Zane from Sean Cody (his tattoo is hiding underneath that armpit and flexed bicep)
A recently released scene from mainstream gay adult studio Sean Cody featured Zane — a muscular, furry, bisexual guy who has a tattoo on his right shoulder of the confederate flag within the state of Texas.
Embarrassed by the prospect of promoting a guy with a racist tattoo, the studio photoshopped it out of Zane’s photos and blurred it out of his two video scenes.
Gay adult industry journalist Zachary Sire criticized Sean Cody for featuring Zane at all (link NSFW):
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The model, “Zane,” having a Confederate Flag tattoo is bad enough, but you know what’s actually worse? Sean Cody being fully aware that the flag is considered a racist symbol, choosing to put the guy in their videos anyway, and then haphazardly trying to hide it from viewers. If Sean Cody really believed in their content, they should’ve just released this scene without blurring the racist symbol. What are they afraid of?
What’s interesting is that Zane is hardly the first gay adult performer to have racist tattoos. In June 2016, Sire discovered that Naked Sword and CockyBoys performer Cameron Diggs had German iron crosses and SS bolts tattooed on his body (link NSFW).
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Diggs later claimed that he’s not a white supremacist but added, “When it comes to having kids, I prefer to stay inside my race,” which is… (ahem) kinda racist. His mixed race scene partner Mickey Taylor later claimed that Diggs wouldn’t have topped him if he was racist, but that’s nonsense. (Note: Having sex with people of other races doesn’t make you not racist.)
Gay adult studio College Dudes also released a scene in February 2018 featuring Michael, a tattooed guy with a confederate flag design on his hand (link NSFW). Michael later told Twitter followers that his tattoo was a “mistake” he made in prison when he was “led astray.”
Naturally, the reason that studios release these scenes is because these men are interested in performing on camera and once the scene is shot, it seems pointless to just sit on the footage. But considering that the gay adult industry remains dominated by white guys, it seems particularly gross that studios would use white performers with racist tattoos for any reason at all.
Before any of you commenters start talking about how the confederate flag is merely a symbol of southern “heritage, not hate,” you can stop right there. It flew over states that supported the slavery of black people and was re-popularized in the U.S. by white southerners who opposed racial integration. So save that bull for your momma and keep that mess out of our adult videos, whether blurred or not.
Chrisk
Big whoop. Was it insensitive yeah sure. Moving on..
Caramelo
How did I know your inbred ass would be the first to comment
Chrisk
Wow. A ra*ist troll hates me. Whatever will I do. Lol
Cam
“”His mixed race scene partner Mickey Taylor later claimed that Diggs wouldn’t have topped him if he was racist,””
Um, lots of slave owners had sex with their slaves. And guess, what, they were racist.
Kangol2
Lots of slave owners RAPED their slaves. And yes, they were racists and white supremacists. Example #1: Thomas Jefferson! Lots of racists and white supremacists post-slavery also committed rapes and assaults on Black people. Example #2: Strom Thurmond! Who hid his half-Black daughter from the media while denouncing integration and the mixing of races!
Cam
@Kangol2
Exactly, and yes, thanks for the correction. It’s like calling Sally Hemmings a mistress instead of a slave he raped.
elebeaujd
I’m from the South. Lots of idiots there get these tattoos because its “their heritage,” like it’s some sort of symbol of the South. Usually they have no idea the implications. I had a flag on the antennae of my first truck because of that same reason. Now, as an adult, I understand what it stood for in a historical context and would never allow that anywhere near me.
So let’s lighten up a bit. He could be an idiot like I was.
botolani
What a load of bull. You knew exactly what the “implications” were. You knew exactly what “southern pride” meant. It’s just you were in the racial majority and it suited you to fit in. You took it down because you got called out on it. Let’s be real here. At least you’re admitting you’re an idiot
Cam
Lighten up? What exactly hasn’t been light in the thread?
shakes_head
Ok, but this is more about the shitty decisions of Sean Cody than whoever this model is. The studio should’ve known better, in spite their history of racially exclusive casting.
elebeaujd
Botolani, I’m sure you were so “woke” at 15, unlike I was. I wanted to fit in with the rest of the kids in my small town, so I went along with everything they did, including flying the confederate flag. We were Southern, that’s what you did at that age at that time. And if that kid got that tattoo yesterday, well yeah, you should know better. If I’d gotten it at 15 (like some other unfortunate tattoos I got at that age), would you immediately brand me as a racist or as an idiot kid who was doing what everyone else was doing?
You going to blame me or my backwards parents who didn’t correctly explain ANYTHING. You don’t get it, clearly.
UlfRaynor
I was born and raised in the south (southern Georgia to be precise) and I knew at 15 that it was a racist flag and that was in the 70’s, I was surrounded by people like you, the only difference being, I had black friends and would have never even dreamed of disrespecting them that way.
evanxx
Apparently the author, Daniel Villarreal, doesn’t understand the word “furry”. This ‘model’ is certainly NOT furry, & his boyish face is rather unattractive. Sean Cody must be desperate for performers. I wouldn’t use a model with racist markings in the first place.
PinkoOfTheGange
The battle flag of the Northern Virginia Army never flew over any capital in the Confederacy, although the stars and bars was part of the Confederate flag 2 and 3.
Many in the New South of the late 20th century started to ignore its racist past and use it as a symbol for Southern pride. Its multiple uses on the network TV show “The Dukes of Hazard” is a prime example of how innocuous it had become to the mainstream.
It is only in the last few years that it has, rightly, become taboo.
Sanjo
Not disagreeing completely but the flag was often displayed in the 60s as protest to civil rights marchers and by the KKK.
Wicked Dickie
Isn’t Sean Cody the studio that has only white performers? Nothing to see here, move along.
Zambos271
Bisexual? Hmm…in a few years he’ll regret doing porn and will join a group like Proud Boys.
one more thing
Some people are attracted to white trash so let’s all be open minded!
Aires the Ram
Additionally, it was the Democrats who were against the 13th Amendment, the Republicans in all states concerned at the time, passed it. Same goes for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It’s good to know a bit of history.
From History.com:
Lincoln believed that a constitutional amendment was necessary to ensure the end of slavery. In 1864, Congress debated several proposals. Some insisted on including provisions to prevent discrimination against blacks, but the Senate Judiciary Committee provided the eventual language. It borrowed from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, when slavery was banned from the area north of the Ohio River. The Senate passed the amendment in April 1864.
A Republican victory in the 1864 presidential election would guarantee the success of the amendment. The Republican platform called for the “utter and complete destruction” of slavery, while the Democrats favored restoration of states’ rights, which would include at least the possibility for the states to maintain slavery. Lincoln’s overwhelming victory set in motion the events leading to ratification of the amendment. The House passed the measure in January 1865 and it was sent to the states for ratification. When Georgia ratified it on December 6, 1865, the institution of slavery officially ceased to exist in the United States.
mojo
Of course you know the “Democrats” of 1864 are today’s Republicans; the Republicans of that period are represented by the current Democrats in ideology. Please take note of that historical flip-flop. You argument is like saying the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a/k/a North Korea, is a democracy loving state. LOL. Hanging your hat on a label makes your viewpoint silly.
Creamsicle
An adult film performer has made a poor and permanent decision about their body, you say? Tell me it isn’t so! Who will the children look up to now?!
bluberybandit
Sex sells, period. Haven’t we all made mistakes? Quit crying about every single, little thing that hurts your feelings. Wah-Wah!
bushslag
Spoken like a true, card-carrying, white privileged male that has never had to face racist iconography a day in his life! How rare that you’d have that view!
bjm123
You forgot your hood….Besides, what an unattractive picture of you. UGH.