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A mixed martial arts fighter, who briefly fought in America’s UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), has surprised fans by revealing he once turned to gay sex work to help fund his athletic ambitions.
Japanese MMA star Yoshinori Horie, 26, posted a statement to his Twitter revealing what happened.
He said that five years ago, aged 21, a friend told him he could earn easy money by giving a “handjob” to someone in Shibuya, a region in Tokyo.
Horie was led to believe it would be easy money, but said: “I was deceived in various ways.” However, “I didn’t have the money and I really wanted to do martial arts on my own.”
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He says he earned 20,000 yen (approx. $175) in less than an hour, which is more than he would earn from two days of work.
5年前友達といる時に渋谷で手コキされるだけでお金をもらえると声をかけられてついて行ったけどあんなAVみたいな感じと思わんやった！笑
しっかりとしたモザイクで顔を隠すと言われてあんな感じじゃないように説明されたけど色々と騙された笑
お金がなくてどうしても自分の力で格闘技をしたかった！— Yoshinori Horie 堀江圭功 (@yossy05101) December 26, 2021
He continued in a second tweet, “I was able to face martial arts in a short time, exceeding the amount of 2 days of part-time work that I do for 8 hours while standing! It’s pretty painful now, but as long as I’m alive I can chase my dreams! And I like women, not gays! I’ve done the money to live to do martial arts!”
Horie made his one appearance in the UFC in 2019, where he was defeated by Hakeem Dawodu. He has enjoyed a successful 2021, winning his last three fights in the Rizin Fighting Federation (Rizin FF), a Japanese mixed martial arts league. It’s believed that he is eyeing a return to the UFC.
It’s unclear why he chose to reveal the information now, but many fans were supportive, thanking him for his honesty and saying he’d done nothing to be embarrassed about.
“Forget it and concentrate on your practice,” said one. Another said, “The past is the past!”
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Kangol2
Many people turn to sex work to make ends meet and if he’s an adult, engaging with consenting adults, and not being coerced or compelled to engage in sex with others, especially non-consenting adults or minors, it should not be anything to be ashamed about. It’s great that he feels comfortable sharing this and I hope he does well in whatever league he participates in.
ShiningSex
gay sex is definitely NOT in his past.
that being said, many people fall on hard times but don’t do “sex work” to “get by”. There are plenty of other things to do. Sex work isn’t something to be proud of but I get some people resort to it because it’s faster cash than most others, but call it what it is.
Res1
I agree with @ShiningSex. People have more respect for sex work than they do blue collar work nowadays and it’s all because people feel like that type of work is beneath them, which is very ironic. What it really speaks to is laziness and the desire for fame and fortune by any means necessary. I can’t respect any straight man who turns trick to feed himself and his family instead of working 2-3 laborious jobs and still having his self-respect. Sorry, not sorry, it’s a total cop out. Children are cruel and one could potentially set their children up for the worst middle school/high school experience ever.
Cam
@Res1
I see the right wing troll account has a new name so it can come in and spout off that people are lazy for wanting to be paid.
Here’s a thought sweetie, maybe employees aren’t “Lazy”, maybe executives and CEOs that take tens of millions in bonuses while refusing to pay a living wage are “Greedy”.
Article after Article shows that the second companies rage their wages all of a sudden the worker shortage disappears.
As always,, your troll game is sad and weak.
Tad
Would it not have been more appropriate and less snarky to have simply said, “I respect and honor my gay fans, but I am straight” instead of the dumb-ass, “I like women, not gays!”? I’ve known lots of guys over the years who engaged in gay sex acts for money to help fund their livelihood, but they were always at least Bi. Wondering why this “straight” guy didn’t have sex with women for money since he loves them so much, rather than to give hand jobs to strange men?
SeanF
It would’ve been nicer, but not everyone’s nice. I think a lot of straight guys in this situation feel they need to express some revulsion in order to feel like they’re still on the right side of being straight. I look at as immaturity.
And he’s so hot, I am totally give him a pass. Haha
Rodun
Exactly what I was thinking. I am getting tired of all that crap that is gay for pay. If you are aroused having gay sex you are in some place in the grayscale, but you aren’t totally straight. If you are 100% straight do like others heterosexual guys do. There are a lot of women doing porn.
Al
English isn’t his first language. It’s unfair to criticize him for his choice of English phrases.
Creamsicle
1. It could be a translation issue.
2. Japan, despite how bubbly and cute its pop culture exports are, is an extremely socially conservative country. Regressive attitudes are common.
Inspector 57
I don’t think there’s a big number of women looking to pay for sex with a man. Whereas there’s an easily accessible pool of men who’ll pay decently for it.
Mack
I’d tap him.
nitejonboy
Me too, or watch him with others, he could do porn for good money!
ShiningSex
ewwww
nitejonboy
I’d rather see him in gay porn, lol…MMA is way too violent for such a pretty boy…Jesus, all this guilt over one handjob?! Me thinks he doth protest too much anyone ?
Essie
I think it was more than one handjob. He said he earned $175 in an hour for doing a handjob. That amount of money wouldn’t fund his career. He probably did a lot more than that. I think he is talking about it now because someone has a photo of him or someone has given an interview about his sex work and it’s about to be published. Otherwise, why bother to talk about your past? It’s not like he’s a big star.
Openminded
Essie, I’d say you hit the nail on the head.
azjeff17
Handjobs for $175? I’m so sure.
moretruth
Sounds like he’s just announcing that he’s back in business. ???
Creamsicle
Anyone else find it funny that his name is Horie?
Openminded
I missed that. As someone here often says, that’s Hilarious.
Steven Roussos
OK, so…… Who knows his gay porn star name or title of video(s) he appeared in?
(Someone had to ask!)
ShiningSex
Had to???? Hahahahahahahahaha!!!! Guess he HAD TO pretend to like it too.
Girl bye!!!!
Mister Dawson
I don’t get why we stigmatized sex among consenting ADULTS. What you do, what you watch, how you find pleasure as long as you r not hurting anyone isn’t any of my business! But if you feel you need to apologize for having sex with another CONSENTING adult to me is the issue.
Res1
That type of thinking is very dangerous considering that gay men are being erased from an industry that was made for us out of necessity. We relied on gay sex work because we were being discriminated against in the work place for being gay. So when you say that to an industry that not only employees but caters to gay for pay actors while the openly gay actors usually have horror stories of how they were poorly treated on set and so many of them retiring because they make less than their G4P costars it’s so much more than two consenting adults having sex, it’s erasure at its finest. Let’s not talk about how gay for pay actors have ruined gay porn and how studios like Men couldn’t careless about servicing quality gay porn to a gay base because the owners are straight men who own straight porn companies and decided to buy up all the gay ones to monopolize the market and it shows because the actors in the movie can’t perform without staring off of screen to look at the monitors playing straight porn and this in all visible in the screen for more than one take. So yeah, it matters a lot.
jackscott
As long as he was an adult who cares? It should be legal everywhere, people need to stop being prudes.
baddod
This article is not accurately translating what the guy’s tweets say. He said he got paid money to *get* a handjob while being filmed for gay porn. He says they told him that it wouldn’t be possible to see his face as they would mask it, so when he says he was deceived he means it probably was possible to identify him.
Japanese gay porn has tons of labels which focus entirely on showing straight guys getting pleasured to various degrees from handjobs up and they sometimes show them literally picking them up on the street, taking them somewhere and handing them cash to get jerked/sucked by a dude. (Or more rarely a woman who is framed out of shot so as not to distract gay viewers.)
Creamsicle
Professional athletes very often struggle in their early career unless they come from money, or get sponsored very early on. It shouldn’t be a surprise that someone who was struggling did sex work. At least he didn’t rob or cheat anyone.