Just last week, gay adult performer Markie More officially retired, and now he’s already gone and joined “Fight The New Drug,” a Mormon-run group that opposes sexually explicit adult content.
In his retirement announcement issued via Twitter, More wrote:
“I’ve decided that I’m officially done with the adult industry. I will be deleting both my OnlyDans and JustForFans accounts one month from today…. If you’re wondering, I’ve quit because I can no longer promote lustful and deviant behavior. Lust is a monster, and the more you feed it, the hungrier it becomes.
Thank you everyone for your wishes of wellness. Let it be known that I’m doing better right now than I have in all of my 26 years, especially the last six.”
According to Zachary Sire, editor of a gay adult video industry blog (link NSFW), More appeared in 131 scenes on Next Door Studios over the last six years. His retirement came five months after he accused Rocco Fallon, vice-president of production and cinematography at Next Door Studios, of making death threats.
In a recent tweet (below), More shared an image from “Fight the New Drug,” and followed up with other tweets which said:
“I’ve witnessed p*rn destroy numerous people, friendships, relationships, families, etc.
It does far more harm than good for people.
In the past, I’ve told people what they wanted to hear, not what I felt to be true or what they needed to hear.
So, instead I told lies, not even good ones either.
I sincerely apologize for misleading you.
I will only speak truths from this point forward.”
— Mark More (@markiemore) May 18, 2019
“Fight the New Drug” considers adult content “a deadly drug that kills everything human and everything intimate in a relationship.” The group cites studies that allegedly link adult content to increased misogyny, depression, sexual dissatisfaction, low self-esteem and a lack of empathy for sexual assault victims.
Related: Hawaii and Arizona are considering bills to censor online adult content
While the group claims that it’s a non-religious and non-legislative non-profit, its rhetoric is influenced by the anti-adult content movement which has sought to declare adult videos as a “public health crisis” in state legislatures. Opponents say such legislative declarations simply pave the road for future efforts to prohibit adult content online.
MikeE
I’m not sure what this article is for. Is it meant to further demonstrate that porn “actors” are dimbulbs?
Well, this guy with his stone-age fairy tales (with the added ridiculous inventions by the great fraud artist Joseph Smith “dum dum dum dum dumb”) is just more proof that there are still LOTS of incredibly stupid and gullible people in this world who can’t accept anything other than spoonfed easy answers to any questions they can’t answer themselves.
Steven R
It is very wrong of you to say these people are following stone-age fairy tales. It’s factually wrong and disrespectful. Many of these fairy tales were made up when we were well into the bronze age. And, the reimagining of some of them has continued for thousands of years.
Designermax
One thing I’ve some to understand, is that like what we are probably seeing here, many male porn actors get spooked severely! And like substance abuse addicts, they end up swinging from one pendulous extreme to the diametric opposite to another. They leave no room for “gray areas, ” balance, or any other view point other than their own! They, in their minds are always unclarifiably in the right. Some outwardly express it in public, other not so much… Examples: Jack Wrangler… AIDS hit, he turns to the company of a much older straight woman, Margaret Whiting. David Popoleo (a.k.a: Tom Katt). Joins a seminary, gets spooked by meth adfdiction, does NOT disavow his gay side, but claims being Bi, and again… Marries a woman!
gimmesum
markie who? I had to look him up. I also read the back story on why he quit porn. seems like he’s using the Mormon thing to protect himself from this Rocco guy. chances are he doesn’t really believe in any of that anti-porn rubbish. I bet there’s a cute Mormon boy he’s into…I give it 6 months til boredom sets in then he’s gone. He’s mostly top, so his need to fulfill the dominant alpha male will no doubt steer him away from the “latter-day” beaten path. he sounds lost. I hope he’ll be alright in the long run.
Topazme
And that is why you should hire actual gay men to do porn who love having sex with other men instead of gay for pay men who hate having gay sex and quite often are there because of financial troubles and personal troubles…..and when their life goes further shit they blame it on gay culture and porn industry because they need someone to blame for their own mistakes…PATHETIC..
GayNOTQueer
I agree with most of what you said, except the straight part. More like deeply in the denial closeted queens trying to save face by claiming to be ‘straight’
DamiansFire
Where did it say in the article that he was straight ?
GayNOTQueer
@DamiansFire, oh so the Mormons allows gays in all their flaming glory?
Chrisk
Yeah, he sure cashed in on it though. I wonder how all those jag offs that paid for his lifesyle through Justforfans feels? He’s so hot. Lol
He sounds like he’s ready for the loony bin. First the paranoid delusions of everyone being after him and now this. Yep. A great new spokesman for a religious campaign if I’ve ever seen. Next up will be a going after masturbation. Mormons are big opponents of that too.
sfhally
Still cashing in–why wait a month to delete his account?
DamiansFire
They don’t get paid much actually.
Brian
I’m guessing he wants to make sure that anyone who has paid gets the full month that they paid for. And that way nobody has to deal with refunds. It’s considerate, not greedy.
IWantAFullBeard
Brian – sure. Hha
GayNOTQueer
But Queerty! I thought you LOVE your straight men? I thought you PREACH the gospel of FLUIDITY? What? It doesn’t make you horny when that post modernist crap you spew that keeps the fantasy of the straight guy going gay, has the potential to fuel, and vindicate the Religious Right?
Tsk, tsk, so much for those arguments that lack consistency.
GayNOTQueer
And yet here you are at a publication that churns our masturbatory material about straight men and the gay ones that sniff their butts.
Oh the irony!
Chrisk
Yawn. Now if only Queerty could make restricting your IP address their top priority.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Why do these lunatics feel entitled to dictate what other people do? It’s like all the right wing nutbag smcubags have nothing better than tell others how to live their lives. You don’t like porn? Fine don’t watch it. You don’t like Gay marriage? Fine don’t marry a Gay.
Just leave others the fcuk alone!!
Brian
As opposed to the left wing, who are all about letting people say and do whatever they want?
truthseeker
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
You don’t like guns? Don’t own one
You don’t like my opinion? Go away
That’s right, you want to ban those things
IWantAFullBeard
He is giving a month until he deletes his accounts. Why wait a month? Lol
lkeels
Pretty sure you have to with those sites…due to refunds, chargebacks, etc.
Kangol2
He wants those $ up till the last minute he switches to his homophobic cult program.
Tombear
In order to be a pornstar, psychologically, you have to have pathologically something wrong with you in MOST cases. This guy is another psychologic nut case. Probably read about him committing suicide. Why else would former pornstars preach about how horrible the porn industry is. It must be an absolute party to work for people like Michael Lucas.
Vince
Was this part of a recognized study or did you just pull that out of your ass Tom? I’m being serious here.
dwes09
Please link to the study your comment is drawn from. And since you use obviously scientific diagnostic terms such as “psychologic nut case” and “psychologically, you have to have pathologically something wrong”, it is obviously not just a baseless judgement!
Porn doesn’t seem like it would attract the most stable people, but you cannot state that as a fact unless you have actual data. And for each person who brings dysfunction and drug problems to the porn industry with them there seem to be as many who make a real career out of it going from performer to producer or director.
Juanjo
I have a good friend who used to do gay porn. He worked for Active Duty, Corbin Fisher, Next Door, and several other studios. Back around 5 years ago he and I went to dinner in Orlando and he told me that he was pissed at Markie, as were a number of other porn performers. Markie thought he was the diva and ruled the set. If he thought someone was getting more attention than he was on set, he would do whatever he could to sabotage the “offender”. In my friend’s case, he was a well built, ex-marine with a great personality and Markie thought he was getting a little too much attention during a shoot on the 1st day of a two-week shooting schedule. [Studios often schedule a group of performers for a week or two week period in which they film multiple scenes with various other performers.] So Markie “accidentally” bit my friend’s penis just barely breaking the skin which meant no more work during the scheduled shoots for my friend. [The studio had a strict rule on open sores or wounds on performers.]
So I am thinking that Michael Lukas had finally had enough of Markie’s bull and canned him. Since he had pretty much burned his bridges elsewhere, he now has a new “job”.
Vince
Thanks for the background and not knowing enough about him I didn’t want to jump to any conclusions. Looks like he burned his bridges up pretty well with the accusations and then hearing stories like this. No doubt his justforfans site dried up as well. I can also see new opportunity here for a newfound status and maybe even a new book about redemption through Jesus BS.
Jaroslaw
Juanjo -Even though your friend’s name doesn’t impact your story, I find it amusing you don’t name him. Porn performers by definition are not anonymous, thousands maybe millions have seen him/her. So since you’re naming Markie in this post, I can’t see why you wouldn’t name your friend. You’re posting anonymously after all.
darklight413
Religion is for people too lazy or too stupid to think for themselves. It’s a victim mentality that teaches you that your problems are caused by external forces instead of teaching you to own your own decisions. He screwed up his life and now he wants to blame someone else. So disgustingly typical.
Jaroslaw
dark – religion has been a part of every civilization that ever existed. I don’t think the Egyptians or Mayans or the majority of any civilization has been composed of either lazy or stupid people. Yes, people have fought over religion and religion has done some bad things. It has also done many great things. If there was no religion, and we know this from the clannish nature of human beings, people would kill each other for any reason. All of the tribe has brown eyes, this blue eyed person must be the devil etc.
xanadude
So….. why are you on this site?
lord.krath
Sad. But whatever, right? We have actual gay men being brutally victimized for something that isn’t a choice and then we have this guy complaining about his choices in life and the impact they have had. Move on. There will be more desperate (or not so desperate) men willing to be exploited and not regret one iota of it.
azjeff17
Well, that’s it for me…. I’ll never polish my knob to another of his scenes. He eased never a fav anyway.
pharaon.em.joe
So he made the money and now f*ck it all?
shanfrina
… As a former Mormon of 15-Yrs., Excommunicated for “Being Gay,” I’ve known many sad Cases like this Fool. Especially “Closeted LDS” at BYU, where I earned a B.A. in Broadcast-Journalism. (’73) Even did a 2-Yr. Mission to the Pacific-Northwest. (’70-’72) & personally knew the Pres. of the so-called “Church” for many Yrs. This former “Porn Star” is really messed up to join this Mormon grp. He needs professional Counseling, not a H8-filled “Religion!”
Ingenuity1
This guy has been permanently injured by the porn industry but thankfully he got out of that killing field soon enough. Best luck to his new endeavor.
Stephen
As in ‘Two and a Half Men’ … don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Are you giving I’ll gotten gains to the church! Are you ending membership and old streams of revenues or royalties?
Cut the crap!
Raging against the industry is dishonest. Disabled adults are never exciting choices as lovers or just for a quickie at a bathhouse. So porn is a last resorttofwel and stimulate 9nes sexuality in moderation.
I think that this performer shows a complete lack of gratitude for his past and will therefore will be doomed to repeat it. If h3 has not burned all his bridges. Mormons are anti-LGBTQ+.
Ask Chasing Dragons lead-singer. Teen suicides are climbing extremely high. What he is doing is contributing to guilt, blame and shame over sexuality outside the box.
This is interesting. Mormons believe one man saw solid gold gospels and reburied them concerning. Gospels of Christ wandering the USA. But no one ever saw them except this one founding member.
And alien energy is to be banished from our bodies via Scientology. Had he chosen a credible non-fringe religious choice I would respect his choice. This is just grand standing, drama see,I gotta, self-shaming externalizer projections of his own interpretations of his feelings about his past work. Yawn!
Religion and Sex have little to do with each other unless you are Taoist, Tantric or directed by an extremely well respected Rabbi.
Brian
So did Queerty finally manage to get rid of HereIam for good? He would never pass up the opportunity to clutch his pearls about the disgusting porn industry and praise this guy for finding religion. I haven’t seen DCGuy calling everyone antiLGBT trolls for awhile either, now that I think about it.
fur_hunter
Hey, Brian………Did you ever get to check out the website I told you about? JoeMyGod? You might not be able to get on right now as he is having problems with a malware on the site. Yeah. Personally, I believe it was some religious fundamentalist Hacker who go on it and created the problems. Keep trying as it is a terrific site and there are articles on major issues. I don’t think you will be disappointed.
DarthKitsune
It sounds like Markie More is going through something, and I hope he gets whatever help he needs, or thinks he needs. One point in his favour is that he has not turned around and started condemning the gay “lifestyle” as a dangerous disease or whatever. Not yet, anyway.
crashnburn121
MTE
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Can she be any more of a drama queen???
There are many dented cans on the porn shelf. However many use it as a fairly easy way to better themselves. I have a friend who overcome a nightmare childhood spending the majority of his pre teen years in a hospital bed. He was determined to become a surgeon to help others as he was. With no family resources and not wanting to be burdened with hundreds of thousands of dollars in med school debt he did porn to pay for his education.
He now runs a very successful surgical practice and never denies his past. Recently a patient advised if his hands were as talented as his mouth, he would be in good hands :-p
Donston
First, let me say that being anti porn is not the same thing as being anti gay. Though I understand why some are coming to that conclusion considering he’s connected himself to a Mormon group. But perhaps this is a more “progressive” group of Mormons.
Today I checked out a couple of interviews he gave while still doing porn. In those interviews he didn’t embrace a gay identity or any identity in fact. He did say he was a part of the “lgbtq community”, and he talked about how most of his sexual thoughts and passions were towards guys. Altogether, he just comes off like a damaged soul. Someone who may be sexually homo-leaning but looks at “gayness” as a fetish or paraphilia due to not having substantial affections, romantic passions, relationship instincts towards his gender and/or someone who contends with internalized homophobia and/or someone who doesn’t know how to psychologically handle his contradictions and fluidity and/or an extreme narcissist who hops on whatever bandwagon for the sake of attention and validation.
There are problematic elements with porn and within the porn industry that people don’t like to talk about. But depending on religion to fight your anti-porn agenda is just as problematic, perhaps more so.
Mark
He is not straight as some let on. He loves sex with men but the Mormon religion is making him feel guilty…
Donston
I’m looking at his interviews, and there’s a persistent hesitation as far as being straightforward about much how into dudes he is. Also, “loving sex with guys” doesn’t really mean that you see yourself as “gay” or even “queer” or even “not straight”. And it certainly doesn’t mean that you “like” guys, that your respect gay identifying men, that you have affections and romantic passions towards dudes, relationship ambitions towards guys or that you’re comfortable with where you are on spectrum. It doesn’t mean any of that. And so far his crusade seems to be more focused on the porn industry than on homosexual behaviors or gay identifying people, though I wouldn’t be surprised if that was his next step.
You can’t blame the Mormons. He’s a grown ass man who decided to embrace doing porn and then embraced a crusade against porn. Everything he’s done has been his choice. He likely didn’t even grow up around Mormons. So, whatever struggles he’s enduring he’s gonna have to be the one to push himself through.
GayNOTQueer
@Donston you’re kidding right?
thisismylife247
He’s only 26? Yikes!
Geeker
Is anyone really surprised anymore when a porn star is revealed to be a psychologically unstable dumbass?
Donston
I don’t understand putting these people on pedestals or even expecting them to make sense.
winemaker
Who here’s tired of these ‘holier than thou’ entities? Really this guy just became a born again mormon, well. as my late father used to say ‘well bully for him’, hopefully he’s happy. For the record, porn can be a great alternative to bars and apps which have their share of assholes who play games , waste time and aren’t serious. Also with porn, there’s no rejection and STD’s but on the other hand, it’s a lonely highway for the most part.
KerryB
Morons, I mean mormons, aka, The CULT of jesus christ of latter day saints, is one of the most pervasive and contagious forms of mental illness around. They are about money and power and the only faith they have is blind obedience of a certified nut-job that saw some magic tablets. WTF is WRONG with these people?
crashnburn121
He’ll be back…
GayNOTQueer
Exactly. Or else sucking dick in stalls in between mission work…
just me
Was he in the mormon series? if yes… maybe he liked the thought of what they do behind closed doors?
but on a serious note, people do lots of things in life, and unfortunately attack their previous selves in order to justify their new choice…
inbama
Just looked him up on XVideos. Given his equipment, why on earth was he cast as a top?
Michael1500
Yeah, Markie has that crazy look out of his eye, just like my congressman does. (It’s a known fact in Washington that my congressman is crazy, although the realization hasn’t yet sunk in with the local hardened conservatives, after he drew a direct comparison of homosexuality to bestiality.) It is hard to determine just when Markie and my congressman crossed over the river, but that faraway light in their eyes tells the raw truth. I doubt whether either will return.
hotshot70
He just proved that male porn stars can be brainless himbos.
Designermax
One thing I’ve some to understand, is that like what we are probably seeing here, many male porn actors get spooked severely! And like substance abuse addicts, they end up swinging from one pendulous extreme to the diametric opposite to another. They leave no room for “gray areas, ” balance, or any other view point other than their own! They, in their minds are always unclarifiably in the right. Some outwardly express it in public, other not so much… Examples: Jack Wrangler… AIDS hit, he turns to the company of a much older straight woman, Margaret Whiting. David Popoleo (a.k.a: Tom Katt). Joins a seminary, gets spooked by meth adfdiction, does NOT disavow his gay side, but claims being Bi, and again… Marries a woman!
Donston
As I hinted to in my own posts, many of these porn performers do seem to be about extremes. From “I love being the biggest hoe that’s ever existed” to “I’m born again, porn is evil, and I’m looking to settle down with a woman and start a family”. A lot of these guys just have some rather tunnel vision like instincts. A lot don’t seem to know how to deal with their dimensions and/or fluidity. And many just can’t rid of feeling constant emptiness no matter what they identity as, who they’re having sex with or who they’re dating. And their social agendas tend to lack nuance. This is also partially why I don’t give sex and attractions as much weight as others give them. Not only can those things shift with time, but there’s a ton of different aspects to orientation and a ton of different things that give people contentment and different reasons why someone is fulfilled in a relationships. In general, putting these guys on pedestals and trying to make them “gay icons” is almost never a smart thing to do.
Porn itself is not inherently “evil”. However, I do feel porn addictions are real and can negatively affect people. And “porn culture” is overall fairly problematic and ratio wise it tends to affect “queers” more. But instead of focusing on the nuances, he’s just thrown himself to religious shaming, which ultimately doesn’t even help his cause.
Donston
Also, Tom Katt is one of a few performers I know a bit about. From what I can recall he never said that he was he “gay”, never claimed he had same-sex preferences, never made any anti-homosexual or anti-gay remarks and never even made anti porn remarks. He simply moved on from porn and married a chick. He said that he dated mostly men for only a few years of his life and that was mostly because he was worried that a woman wouldn’t accept his gay porn career. He claimed his connection to guys was almost entirely sexual as opposed to there being much romantic and emotional passion, relationship contentment and desire for affections and love. (And honestly, based off of his clips I wonder if he was even sexually that into dudes). So, him settling down with a woman makes sense. He was always a “mostly straight” guy who indulged “gay porn culture” for a while primary to indulge narcissism, for funds, for fun and because he felt it was easier for a time.
There are likely more examples of the “extreme” than him.
canuckdave
America is a schizophrenic country. On one hand you produce most of the world’s pornography. It’s a huge industry. On the other hand you have the religious right trying to impose their values through legislature to curb pornography. Queerty is often reveals hypocriasy in some of the religious right who are outed as gay. No other developed country would be having this discussion. Adults are treated as such and allowed their interests so long as there is no harm. I wish Americans would shut up or better yet drift away somewhere else. A very annoyed Canadian.