Rylan Knox, a popular adult film performer, has been found dead of an apparent suicide. Knox died after hanging himself in his boyfriend’s apartment on April 29. His body was found later the same day.
News of Knox’s death was confirmed by website Str8UpGayPorn, which also adds that Knox lived in Florida, was a relative newcomer to the adult film world but had already performed in multiple scenes for Falcon, GayCastings, NakedSword, and Hot House in the past year. The site also notes that Knox was well-liked by his co-stars, directors and fans. No other details, including Knox’s age, are known at this time.
H/t: Edge
Beaver Benton
How very sad 🙁 Always sad to hear of anyone’s death, especially by suicide. Life is precious but I understand this world is often difficult to live in, hope he can rest easy now.
Mario Estrada
It’s so sad that a lot gay porn stars are committing suicide ð??£
James Reyes
Either they are killing themselves or ending up in prison for life. Sad 🙁
Christopher Trombley
Bummer
Clark35
Rest in peace. I’m not sure who this guy is though? I’m not surprised he was in porn and killed himself I feel bad for his family, friends, and BF.
Stache99
@Clark35: Lots of non porn people commit suicide too. You just never hear about it.
Zack Walston
This is so sad. The lack of love in the world, too many drug addictions. If there are any porn stars in need of real intimate plutonic friendship then feel free to contact me and we can share life experience and conversations.
VampDC
Never heard of him before but always ad when anyone commits suicide. The porn industry needs to stop being glorified and tricking these young kids that its an actual career.
stanhope
Of course I am sorry to learn this news. It is noteworthy that so many people envy porn stars but have no idea what goes on “behind the curtain.” Live your own joy, overcome your own challenges, be grateful for what you have whatever it is. You never know what’s going on in someone else’s life.
Dan Fitzgerald
Ron Moore
RIP
bottom250
This is so sad. I am in tears.
jwtraveler
@James Reyes: Or, like the vast majority of them, they’re living their lives like everyone else.
Billy Budd
Poor guy. Being a porn star isn’t easy. Do you Remember that Ryan Idol also jumped from a balcony and almost killed himself? There are many cases of drug addictions, mental health problems including depression among pornstars. They suffer.
Tommysole
So many gay porn stars commit suicide, accidental drug overdoses, AIDS, AIDS related illnesses, murdered, so sad.
Craig Marker
Sad. Grow up and get help.
Johnny Grooms
So sad.
jason smeds
Gay porn is a form of prostitution. All porn is a form of prostitution. To get to the mindset of performing in porn, you have to have reached a certain low ebb in your mindset. Expensive habits such as drug use and alcohol often drive people into this profession.
It’s truly sad that a young life like Rylan’s has ended so early. I wish he had had some guidance to take him away from that porn path.
darian
@jason smeds: Save your bullshit for the winter months ok. Those who are quick to condemn porn are usually the main people who watch it. I swear to god you should become a gay Republican senator because your so full of shit.
Mary Nana Moyer
yes, it’s so sad!
Alex Cameron
Another sad loss if any wants UTube and look up HIV porn stars dead there’s a moving sad memorial to all those who have passed over died from HIV or taken their own lives either drugs or suicide just think when you’re watching porn are we to blame for some if not majority of unsafe sex yes gay men bearback in this industry I think so practice SAFESEX or become HIV another statistics or dead before your time love yourself and find that someone who will respect you and LOVE you for who you are Alex Cameron
James Benjamin
wow. Sadly – worse for his boyfriend. He has to live with that it happened at his place.
jason smeds
darian,
Oh, don’t be so ridiculous. Porn is undoubtedly a sleazy, exploitative profession. It’s prostitution, nuff said.
Billy Budd
Of course it is prostitution. But who said prostitution was wrong to begin with? You guys need to put your feet on the ground, for chrissakes.
darian
@jason smeds: Ha ok let’s say I buy your bullshit for half a second. What the fuck it’s wrong with prostitution if they are there of their own free will?
Phil Lauderdale
How does one verify if this is bulls$&t or not?
Richard Dietz
Damn wonder what made him do it i bet lots of us just dont talk but wonder y
throwslikeagirl
Very sad that anyone, let alone someone this young and beautiful, should take their life. We enjoy them on porn fleetingly, but are enjoying their beauty combined with our fantasy. Really, it’s just like any other media idol, be they on tv or the movies or just in the tabloids. We’ve no idea what their lives or inner demons are really like.
Tobi
I have to laugh at the usual prissy queens wringing their hands and crying “oh, the sleaze, the sleaze”. Hundreds of schoolchildren commit suicide in America every year, thousands more working in ‘designer’ sweatshops and labour camps around the globe kill themselves. In some countries 1-in-5 will attempt to end their lives prematurely. Porn isn’t the problem, suicide is.
Tim Brown
RIP baby
Transiteer
Adult film star or not, I find it heart wrenchingly sad, that someone – anyone – is in a position of despondency, where they choose to end their own life. It’s such a waste of a life, and such an opportunity for a happy life missed. He must’ve been suffering greatly. So sorry . . . .
Bailey Bednar
for a moment there, i was worried. Home ownership takes a retail div when somebody dies there. Luckily, it’s only an apartment.
onthemark
It seems weird to blame porn in this case. Hanging himself in his boyfriend’s apartment – that’s an intensely personal way to do it. Far more likely it was sparked by something in the relationship, rather than having anything to do with his porn work.
@Bailey Bednar: Ugh. That’s not funny.
Realitycheck
I hope he has finally found peace………
James Hart
Certain lifestyles will really be the death of some people.
Stache99
@Transiteer: The frontal lobe part of our brains controls reasoning things out. If it’s not developed you act before you think more then not. The twenties it’s still developing for allot of people.
Paco
Has anything been reported linking his suicide to his porn career? Is it too much of a stretch for people to consider that maybe other issues, that had nothing to do with porn, could have been the reason he felt he needed to end his young life? I mean, a lot of people, in a multitude of professions, commit suicide. I guess it just isn’t newsworthy if an accountant ends his life.
Kangol
I’d never heard of him, but it’s still sad news to me. It does seem like several major porn stars have committed suicide over the last few years, including Arpad Miklos, Wilfred Knight, and Roman Ragazzi, to name three.
There was a spate of deaths from HIV, suicide and other causes, like a heart attack in the case of Erik Rhodes, in 2012.
Very sad, and I wish there were more mental health support for people out there, no matter what their profession; decriminalization of sex work, which should not be illegal; and comprehensive physical health support for everyone, which the ACA is starting to make possible, though so many people are still not covered by it because of GOP opposition to Medicaid expansion, and so on.
NASER-SAUDI ARABIA
what a poor guy , how sad is that ….
this is what will happen When developed and civilized nations as they claim , allow porn industry….and in the same time they Prohibit human trafficking in their law ,, its a big joke .
these boys are a victims of human corruption in the first world , government corruption in the 1st world , legal corruption ,
They are a victim of non-religious society in the whole world .
How do people feel happy and pleasure when they watch these boys or girls having sex in front of the camera ? do people think that these boys or girls happy during their sex in videos ?? no they are not happy at all , they do it for money only for money .
And funny in the subject that the west governments and non-Muslim communities always asking Muslims to respect human rights and women’s rights, and accuse Muslims and Islam as against humanity and against human rights and against the rights of women ..
but Here we can see their human rights fully reflected in Western laws that allow criminals and evil money owners exploiting boys and girls in prostitution for money.
what a very strange world !!!
thanks a lot to God, wisdom is reflected in the prohibition in Islam for all types of prostitution or human trafficking, rape, or the exploitation of people in sex for money, it applies harsher penalties for the perpetrator of these crimes, which are often death penalty. .
Because it is the religion of justice and mercy to the people, religion of happiness, a religion that does not want any one exploiting the weak and the poor people for his pleasure , and close all the doors of evil..
Barb Kipper
In the gay community, is there some support group to help with these situations, before they can happen?
stadacona
Oh shut the fuck up Nasser in Saudi Arabia..your piece of shit country might throw you in jail for reading this web site or chop your head off for being gay. Islam is the true evil.
Sweetie Pie
Anther one bites the dust
jason smeds
Prostitution is bad, period. One of the reasons it’s bad is because it’s dishonest. It’s dishonest to have sex with someone for the purpose of obtaining money. Completely dishonest.
NASER-SAUDI ARABIA
@stadacona: is that all you got ?? look at your language .. its street language not for respected people …
sorry i cant answer or discuss while your language is soo ugly .
Xzamilio
@Realitycheck: He’s fucking dead, dude. There is no “peace” after death… just death.
Xzamilio
@NASER-SAUDI ARABIA: My ass. America is about as religious as it gets, despite the fact that our nation was the first nation formed under secular laws. Do you see how much of a fight it is to keep religion at bay in America? Don’t try to come out here acting like this is a “non-religious society” and this is the result of that… hell, half of these “stars” come from religious backgrounds and are racked with guilt, often turning to drugs to cope. There is no comparison, though… I’d much rather be over here in fucked up America than the shithole that is the Middle East, which I was deployed to twice.
“Because it is the religion of justice and mercy to the people, religion of happiness, a religion that does not want any one exploiting the weak and the poor people for his pleasure , and close all the doors of evil..”
All religion does is exploit the weak and the poor people and Islam is not even close to being a religion of justice and mercy… it’s the same barbaric antiquated desert woo woo sky daddy bullshit that Judaism and Christianity are, except it hasn’t gone through a much needed reformation. Fuck Muhammad’s winged horse flying dumbass
stadacona
@ Nasser in Saudi Arabia. It’s called freedom of expression..a right no Muslim society will ever know. You Muslims are so backward and think you can push your way into the West and rip us down to your level. Islam is child rape, putting bags on women’s heads, and hanging gays from building cranes.
darian
@jason smeds: Haha what? Your fucking with me right? That’s a very vague answer. How is it dishonest if two grown willing adults make an agreement to have sex and one person is being paid for performing a service it seems like alot of honesty to me. Now you could just man up and say you don’t approve of prostitution and stop peddling your opinions as if they are facts and we all can end this conversation.
NASER-SAUDI ARABIA
I understand completely your defend of this dirt that you call it freedom. Or the sex trade, no matter the name you changed and try to improve it to looks better . its still Human trafficking or white slave remains.this is it .
I understand this completely, because you live in another world is interdependent socially, and non-coherent family affair, where children must leave the house when they reach 18 years old, and probably before that, is completely different from our world .
so , since you like your life , then we dont care , and a many of Rylan`s` will follow and same end sadly 🙁
Chris
@NASER-SAUDI ARABIA: Huh? …. I fail to see how any of your comments are relevant to this young man’s suicide.
As more than one person noted, his suicide took place in hiw boy friend’s apartment. While his death is a tragedy, I feel for the person who found the body.
Louis
My heart breaks for this young man and his loved ones .
RIP Rylan its always tragic regardless of who it is or what someones personal profession is.
Its sad that this kind of thing continues to happen in this world .
Cam
@NASER-SAUDI ARABIA:
Typical, somebody from a nation that says it is a woman’s fault if she gets raped, doesn’t send men to prison for raping young girls and has an abysmal record on human rights and very high suicide rate wants to come in here and use this as an example of another country?
Here is an idea Naser, instead of trying to avoid all that is wrong with your country by pointing the fingers at others, it’s about time you actually dealt with the massive number of problems in Saudi Arabia, including crashing oil prices, enormous human rights violations, legalized rape, etc…
Worry about your own backyard, last I checked, nobody was screaming to get into Saudi Arabia to become a citizen.
NASER-SAUDI ARABIA
@Cam: oooh please stop that scenario …. the same scenario we know since years ,,, when any girl get raped , it will be her fault … oh please stop it …
since you dont live here and check the fact by your self dont judge us ..
the funny part is , That what is happening here is quite the opposite …
the women is protected always by : law .
any guy know that when he try to rape a girl he will get beheaded .
check the news before you judge … dont lesson to your media ,,, they tell you what they want you to hear only .
Bauhaus
@NASER-SAUDI ARABIA:
I can see why you are so touchy:
Saudi Arabia is a destination country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of involuntary servitude and commercial sexual exploitation.[17] Men and women from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sudan, Ethiopia, and many other countries voluntarily travel to Saudi Arabia as domestic servants or other low-skilled laborers, but some subsequently face conditions indicative of involuntary servitude.[17]
Women, primarily from Asian and African countries are trafficked into Saudi Arabia for commercial sexual exploitation;[17] others were kidnapped and forced into prostitution after running away from abusive employers.[17]
Sexual slavery:
Some Saudi men have also used legally contracted “temporary marriages” in countries such as Mauritania, Yemen, and Indonesia as a means by which to sexually exploit migrant workers.[17] Females as young as seven years old are led to believe they are being wed in earnest, but upon arrival in Saudi Arabia subsequently become their husbands’ sexual slaves, are forced into domestic labor and, in some cases, prostitution.[17]
NASER-SAUDI ARABIA
@Bauhaus: there is an old saying says : how did you know it is a big lie ? because it a huge one hahahahaha
as i said your media and press tell you what they need you to know only . come on people wake up .
i been to USA and i experienced there how they Do not know anything about the world .
David Aventura
Interesting.
Dagger Tess
@Beaver Benton: Would you care about someone’s suicide even if you hated them?
Dagger Tess
@Louis: Would you say that still, if he were a bad person?
Dagger Tess
@throwslikeagirl: Would you be sorry if an evil person committed suicide?
Dagger Tess
@Billy Budd: Would you feel sorry for him if he were an evil man?
Dagger Tess
@Zack Walston: Would you say that if he were a bad person?
sailingsam
This is such a sexually repressed society. One should celebrate the beauty of these young men…