The gay porn studio Broke Straight Boys has finally debuted what we presume to be the first episode of the “reality television show” they’ve been touting for over a year.
Originally, the show was supposed to follow gay-for-pay porn performers as they live in a house together, like a Big Brother with orgies and no evictions.
The clip below, which is entirely SFW and actually quite humbling, instead follows one of the studio’s top gay-for-pay models on a trip back home to discuss his gay porn career with his mother, father, and two straight brothers.
A large portion of the episode discusses Paul Canon’s drug overdose, while the rest focuses on his family’s reaction to his work and their explanations of his sexuality. Despite Paul’s reluctance to identify himself as gay or bisexual, he almost perfectly explains bisexuality while describing his sexual attractions.
“I really don’t care about defining my own sexuality. At this point now, I don’t like labels, I can’t stand labels,” he says once his family moves to the topic of assigning him a sexuality. His father believes he may be “homosexual,” to his brothers, he is “gay.” His brothers say they’ve “always felt” Paul was gay, and that “it’s awkward how he tries to hide that.”
Perhaps the most accurate description of his sexuality is the phrase brandished across his t-shirt: “I’m not gay, but $1000 is $1000”. Bless him.
In a confessional, Paul adds:
I guess I would be considered bisexual, [but] the reason I don’t like labels like that is bisexuality has this negative connotation of being confused, and I’m definitely not confused, I mean, I know what I like. I definitely find women attractive, but then there’s certain aspects of men that I find attractive. I don’t think that’s very confusion. I know what I like, and I know what I want…I just can’t stand labels.
Check out the rest below. And don’t knock it till you’ve seen it, because it’s not as painful as it sounds.
And here’s the best part: Now that you know Paul well, you can watch him perform (he’s a top!) in a five-man bareback orgy by clicking here. (nsfw, duh)
h/t Gawker
jjose712
Sorry but gay for pay is a myth.
This guys are bisexual, probably they like more women and only date women in their “normal” life, but they are not straights.
Straights just don’t do gay porn
cflekken
Is “gay for pay” a myth? Yes and no.
The “no” part of the answer is this:At the end of the day, it’s “sex for pay”. If you told a guy (gay or straight) to get off by sticking his dick in a watermelon, 99.9% of the guys would be able to do it. Doesn’t mean that changes his sexuality, does it? It just means that the guy wants to get off. A straight guy doing gay porn just means that the guy wants to get off and can come while having sex with a guy.
The “yes” part of the answer is when a self-proclaimed “gay for pay” actor is able to passionately kiss another guy, do some deep ass rimming, bottom, and taste/swallow semen. Then that’s a completely different story.
cflekken
And, btw, the brother, John, is a total hottie.
jar
@cflekken: Isn’t your position internally inconsistent? It seems to be based solely upon your own demarcation between getting off and being into it. Isn’t it possible that one performing sex for pay would view kissing, etc. in the same way that they view getting off? I would posit that any sexual activity with another man (excluding youthful experimentation) makes one at least bisexual.
Cam
@jar: said…
” I would posit that any sexual activity with another man (excluding youthful experimentation) makes one at least bisexual.”
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Not really, if a broke guy wasn’t into guys but needed money badly, him giving some guy a blow-job doesn’t make him bisexual. IF he isn’t into it, but does that for money it just makes him a guy desperate for money willing to trade a BJ for it.
jar
@Cam: That may be. I would argue that making the choice to make money by giving a man a BJ is the expression of his bisexuality. I agree, it is not the act itself, but the willingness and ability to do it that is informative. Of course, I assume there is no duress (eg, addiction, prison, etc.).
Jacob23
Seems pretty obvious that gay-for-pay includes some guys who are gay but are in denial or who deny it because it is more lucrative to be GFP. It also includes some bisexuals. And it also includes guys who are genuinely straight and who would never be doing anything with a guy if it weren’t for the money. It’s a mix.
What I don’t understand is why BSB would do this kind of documentary-style video. Doesn’t this just undermine their website? The premise of the site is that the models are straight guys who basically come in off the street not to be porn stars but to earn some quick money to get out of a financial jam. It’s a fantasy scenario. By doing background documentaries in which models talk about their “porn careers” and in which they and their family members debate sexual orientation, BSB destroys the fantasy on which its site is built.
DjARD
@Cam: Except the vast majority of broke and poor men, of which there are many, do not do this. If they are this desperate for cash, there are many, many other options. There has to be an impetus of same sex attraction or curiosity. This doesn’t mean they’re bisexual – but it does mean they aren’t straight. If anything I would also say that applies to the youthful experimentation that some men do that involves actual sexual activity with another man.
Even gay, bisexual, and straight is far too narrow a definition to cover the spectrum and complexities of human sexuality. The men in gay-for-pay porn illustrate this. The rise of gay for pay has coincided with a rise in support for LGBT right and acceptance of same sex sexual behavior; it has not, however, led to a change in the way people actually thing about sexuality, privilege, etc. The result is these men having an environment and industry built around them expressing part of their sexuality they would otherwise feel uneasy about showing, using money as a way to cling to heterosexuality identity and express themselves sexually unabated.
It amazes me, though, that BSB is actually allowing this to air. Their site and others like it already stretched the limits of believability (considering many self-identified gay, bisexual, and queer porn stars have appeared on them as a way to get money due to the fetish and glorification of straight men resulting in higher pay), but now they’re actively inviting cameras in to destroy any bit of the illusion that was left, if this video is any indication.
Mike
This whole idea is stupid.
bbg372
Exactly. If one is going to trade sexual favors for money with someone he is not necessarily attracted to, then the sex of that person does not really matter. There is not much difference between sex with a woman one is not attracted to and sex with a man one is not attracted to. Just choose the one who is willing to pay the most. And that is how gay-for-pay works.
DarkZephyr
@jjose712: I don’t think “gay-for-pay” is a myth BUT I do think that may so called gay for payers are either gay or bi. BUT I also think that there are some authentically straight. You just have to read some of the very painful blow by blow descriptions of what actually goes on in the shoots with real straight men. Its not at all sexy. Dozens upon dozens of takes, having to get the straight guy’s penis hard over and over and over, etc.
loren_1955
Guys, guys, guys, ones sexuality and sexual identity is not based on where we put our dick. Having been married to a woman for 27 years and fathering four children, after divorce and coming out many were telling me there was no way I was gay. Being young our dick works about anywhere doing about anything. That coupled with family, cultural, and societal pressure we can go a different path than who and what we are. Is gay for pay for straight men possible? Is straight for pay or family pressure possible for gays? Sure, in both cases.
For me, being gay is not where I am putting my dick or taking dick up my back side, it is about the person that fills my heart, that I want to touch, that I want to share with. I my case that is and has always been a man (even having married).
Xzamilio
@jar: Informative of what? Are you going to tell me that Lance Bass and Neil Patrick Harris, two men who are openly gay and who have had sex with women in the past, are bisexual because they managed to get an erection from the opposite sex? There is no black and white with sexuality, including bisexuality. Many of us have had sex with women and it meant nothing to us. I can have sex with a woman now and it wouldn’t mean anything because I’ll always be attracted, sexually and emotionally, to men.
littletwin52000
@Mike: i agree this was completely unnecessary. This need to to overshare has gotten out of control. When I’m watching porn a persons personal life is the last thing on my mind.
Xzamilio
I can’t believe some of the ignorance coming from some of you. I mean, how do like hearing people say we’re not really gay, and that we can just pray it away? Why is it that many of us can stay closeted, carrying on sexual relationships with women and come out as gay with no problems, but a straight guy who has a monetary incentive to have sex with a man must be gay or in denial? What would be the point? These are guys who have sex on CAMERA… this is stuff that is on the internet forever for people to see, including wives, fiances, girlfriends, family members. What on earth would these guys have to gain from pretending to be straight in private while having sex with men publicly? I have no problem believing a straight guy can have sex with another guy for money, or not even for money. Ever heard of experimenting? And NO, I’m not some straight worshiping guy who wants to bang a straight dude… there’s nothing sexy about doing it with someone that doesn’t want you.
jar
@loren_1955: That path is a one way street. There are no societal pressures to be gay, as there are to be straight. Embracing one’s homosexuality requires a resistance to the forces you cite. So, it makes sense that one may repress one’s homosexuality because of those forces, but doesn’t make sense that one would repress one’s heterosexuality in the same manner as there are no forces marginalizing heterosexuality.
@Xzamilio: I specifically cited the exception of experimentation. There is also a social pressure gay men and lesbians experience to conform to social expectations when they are young. Many of us went through the motions or experimented when we were young. I do not think that makes one bisexual.
DistingueTraces
Bless his heart, but “I’m not gay or bi! Well actually I am bi! But I’m not REALLY bi, because bi people are confused, and I’m not confused!” does not do the best possible job of supporting the ideas that:
– you only have sex with men for money
or that:
– you are not confused
SteveDenver
It’s astounding how many comments sound like this is a crisis.
If there’s any confusion here, it’s that Paul has unprotected sex for a few bucks.
Doughosier
I love Paul. He’s my favorite porn star in the world and all you have to do to know he’s essentially gay is watch him have sex with a man. I can’t believe the progress the world has made, that a gay porn star can sit with his suburban family, in front of a camera, and talk about his porn career.
MarionPaige
it just seems like there should be a bigger pay off / pay day for The Canon Family for something so invasive. Maybe OWN or HBO will pick this up at some point.
JimboinLA
How can you never have seen another penis before when you have two older brothers?
Meb
Firstly, he is hot.
On the other hand, no matter why a (in start) straight guy decides to have sex with a man (money, curiosity, a spontaneous impulse…). The really important fact is that if he can become sexually aroused with a man and enjoys gay sex he can no longer be seen as an exclusively straight guy (monosexual).
Really, a large part of the society is genuinely bisexual but they early learn to repress his homosexual feelings and they develop only his straight feelings. Therefore, they lead a straight life, they feel heterosexual, and they perceive and define themselves as straight.
That was all true and real but if at some point a guy starts to have satisfactory (I want to highlight this word: satisfactory) sex relations with men it redefines all this. And the new word for the new situation is “bisexual”. Though it is common that bisexual guys reject this word (bisexual) because they prefer not to assume a commitment. After all, the gay things are only a fun for them.
crowebobby
Bottom line for me is he seems like a really sweet guy. I get no sleaze vibe from him at all. Don’t get a gay vibe either, but that doesn’t mean i think he’s straight, just that my gaydar wouldn’t go off if I saw him on the street. I’ve had sex with five women/girls in my life (and a vacuum cleaner hose) and I’ve never been anything but 100% gay. As a Roman hustler once said to me: “The fact that I can get hard for a man doesn’t prove I’m gay, it just proves my brain is stronger than my dick.”
JJ24
@crowebobby: Technically you’d be a 5 on the kinnsey scale so not 100% gay.
tardis
What’s the point of this? “I wanna explain why I do gay porn because uh…I’m kinda embarrassed to be asked ‘Are you gay?’ all the time and uh like, if I explain myself then I’m not gay like real gay people…so I’m not gay…I just pretend to be.”
Xzamilio
@jar: So then why does it seem like you are trying to pigeonhole the sexuality of other individuals into your own subjective viewpoint?
” I would posit that any sexual activity with another man (excluding youthful experimentation) makes one at least bisexual.”
Why “youthful”? Why does adolescence pose as the only period where one can experiment with their sexuality? And for that matter, why is it not the other way around with gay men? I mean, I had sexual relationships with women, but I identify as gay. Am I bisexual, since I’ve had sex with women (two to be exact)?
michael mellor
“Bisexual’ is problematic in that, unlike most words, it is not a definitive term. For example, a man who is mostly attracted to women may be called bisexual but he is quite different from a man who is mostly attracted to men and who is also technically bisexual.
Their lifestyles are completely different even though they are both technically bisexual.
jjose712
@DarkZephyr: Sorry but no. You can do a lot of things for money. This is not a life or death situation. You decide to do porn, and you decide to do gay porn.
No straight man decide to do straight porn just for the money, first of all because porn is not that lucrative unless you are a big superstar.
I’m not that much into porn, and i heard of guys who look totally disgusted when they do it.
My question is why some gays think it’s hot look a guy who is totally into it? why being “straight” is a plus for that guys? because it looks totally as some kind of self hate
So maybe some straight guys do it desperate for money (the same that some guys do prostitution), but generally you chose to do porn, so i doubt most of guys who say they are gay for pay are really straight at all
jjose712
@michael mellor: Their sexual lifes are different, lifestyle is not only related to who you have sex. That’s the reason being gay is not a lifestyle (you can be gay and promiscuous and gay and not having any sex)
SteveDenver
I looked him up on BSB and he has bottomed without condoms in a few films. Too bad they didn’t ask his family what they think about him putting his health at risk for a few bucks.
Since the incubation period for HIV is as little as 2 weeks to as long as 6 months, porn producers should be required to insure the health of their “actors” for a minimum of 6 months, ongoing if they become infected with an STD that requires ongoing treatment.
enlightenone
@Jacob23: Sadly, the “fantasy” element was DESTROYED
since the age of gay porn sites and social media; and, yes, “docos” like this produced by million dollars pornmakers, by exploiting young guys catering to their ego needs and sexual desires!
enlightenone
@SteveDenver: They may have (edited out), but the producers wouldn’t want that discussed in the “doco.” Not good for business if you know want I mean.
enlightenone
@Xzamilio: Because your motivation/choice to have sex (relationship?) with females is different given the way we are all socialized/”recruited”/”rewarded” to be heterosexual. Throughout human history, males have died and killed for the “[golden] vagina,” at least that’s what “they” say!
NoCagada
He’s not really gay…it’s the smell of money that makes his dick hard…
enlightenone
@NoCagada: Lol!
Aromaeus
Paul Canon is one of my favs at BSB because you can tell he’s really into the sex and/or his scene partner. On that alone I would say he isn’t exactly 100% straight. You can kind of tell whose acting and whose actually enjoying themselves if you look hard enough.
That being said, he should be allowed to identify however he chooses. If he says he’s bisexual, then he’s bisexual. If he says he just doesn’t like labels, then don’try to label him. It’s not going to stop me from enjoying his scenes even if he was 100% gay. The guy can take and give dick like a champ.
Also just because he can get an erection doesn’t mean anything. I’m a gold star gay but I assure you if a woman rubbed her hand across my dick enough it would get hard. An erection means nothing.
Xzamilio
@jjose712: Wow…I lost my ability to think for other people when I reached puberty, so I forgot what it was like. How is it to assume you know everything about the gay for pay world and that they all must be gay, since there are so many other ways to make money? You know what? You’re right… but for some people, taking their clothes off, having sex, and getting paid sounds better than scrubbing toilets or slinging burgers. And who died and maid you the arbitrator of “straight porn stars” and gay porn stars? “Straight porn stars wouldn’t do this or that.” Like you know.
Man, gone.
Xzamilio
@enlightenone: That is nonsense. Many gay men cannot have sex with a woman if they tried, so that subjective talk about societal pressure doesn’t mean anything to me. We may be driven to the relationships, but the actual sexual acts is what I am talking about here. A lot of us have done it, with no monetary incentive, no cameras on us, and not physically attracted to who we are sleeping with, so how is it that straight men can’t fake it but we can?
enlightenone
Sad kid! When you are confused about yourself, then others will be too. That’s not “judging you!” As human beings we don’t get to be “blank slates”/no “labels.” We’re not robots or machines. People name (label) their pets for a reason! When your behavior is inconsistent with what/who you are, the consistency (known) of behavior defines you. That fact that a dictionary and to a lesser extend a “Bible” was created illustrates the point.
enlightenone
@Xzamilio: Incomprehensible!
enlightenone
@Xzamilio: The comments are about the guy in the video to this article not about you. It is clear from your statements about yourself that you’re a homosexual through and through even though you put your penis in a vagina a couple of times. Clearly there is no comparison between your sexual experiences with a female and his, and least ON VIDEO, with males! He is struggling with his sexuality, and from your statements about yourself, you and not.
Read big brother Jar’s comment again, perhaps it will help you. And, yes, you need the help whether you are able to calm down enough to recognize it! Here it is for your convenience: @Xzamilio: “I specifically cited the exception of experimentation. There is also a social pressure gay men and lesbians experience to conform to social expectations when they are young. Many of us went through the motions or experimented when we were young. I do not think that makes one bisexual.”
enlightenone
@Aromaeus: Yes, I agree, you can of course call yourself anything you want, but it doesn’t change what you are. The over-arching point is the confusion that so many heterosexuals struggle with and sadly some on this thread is the difference between sexual “identity” (what you label yourself – how you perceive yourself and how you WANT others to perceive you) and sexual “orientation” (your (more than a few) sexual behaviors/experiences, fantasies, desire, natural physical arousal (not involuntary), etc.) that allows you and others to effectively communicate and relate with each other, sexually or otherwise, no matter the degree of knowledge about that human being/person.
Stache99
So he gets all drunk so this girl gives him a handful of Oxycontin. Passes out. Next day he gets up and takes another handful of cough and cold drops because that’s his usual drug of choice and wondered why he OD.
I can’t handle anymore stupid. Does the video get any better?
enlightenone
@Xzamilio: “I can’t believe some of the ignorance coming from some of you. I mean, how do like hearing people say we’re not really gay, and that we can just pray it away?”….
Ignorance? We don’t – that is why me and others continue to respond to your warped comparisons of these young people’s choice to perform sex acts on video and YOUR, I assume, adolescent, NOT recorded (“two”) life experiences (performing sex acts with a female) that inadvertently help form the (“credible”) messages people who are putting out marketing campaigns like “You Can Pray Away the Gay” for profit that have caused further harm or ended the life of some young person by suicide or murder by “caregivers!”
“Why is it that many of us can stay closeted, carrying on sexual relationships with women and come out as gay with no problems…?”…. There are “problems” before, during, and after!
“.., but a straight guy who has a monetary incentive to have sex with a man must be gay or in denial?”…. He says in the video that he no longer was “desperate” for money, but now he has made a “career” out of being a porn performer/”sex worker.”
“What would be the point?” …. His answer would be interesting to hear, but it may have to be off-camera after some therapy to get an honest answer!
“What on earth would these guys have to gain from pretending to be straight in private while having sex with men publicly?” ….
I think you meant to say, why are they telling us (trying to convince us) they are “straight” while having sex with men publicly. If that’s correct, it’s because the gay porn industry say “straight” has cache even if you have to pretend you are even if you have your legs behind your head with a guy’s dick on your ass/tongue in your ass/tongue in your mouth, and cum on your face, you can make more money even as an “amateur”/”first-timer!”
“And NO, I’m not some straight worshiping guy who wants to bang a straight dude… there’s nothing sexy about doing it with someone that doesn’t want you.” GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!
enlightenone
@Stache99: Depending on your perspective. But from my perspective, for what it’s worth, NO!
enlightenone
It would have been a good doc if the purpose weren’t to convince the viewer that he is/you really could be “GAY4PAY!” This is the brand/profit maker. It is a concern for me that as a parent, especially a child who has a drug problem and almost died and not having participated in a drug treatment program and (practicing safer sex).
Didn’t want family to “see him like that,” but no problem seeing him do porn with males as a “straight” guy and then ask them to do this “doc!” Adding to this is his “drug problem.” Older brother clearly doesn’t know what “gay” is! However, he is very much his oldest brother and that I find appealing about him.
enlightenone
It would have been a good doc if the purpose weren’t to convince the viewer that he is/you really could be “GAY4PAY!” This is the brand/profit maker. It is a concern for me that as a parent, especially a child who has a drug problem and almost died and not having participated in a drug treatment program and (practicing safer sex).
Didn’t want family to “see him like that,” but no problem seeing him do porn with males as a “straight” guy and then ask them to do this “doc!” Adding to this is his “drug problem.” Older brother clearly doesn’t know what “gay” is! However, he is very much his oldest brother and that I find appealing about him.
There’s nothing “negative” about a bisexual orientation itself, but rather what people make of it, say about it, or contribute/associate with it like Paul does in this video!
jar
@Stache99: The best bit is when he whines about how rude people were to him at a gay pride event he was working. He felt that he, a man there solely to make a buck off of gay men, was being treated unfairly. He goes into a brief lecture about pride and how wrong it is for gay people to discriminate against others (ie, him- the innocent victim). Ah, youth.
enlightenone
“Perhaps the most accurate description of his sexuality is the phrase brandished across his t-shirt: “I’m not gay, but $1000 is $1000?.”…. What I say is the “most accurate description of his sexuality” is: I can’t say I’m not “straight” because $1000 is $1000, even though I’m not desperate now!
“… Don’t knock it till you’ve seen it, because it’s not as painful as it sounds.”…. Queerty, can I “knock it” now? It was painful to watch on many levels!
Meb
@jjose712: “… why being “straight” is a plus for that guys? because it looks totally as some kind of self hate…”
In my opinion, it might, rather, be that the most of guys who feel sexual attraction to guys (including gay and bi men) prefer manly guys. And the stereotypical homosexual man is really not very manly. Personally, in gay porn (and in real life), I prefer manly guys but, also, totally gay guys (though if I must choose I prefer manly guys). Anyway, if a gay porn star says he doesn’t enjoy gay sex and his work is totally fictional it is not sexually exciting.
lykeitiz
@Stache99: No, it didn’t get any better. And congrats to you for pulling the plug. That’s a full 1/2 hour I’ll never get back.
Stache99
@lykeitiz: You see these shows that feature young people and say wow. They’re so cool and sophisticated these days. Then you watch stuff like this and you see true reality.
“Yo dawg. I just did a shitload of drugs and I’m still standing. Think I’ll do some cold medicine and get higher. Yo dawg. Think I’m gonna get sick. Dude I’m like OD’g. Damn.” Ah youth..
Xzamilio
@enlightenone: Whoo… when I managed to read through that ad-hominem laced BS, I managed to find some pseudo-intellectual crap in there. Don’t assume that because I don’t see the GAY FOR PAY genre (not just this dude in particular) the same as the rest of you who are so intent on putting a label on everything you meet that I need “help”. The only thing I see are a bunch of dudes so insecure about their own sexuality that they need to pigeonhole others into their subjective worldviews. I got news for you: Whether you’re gay for pay, gay porn, straight porn, or in other genre in between, if you’re in porn, it is likely something went wrong somewhere. Not all of them… just MOST of them
Amy Poehler said it best in her Golden Globes monologue with Tina Fey: None of us have PLANS to do porn.
Kieran
I’m not digging the shirt at all. If labels don’t matter, why even wear a shirt like that? It shouldn’t matter whether people think you’re gay or straight. But he is adorable and the family all seem like good people. I wish them all well.
robbiepaulson
Can we please talk about the fact that she was creeping on his computer for SIX HOURS? #invasionofprivacy
enlightenone
@DarkZephyr: Just my thinking based solely on the read reality of what does on during a video shoot, I would NOT choose the word “authentic” which means: Conforming to fact [heterosexual] and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
enlightenone
@Xzamilio: Disconnect!
Cam
The fact that he gets furious about “Labels” and plays the pronoun game when mentioning the “Somebody” he has his eye on to get married all just scream unresolved gay issues.
enlightenone
@Cam: “…UNRESOLVED gay issues.” Natural consequences of being so young when entering the not so normal porn industry, as well as a history of drug addiction (having almost “died” – a severe trauma in and of itself), and a family as likeable as I saw them, were for the most part clueless about the complexities of sexuality, more specifically what it means to be gay/bi/ homosexual. NO MENTION OF ANY HISTORY OF MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT OR TREATMENT!!! The off-camera “facilitator’s” sole purpose was to protect its brand/dollars.