The number one reason straight men do gay porn is cold, hard cash, says David. So what’s the appeal for these actors and the viewers? And can the performers really call themselves straight?Ĭurtis says the fact he began enjoying the feeling caused him confusion about his sexuality. Calling somebody gay is often used as a derogatory comment.” “It’s interesting because there’s such a stigma against LGBT people in many places.
“A lot of the main studios’ producers are straight men or women,” he said. He realised this was increasingly reflected in both mainstream movies ( Brokeback Mountain, Dallas Buyers Club) and porn. “It’s not only subconscious cues, it’s promoted as this by the studios: ‘Look at these straight guy f**k!’”ĭavid became aware of the trend for heterosexuals to “go gay” for parts after he appeared in LGBT-orientated supernatural soap Dante’s Cove in 2004 and discovered he was the only “out” gay actor on set. “You’re seeing hypermasculine situations or sometimes professions, a construction worker and so on,” David told. Popular gay porn websites including (where Curtis works), Men.com, and all offer movies proudly featuring straight actors. I’m a Porn Star: Gay4Pay, which is released internationally on Tuesday, explores why straight men would have sex with other men, and why there’s such a huge market for it. At least half of all male gay porn stars identify as straight, according to Charlie David, a director from Montreal, Canada, who’s made a documentary on the subject. They’re not doing that much any more.”Ĭurtis’ experience may sound extreme, but it’s a common phenomenon. “They let me top the first sex scene I did just to ease me into it. “I thought about it a bit, experimented at home and was like, well that ain’t too bad, I can do that and come back with a pocketful of money, that’d be great. But soon enough, the chance to make even more money became too enticing. Pretty much just like jerking off at home is what it turned out to be.”Ĭurtis was emphatic that he would not do a sex scene. when you have three or four people with cameras, it’s pretty nerve-racking. I’d never been naked in front of anybody other than me and a girlfriend. “It was just, come back here, here’s the studio, get naked. “They made it real comfortable,” he says. The five boys were now back in the care of their parents.THE offer came through Curtis’ MySpace account: masturbate on camera for a gay porn film, and earn some quick and easy cash.Ĭurtis was straight, but as a struggling new graduate in fast-paced San Diego, it was a tempting idea. Mr Phakphum will face human trafficking charges, police said. He admitted he was infected with HIV and was being treated, police said. The suspect said he spent some of the money buying sex from boys.
Customers paid the boys 2,000 baht a time. Identified only as "Phakphum", he was taken into custody by police led by Pol Col Jiradet Phrasawang, deputy chief of the Anti-Human Trafficking Suppression Division, on Thursday evening.įive schoolboys, all aged 14 years, were also taken into protective custody.ĭuring interrogation, Mr Phakphum allegedly admitted he had persuaded the boys to provide sex services for male customers for money. NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A gay man has been arrested at a resort in Sikhiu district for allegedly procuring five 14-year-old schoolboys to provide sex services for male customers.
Phakphum, left, is questioned by police at a resort in Nakhon Ratchasima's Sikhiu district for allegedly pimping five schoolboys to male customers.