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Archae

(46,333 posts)
Mon May 19, 2014, 12:55 AM May 2014

How are guys treated in the porn industry?

I know somewhat about that, I used to know a guy who worked lighting for a couple porn studios during the 80's.

He said one guy really stuck out (pun not intended, wait a minute, pun very much intended,) in his memory, John Holmes.

My friend said Holmes was rather dumb. But he had that big schwanz, that was his gimmick.
But Holmes was also a huge cocaine addict, ended up in jail as a result of some cocaine-based murders.
Eventually Holmes died of AIDS he got from hustling gay sex to feed his habit.

Ron Jeremy's gimmick was how simply UGLY he was!
(Even he admitted it to an interviewer.)

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How are guys treated in the porn industry? (Original Post) Archae May 2014 OP
Black men are treated worse than anybody in the industry. They are often relegated to appeaing Chakab May 2014 #1
I think men in general are treated badly also. Archae May 2014 #2
You guys need to watch a better class of porn Blue_Adept May 2014 #6
just curious but Skittles May 2014 #3
I was going by a biography that was on the "E!" channel. Archae May 2014 #4
Schwanz? Warren DeMontague May 2014 #5
Looks like that big Schwanz cherokeeprogressive May 2014 #7
 

Chakab

(1,727 posts)
1. Black men are treated worse than anybody in the industry. They are often relegated to appeaing
Mon May 19, 2014, 01:19 AM
May 2014

in movies that play on the worst racial stereotypes about black male sexuality, and most of the women in the industry are open about their refusal to "work" with them because it supposedly lowers their value in the eyes of non-black porn fans.

Archae

(46,333 posts)
2. I think men in general are treated badly also.
Mon May 19, 2014, 01:40 AM
May 2014

In porn studios.

They are stereotyped as abusive, wanting nothing more than to beat up women, or simply being dumb.
Only wanting sex and being total idiots.

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
6. You guys need to watch a better class of porn
Mon May 19, 2014, 06:12 AM
May 2014

Like what the folks at x-art or nubile films put out. Or the Passion HD folks.

Archae

(46,333 posts)
4. I was going by a biography that was on the "E!" channel.
Mon May 19, 2014, 02:26 AM
May 2014

They said in the last few years before he died, Holmes was hustling in Los Angeles gay bars, while AIDS was more prevalent in the gay bars of San Francisco, LA had plenty as well.

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