A lot of really big sites have gone bareback the last year or so. Sean Cody, Corbin Fisher, Broke Straight Boys, even Kristen Bjorn just went bareback. And of course Chaos Men went bareback a while ago now. They're all "pretty boy" sites for lack of a better term. So what does it really mean for sites like that to go bareback? Personally I think it's huge - let me explain why…
Back in the early '90s all the bareback porn was either 1) left over stuff from the '80s or 2) rather raunchy porn with guys who often looked pretty sick. I used to scan the HDK DVD covers looking for healthy guys who were bottoming. I'd jack off thinking about the risk they were taking as they let guys breed them. Of course, they had taken the risk a long time before and were already poz, but it was like they relived the experience on film (over and over again).
Bottom line bareback porn in the early '90s = poz porn and because HIV was still very much a killer poz/bareback porn was highly controversial. Eroticizing barebacking meant eroticizing HIV and that was seen as completely irresponsible.
In 1996 ARVs (anti-retrovirals) changed all of that. Suddenly people stopped dying and the rules of the game changed. That allowed for a new kind of bareback porn which was lead by Treasure Island Media - which was founded in 1998 - two years after the advent of ARVs. Paul Morris initially termed his porn "documentary" in nature. From my perspective his goal was the document the sex lives of poz cumdumps. The message was pretty clear - if you're poz, make the most of a bad situation and enjoy yourself. Ostensibly it was making poz guys feel better about themselves, but it also made neg guys envy the sex lives of poz guys, which in turn eroticized HIV.
As a neg guy back then maybe envy wasn't quite the right term. At first I'd look at videos like "What I Can't See" (1999) and there was a sense of shock. But then it sinks in that being blindfolded and taking anonymous load after anonymous load is actually pretty hot. Even if the neg guy was watching was only willing to be a top - he wanted to be part of that scene.
BUT the guys still looked a bit sick - or at least not very healthy. It didn't break the idea that barebacking was what "dirty sluts" did. And I don't mean dirty sluts in the romanticized way we think about that term now. Back then the term was said with real revulsion. But still the videos made us want to at least dip our toes in the pool and experience what we saw in some way.
Then Dawson's 20 Load Weekend came out in 2004. That was the first time a genuinely "hot" guy appeared as a cumdump in a video. I really think D20LW was the predecessor to all the big sites going bareback. It was a long hard road and it took 7 to 9 years, but many of them have come around.
Thing is, Dawson was poz and the guys in sites listed above are almost always neg. The last thing those sites want is one of their models becoming poz on set. They test pretty rigorously for HIV, but still some of them are going pretty nasty. Some of the pics and videos I've seen come out of Sean Cody rival Treasure Island in nastiness of action - I mean their guys come across as real cumpigs who are all about breeding, taking loads, and even somewhat rough sex. They'll do internal cumshots and then have the bottom push it out, etc.
So yeah, Corbin Fisher, Sean Cody, etc. have gone into bareback - sometimes raunchy bareback, but what does that mean really? I mean their sets are totally "safe" - so you gotta wonder what what the effect will be on the guys watching their porn.
I'll make a prediction - we're going to see a dramatic increase in regular guys barebacking in their every day lives. And not just barebacking, but really get into a cum and breeding fetish where the load has to go up the bottom's ass or it's not good sex. That's what they're seeing on their computer screens and they think it's hot. If they didn't think it was hot the studios wouldn't have felt it necessary to go bareback and raunchy in the first place.
And what about the models? If you've ever given a load or taken one up your ass - it's addictive. At first you say "just with my boyfriend". Then you say "just with guys I trust". Then you say "just with guys who say they're neg". Then you say "Well, undetectable guys are safe, right". Then you just need a load in your ass and you think "what they hell - I'm already taking risk - it's gonna happen anyway" and you start letting anyone and everyone fuck you raw. There are many reasons why that process can get slowed, but as many of us know it's a one-way street. I think the guys we see doing work for these pretty boy studios today will be working for TIM, Dark Alley and the other poz studios soon enough.
So personally I don't think we can underestimate the effect of the pretty boy studios going bareback and raunchy. I think it'll result in a tidal wave of barebacking in the next 2 to 5 years and probably a substantial increase in HIV infections shortly thereafter (unless PrEP becomes widespread).
These pretty boy studios are doing some incredible advertising for the Bareback Brotherhood (#BBBH) lifestyle. Let's hope the even more studios join their ranks. I dream of a day when barebacking is just regular sex once again.
In the meantime, head over to CorbinFisher.com and some of the other sites mentioned to see some hot jocks giving and taking loads.
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Comments
Seaguy (June 27, 2013 06:24 AM)
The condom nazi's are going to freak when they see this post and especially at your prediction of a jump in the number of new HIV cases. Just thinking that they could end up using this post to further their goal of banning bareback porn.
Sean (June 27, 2013 03:21 PM)
So true. First I was monogamous. Then oral with buds. Then safe top with buds. Then safe bottom with clean buds. Then raw bottom with clean regular buds. Then raw bttm with random buds. That's where I am now.
All the youngish guys in apps say they are safe only then at some point all ask where I want to cum or want it.
rawTOP (June 27, 2013 03:55 PM)
@Seaguy - Even if the condom nazis were able to ban bb porn it'll just move offshore and underground. In the process barebacking will become even more desirable since people want what's forbidden. And in the process they'll do harm to their 'cause since they'll lose all credibility since they'll seem out of touch and alarmist.
They may accomplish their goal in California, but I don't think they'll succeed in many other places. Few states have as OSHA's that are as active as California's.
mascmountainman (June 28, 2013 04:31 AM)
I think your analysis is a little bit colored by what you yourself find attractive.
I remember those first self-consciously bareback pornos in the '90s. And maybe it's because my taste in men differs a bit (I've always preferred the older guys, even when I was in my early 20s) and my taste in porn differs a bit (I'd much rather watch regular guys that you might pick up in your local bar enthusiastically going at it than men with perfect bodies having lackluster sex, even if it's raw--the bane, in my mind, of so much porn out there), but I don't really view all of this mainstream porn going bareback being such a big deal.
Now, granted, I'm out of the gay mainstream on this point. Young, skinny, hairless, virgins that seem to bring out the daddy in other guys my age are almost enough to drive me to pussy. But what I most remember about the early HDK and Treasure Island stuff was how much I saw myself...guys I could relate to...in porn for the very first time. I'd never been starstruck by porn stars before, but I remember vividly the first time I fucked one of the bottoms in one of those early HDK vids (late at night up against a concrete block wall in an alley in Phoenix...woof!) and what struck me wasn't so much that he was sick, or dirty so much as he was hot in a way I'd always wanted to be myself.
And indeed, the desire to be that kind of guy, not some Greek god fucking another Greek god for the pleasure of the mortals, but the kind of guy you run into in everyday life, who's just hot enough that you hope he'll have sex with you at the bathhouse, who's just that much piggier than you so that he'll inspire you to actually do the stuff you see him doing...that's the kind of man I saw in those early bareback pornos.
I've got a feeling that it's the guys out there like them who really did the heavy lifting. Watching sex between two unattainable guys isn't aspirational, it's voyeuristic.
But when you see someone like me barebacking in porn, that tells you that barebacking is for everyone.
rawTOP (June 28, 2013 08:57 AM)
@mascmountainman - I think you miss the point. Yeah, guys like us have had bareback porn with "guys like us" for a long time. The only exception would be bear porn 'cause it catered to an older crowd that had been really decimated by AIDS - but even that's coming around now - I could do a similar post for them.
What I was trying to say is the last bastion of "always use a condom" is now gone. And it's a big segment of the market. No matter what our personal tastes are, you have to admit that jock porn is extremely popular. Most of the really big porn sites feature jocks. But whether someone is a jock or aspires to be a jock, jock porn is the biggest influencer / role model of sexual behavior in the gay community. Tons of guys want to be like the jock porn stars they see on their computers. These are guys who "take care of their bodies" and using a condom was part of that. Now that's not so much the case.
mascmountainman (June 29, 2013 04:32 AM)
I see your point...it's another step in the mainstreaming of barebacking. (I guess we'll know we've really arrived when Chi Chi LaRue either comes around or is run out of the business).
But HDK started producing videos with jocks and twinks fairly quickly after it established its initial success...Barebacking Boys, for instance, is more than ten years old now. And the entire sorry genre of former Eastern Bloc bareback porn is based around cute twinks and jocks taking it up the ass bareback (if not terribly enthusiastically).
The main change I see going on now is that the condom companies are coming to understand that barebacking is the future. So they're starting to open up a bit (often by creating a separate studio under their umbrella). You no longer have to go with a studio that was built on bareback porn if you don't want to.
Although I have to say, I prefer to stick with the purely bareback studios. After all, the genre wouldn't exist without them.
neg4negbareback (October 23, 2013 10:30 PM)
I believe your prediction is already proving true in a very personal way for you based on your sex blog post from earlier this month. It appears that the bareback porn you are watching - the kind where the top's cum in literally splashing out of the bottom's asshole during the moment the breeding occurs and when actual raw sex resembles many artists' drawings depicting those life changing moments where sperm is splattering from a cock filled asshole - is making you want the same end result but without the pain you experience with bottoming. It's wonderful to read about your own personal progression in your own way and how you are making an effort to get some sperm inside you. As you said, it's addictive. Your choice to go on prep was very timely as you too will probably become addicted to having more and more semen inside you. I'll be curious to see if you develop a hungry hole without really bottoming. I am hoping you do and that it consumes your sex life in a new and even more exciting way. Your blog could become even more entertaining than it already is!
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