I keep thinking about why this new venture into bareback sex is so troubling to me. I've read all the opinions offered here, including some by folks such as Stowe, who I am very fond of, as we have developed a personal friendship off this forum as well, but we have both agreed to not hold back our own personal feelings on the forum, even if we disagree. I believe that the youth of these models does come into play. I use as an example that most states in the United States have now moved the legal drinking age back from 18 to 21, as there was overwhelming evidence that young people who consume alcohol are more likely to get into automobile accidents than older people.
You are right,mikey, we have developed a personal relationship off this forum of which I am very fond, and we did agree to not hold back our views should they differ because friends should be able to disagree while respecting the other person's right to do so. And I guess this is one of those times. And while you are right about the drinking age, I will posit that the states allow 18 yr olds to vote and that is an exercise or at least should be in informing one's intellect and making a free will choice. And they've done a pretty good job of doing that in the last 2 presidential elections.
I would also contend that typically the personality of a young man who would want to be a gay porn model may differ from the average 18-22 year old guy. I believe that the decision to do porn is based on a risk taking, somewhat devil-may-care attitude that would lead him into this line of work.
I don't know that I agree with your premise here. There is such a wide variety of personality types amongst the models on this site, that I can't come up with a typical type. Would you say this applies to your Logan?
Our latest solo model, Tyler Blaze said that he has an addictive personality, and our director Clay posted this three weeks ago about many of the models.I believe it is more than a coincidence that many of our BSB actors have been incarcerated, as it all seems to go with the personality of a straight identifying kid who decides to suck dick and get fucked by another guy on camera for the cash.
Clay also said the majority of the models have never been arrested. (He cited 13 on probation or on parole and an unspecified number in halfway houses). While it is true that I have known porn producers in the past who took advantage of a model's addictiveness, I do not believe one iota that this is the case here at BSB.
While I have the utmost respect for Mark, and particularly Sha who I met last June and spent time in a long private conversation with, I do question if Mark was being 100% truthful with us when he said that there was no extra compensation for a model to accept a cock in his ass without protection. In today's Lucas/Johnny scene, at the beginning Clay says that Lucas is getting paid "a lot of money" for what he is about to do. I cannot believe that he would have been paid the same sum, if he took Johnny's cock with a condom on.
Clay has said that a number of times to different models, always in the context of the model being reluctant to return to do any scene involving another guy. I don't think you can imply that in this instance it has to do with the barebacking aspect of the scene.
I keep thinking about one of my all time favorite models from BSB1, the incredibly handsome and intelligent Logan. I wonder what his reaction would have been to be fucked without a condom. I of course don't know the answer to that question, but I do think about it.
I would imagine he would have either said no outright, or listened to the discussion thereby informing his intellect and then made a free will choice to either do it or not. Do you consider Logan more intelligent than the other models? If so, does that mean he would have rejected bb'ing?
I understand that Mark felt he had no choice but to go to the bareback sex here to maintain the popularity of this site, as apparently that is the direction of this industry today. But I personally cannot gleefully watch these scenes yet, as I feel like the audience sitting back in the safety of their living rooms or wherever they watch porn is akin to the spectators at the Roman Colosseum, watching the masculine young gladiators performing for their titillation.
The gladiators fought to the death and that is what the audience wanted and expected. To imply that the members here who want and will watch barebacking scenes are in any way similiar to that is distasteful; and as one of those members I resent it.
But now, the die has been cast, and the new bareback scenes are being released. As a long time fan of this site, I hope that I can "get over" this change and continue to get into the fantasy of straight young guys having gay sex, but I wanted to clearly state my concerns.
