Thank you David for your input here.
Yes. You are quite right that when models sign up for a site with a fetish focus, whether it's spanking or domination, degradation, humiliation, etc... They know what they're getting into. It's not like they go in as dewy-eyed innocents being led to the proverbial slaughter. So if they find it to be too much for them to handle they can always refuse and walk away.
Trebligon makes a point too though that some guys really are naive or don't yet have the emotional and psychological maturity for the stresses of doing the more rigorous forms of fetish porn. Certain models may believe going in that the humiliation they endure in the play scenes won't ever get into their heads and actually damage their self-esteem off stage in their real lives. Some guys won't know that they are in over their heads until it's too late. Some guys might really be that naive to think that it's all in fun and that they aren't really slapping them with leather whips very hard, and that it's mostly just models acting like it hurts. Or they go into it thinking, "Ah... It can't really be THAT bad." (Famous last words.) haha
But the thrust of what you're saying here David I totally agree with and want to back you up on wholeheartedly. Even when Clay was here and was trying to push some of his own fetish agendas on
Broke Straight Boys models, there were guardrails in place that prevented him from taking it too far. Mark was on duty. Sha was on duty. Along with others who held the same high ethical standards of what the site should be.
Broke Straight Boys has a very good reputation for treating the models with great respect. That goes from
Broke Straight Boys-1 into the present. The models themselves often rave about the night and day difference here at
Broke Straight Boys versus "other studios out there". Having said all that, some of Clay's behavior was a temporary low point of the site. He didn't hold the same company culture of those before and after him.
The models here are treated so much than other studios. Many of the interviews in BTS scenes with models who have worked elsewhere besides
Broke Straight Boys pretty much uniformly say they prefer the culture and accomodations of
Broke Straight Boys over their other studio(s). Some talk about how well they're fed during their stay. Some models arrive here with borderline malnutrition. And they're so grateful to be served meat at every meal. When some of them are asked how
Broke Straight Boys compares to their previous studios, many models will just look up and roll their eyes as if trying to repress horrible past experiences and with a world-weary tone say (with understatement and gratitude) that
Broke Straight Boys is much better.
There was a memorable BTS interview with
Vadim Black upon his return to
Broke Straight Boys after being in the clutches of another studio out there. When asked (gently) about his experiences out there before returning to
Broke Straight Boys, he looked downright traumatized. He expressed great appreciation for being invited back to
Broke Straight Boys while still having a rather lost deer in the headlights look about him. Even those interviewing him were being skittish (and gentle) about what they were asking
Vadim Black on camera because the accusations (whether mentioned or merely alluded to but left mostly unspoken) were so unpleasant. There was even some vague mention or an allusion to an "assault" that just hovered in the air with no follow-up and an intentional sense of plausible deniability as to what they might mean by that.
So studios vary widely in their treatment of their employess/models. Some may be drug havens. Some may be prostituting models to other friends and family. Some may film the models for many scenes only to fire them afterwards without cause and then not pay them at all. Compared to some of these other studios,
Broke Straight Boys is practically a paradise. haha
P.S.
I mistakenly said the model involved was
Kodi. But on second thought it was actually
Vadim Black. The vid goes back a few years. I think it might have even been taken down. I'm not sure.