I have to agree with you on this one Mikey. Does it make us total hypocrites? If I had a son, nephew, grandson or even a dear friend of my family who reached the right age to be doing this kind of work, I would not be thrilled for them to take that plunge. I would probably make a strong case to try to dissuade them. It's not the strictly video part of the job that would concern me the most. That might even be some of the least of my concerns. It's what happens
after the videos are released in this internet age and the general public finds out more info on you from social media and so on that my real concerns begin . Even as little as 6 or 7 years ago before social media and internet enabled cellphones became all the rage, it wasn't so much of a concern. But it's just like how I felt concern for
Zeno Kostas when he was weighing taking the plunge into social media. I worry about them.
When Adam left here he had a terrible time trying to keep even minimum wage jobs like a sandwich artist at Subway. Customers would come in and recognize him. Then they would complain to the manager that he shouldn't be allowed to work there. They said that they didn't want a "person like that" touching their food. Which of course begs the question as to how these supposedly pure and without a fleck of sin goody two shoes found out about Adam's prior video work. Homophobia and snobbery did play a role in it of course. But poor Adam said on social media that he had lost 3 jobs already because of people making trouble for him. And that's a distinction I'd like to make. The video work was of course neither the illegal nor immoral thing that got him into trouble. It was the supposed holier than thou people in the world who feel they have the right to stand in judgment of everyone else, who gave him trouble. And some of those same people were probably some of the ones watching his videos.
There are plenty of people out there who can do the models harm. I remember clearly when Blake Bennett told us that he had gotten a real life scary and persistent stalker. The guy made trouble for him at work trying to get him fired. Blake had to ask to be escorted out to his car after work because he knew the guy was watching and following him. You get some crazies who figure, since Blake (and all the other models) do adult gay video work...why wouldn't they happily agree to have sex with him or any random stranger for some cash, or even for free? I know they must be getting propositioned all the time through social media.
I realize that some but not all of the gay porn models out there (including even some straight gay-for-pay ones) are tempted into "escorting" and so on. I don't look down on the ones who do. Even though I've never hired an escort or a hustler myself, I don't look down on them. But I do worry for their safety. Both in terms of their physical and health safety, as well as their emotional wellbeing.