Chi Chi LaRue Chats With Rupaul About Bareback, Shovel-Fucking, and the Dying Art of High-End Porn

Rupaul’s been scoring better and better guests for her web series Rupaul Drives (John Waters and Olivia Newton-John were fun), and in the wake of Drag Race doing that talk show challenge last night, we have a new episode with Ru interviewing 28-year porn industry vet Chi Chi LaRue.

Chi Chi, of course, is the director and owner of Channel One Releasing and was recently nominated for bunches of Grabby Awards for both The Boy Who Cried DILF and Teddy.

She sits in Ru’s Volvo and tours around West Hollywood talking about the state of the porn industry in general, about her new episodic feature Sentenced (an unreleased episode of which features an orgy scene with some ranch hands in which somebody gets fucked with a shovel), and about her newest hot model find.

Rupaul: We’ve talked before about how production on porn films has been scaled down…

Chi Chi: Diminished. Completely diminished…

Rupaul: Where is this all going?

Chi Chi: Hopefully not straight into the toilet… I don’t know the answer. I’m afraid to answer. ‘Cause I think in the back of my mind I kind of know.

Rupaul: But people are always going to want to fantasize about sex, you know…

Chi Chi: Honey, but they can get it for free. 25-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 18-year-olds who are legally able to buy porn — they don’t have the money or want to spend their money on porn.

Rupaul: Same with the music business.

Chi Chi: Totally. Back in the day, when I was 18 years old, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the latest Elton John record… Thank god our new toy line is doing well… We’ve got this mail order [business], and we’ve got these guys who have been ordering from us for years… Guys who still ask for VHS…

… and regarding bareback …

Chi Chi: There’s one company in particular, I’m not going to say which one, but they signed some people to contracts and then after these people were signed to contracts they decided to go bareback. And these guys were told, “You’re under contract. You have to stay with us. Either you do bareback or you don’t work for three years.” It’s porn, let them go. Let them go and do what they want… I’ve had exclusives that have wanted to go to school and have had 7 months left on their contract. Let them go. If they want to come back they’ll come back.

… and in re: CR1’s latest exclusive…

Chi Chi: We just signed this new boy, Jason Phoenix. He is this Marine, 6 foot 4, white boy, 22 years old, uncut, gurl werk…

Rupaul: And how long is his… contract? [Editor’s note: His C1R profile says he’s 6′ 3″, and 8 inches.]

Chi Chi: [laughing] His contract is a year, with an option to renew. And he’s actually planning on doing some movies for Vivid also because he is bisexual. Basically straight, but bisexual and I think he’s a little more bi than straight. But he does everything except kiss. Again you’ve got to respect someone’s limitations, but it’s funny when they’ll stick their face in someone’s butt but they won’t kiss.

So here’s hoping Jason Phoenix pops his man-kissing cherry!

Chi Chi also talks about the good old days when the biggest porn stars could demand $10,000 to $25,000 to do a movie. Now, she says, “There are so many gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous super model guys that want to do porn, it’s saturated.” And she quotes rates of the last decade that were $800 to $2500 per scene, and says that’s now slipped to anywhere from a bargain-basement $300 to a max of about $1200 (but what Sean Cody is paying its biggest stars may be a bit higher than that).

Anyway, you can watch it all below.

 

[World of Wonder]

19 thoughts on “Chi Chi LaRue Chats With Rupaul About Bareback, Shovel-Fucking, and the Dying Art of High-End Porn”

  1. oh come on larue made terrific movies, she was a legend over here in europe…anyway what i did like so much about her movies is that her men KISSED with passion

  2. MonsieurFrouFrou

    As a matter of fact; I didn’t know what to expect of Chi Chi, but he was a very charming, humorous and down to earth guy in this interview. You can clearly see both he and Rupaul experienced a lot in their lives. I like these kind of interview concepts by the way; like a fly on the wall enjoying conversations.

    I agree with Jordi Lim though; kissing in porn is so underrated nowadays! It’s sad that some g4p actors refuse to kiss. The foreplay and chemistry are for me the most important things in porn.

  3. Are you kidding me Jason Phoenix is bisexual but refused to kiss a guy? What kind of bisexuality is that. Fool yourselves idiots. He is GAY 4 PAYER. Sell him to the straight slaves.

  4. ‘High end’ porn is boring. Its overproduced, over scripted and dull. The chemistry is fake, enhanced with editing, and the sex is stereotypical. The reason cheap amateur porn is winning isnt that its cheap (since its actually not to the consumer), its that its sexier and more real. People are sick of fake.

  5. Chi Chi hooked me many centuries ago with an odd little video titled “Lesbo a Go Go.” Something unique was evident in that no-budget production – a hip new porn aesthetic. At his best, he recalls Radley Metzger or Wakefield Poole with a dash of Russ Meyer. Think of the incalculable list of models Chi Chi has groomed for superstardom. It surely required some ingenuity to make a big straight dullard like Ken Ryker sizzle on screen. Thanks, Chi Chi, long may you rule!

  6. Ru and Chi Chi do have GREAT chemistry together, wouldn’t it be fun to see them with their own talk show or something?!?!!

    As for the negative comment about Chi Chi’s movies from Andy, I guess since you know so much about the industry you must be a porn mogul yourself, huh?! Seriously, porn is no different than music today and Chi Chi/Ru hit the nail on the head, when it is free everywhere and we have more and more people in poverty and/or falling out of the middle class there is only such much discretionary spending, paid-porn is the first to go. That said, there are other forms of entertainment that are thriving and money can still be made from sex entertainment, just in different avenues/venues.

  7. I wonder if budget is not a country thing. Some countries enjoy the finer things in life more than others. France for example might be more likely to spend big money

  8. Love this! This is like Seinfelds “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Except this is interesting. Seinfeld is painful to watch.

  9. awww yay! Love you Chi Chi & Ru!!!! this was such a cute video – thanks for sharing.
    You both have been such an inspiration in my life and career :)

    I loved “Wrong Side of the Tracks”, haha, guessed it – Johnny Hazzard is hot!! And I know “Soaked” for all sex film crossed your mind. :)

    big hugs & admiration…
    mr. Pam

  10. The reason why Chi Chi is not making any money is because her movies are BORING as hell. Same old actors and she refuses to shoot bareback porn. So THAT is where all the money is going. Because back in the days 18-year-old didn’t spend their money on porn either. Chi Ci is so stuck in the 90s… I wonder she still makes any money at all.

    1. LaRue and Mr. Pam always make the same move over and over again, evidently expecting different results. A great porn auteur once told me “to make great porn keep women and drag queens away from all aspects of the shoot (unless you want a finished product that mostly appeals to women and drag queens).”

  11. I watched the video, the pair crack me up, great chemistry and fun to watch…

    I admire Chi Chi attitude about letting stars make their own choices about what they do in porn!!

    I do however think it’s sad that porn doesn’t have the same budgets they used to… Scene that’s used to last well over 40 minutes with a lot of passion and chemistry and on location have been reduced to 20 minutes in a studio… And definitely no chemistry…

    And have you noticed that scenes these days have about 15 minutes of ‘foreplay’ then only about 5 minutes of actual sex… Not very sexy, unless you like just blow jobs…

    Miss the old style Cross Country or Velvet Mafia films!!!

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