Hot Rod Lashes Out Over “Thug” Dildo: “Shame on you, Chi Chi LaRue”

An image of Hot Rod might be featured on the box for Rascal’s new “The Thug” dildo, but the well-hung African-American gay porn star wants you to know that The Thug itself does not represent him (or his dick) at all.

In a strongly worded blog post this week entitled “Shame On You, Chi Chi LaRue,” Hot Rod is lashing out at director LaRue and her Rascal sex toys line for what he says is a “disgusting” move: Using his image to market The Thug. Hot Rod reveals that The Thug is not an actual replica of his cock, and that things “clearly aren’t always what they seem.”

I apologize to any who have purchased The Thug sex toy by Chi Chi LaRue’s company, Rascal Toys, with the impression that you are getting a replica of me. While [Chi Chi] may have the right to use my image, he does NOT have the right to deceive you as the customer by allowing you to think this is a replica of me. The toy is in no way a replica of my penis. As flattering as this should be, it’s not. I’m ultimately disgusted by Ms. LaRue’s not-so-legit business strategy…things clearly aren’t always what they seem.

None of the Rascal dildos are exact replicas of gay porn stars’ dicks (just look at the one for Steven Daigle, which is 8 inches long), and porn stars have their images used for things they aren’t involved in all the time (calendars, cock rings, club flyers, DVDs). So what’s wrong with Hot Rod’s image being used to market The Thug?

Here’s Hot Rod in C1R’s Black Balled 8:

[C1R: Black Balled 8]

 

37 thoughts on “Hot Rod Lashes Out Over “Thug” Dildo: “Shame on you, Chi Chi LaRue””

  1. He should be happy and flattered because he looks amazing on the box for that dildo – their graphics person did an amazing job at making him look great – it would be far worse if it was some crappy non-touched-up pic.

  2. I’d be more upset that the dildo probably isn’t phathalate-free and therefore might cause cancer, such as the majority of all sex toys. It’s really time that there are stricter laws for sex toys… but well, which politician wants to be associated with fighting for safe sex toys?

  3. The Thug is exactly what it is intended to be. The product is neither molded to Hot Rod’s likeness, nor represents his actual length or girth. It certainly does NOT reference his stage hame. We use model pictures on many of our products. The Expeller has a picture of Brent Everett, that doesn’t mean the Expeller is Brent Everett. The Initiator features Rod Daily. We didn’t use any of Rod’s likeness to make the product. They are called promotional photographs. That is what Hot Rod posed for, and was paid for. This is a practice that is utilized industry wide for longer than I can remember, and that is a long time! The Thug is actually a very cool product that allows the user to change out a suction cup for a handle on the fly.
    BTW a big Thank You to Hot Rod for all the extra press and exposure!

  4. elvis singleton

    it’s not a race thing, these guys a “supposed” professional fuckers, be it top or bottom. Any person that likes to be gang banged, like me, never thinks about the color of the cock, but how long that cock can bust them out. Oh I recognize that the world is full of men that either fear race or not, but in truth, i have found, in my experience, that the equation of cock is equal to the motion times the power of delivery. (C=m*P(d)). it basic math, if you can deliver 9″ harder than 12″ is not equal to 5 guys that can deliver 10″ hard and rough on a regular basis. simply put give 5 guys that can drive 10″ hard and rough, and you won’t here me saying a damn word other than “fuck my ass harder bitch”.

  5. Hot Rod got a mention on here. Gotta love that hot cock, loved his scene with Jake Steel over at Lucas from way back!

  6. Perez Hilton isRon Pearlman

    Why didn’t they name it “the rainbow pusher” in honor of all the wonderful things Jesse Jackson does for race relations?

  7. The first edition of this item will be like what the first editions of the Harry Potter books are to the book publishing industry.

  8. He should have looked at his contract, and how his image could be used. All the more reason to use a good agent in the industry.

    The scene’s and content can be used in any way, in perpetuity by production, and anyone they happen to sell it to, down the line.

  9. Porn and porn products are made primarily to cater to their consumer (White males), which is why a big Black dildo would be called, “The Thug”…But, they arent racist anymore *cough, cough*, so I’m sure this offensive product won’t sell…

  10. Somebody’s going all bitchy because he either (a) didn’t get a percentage on the photo’s use (if that’s it: learn to READ so you know what your contract says); or (b) didn’t get the publicity of having his NAME on the product (obviously ‘Hot Rod’ is not the only ‘THUG’ in the marketplace, nor does he have a trademark on ‘THUG’ … hell, Michael Brandon probably doesn’t even have a trademark for his ‘Monster’ and it’s got a much BIGGER name recognition for Michael than ‘Thug’ does for … what was his name, again?

  11. If you get into porn be smart enough to hold onto the RIGHTS of your name and image…I scuff and laugh at how many gay men have been scammed out of their rights from Chi Chi, Sean Cody and countless others…they are getting RICH and you are barely making a living…

    1. Well, no one in the industry reads the fine print. They see easy money–however, they don’t realize how short-term it is. Especially, when you want to work with other studios. They can’t use you when you sign exclusivity.

      It would be smart or entrepreneurial to come up with your own website and have your own shoots with whom you want to fuck. However, it is a bloated marketplace and lots of free porn online. You wouldn’t make a profit.

      1. CD is such a know it all/above it all that tries to make himself feel better about his shoddy lot in life (hooker) by convincing himself he knows and/or understands more about life and living than other people (non-hookers). His blog is funny everyone should read it.

      2. HotRod sold the rights to his likeness. He happily spent the few hundred he got to engage in sex on cam. He’s only upset that he didn’t think of the idea of making his own toys based off of his dick.
        He’s already lost this fight, Chi Chi La Rue isn’t going to stop selling dildos & making money & HotRod isn’t going to come out with his own dildo. So while he may be upset, there’s nothing he can do about, outside of writing that little message.

  12. See, if they had roles reversed of a bunch of white guys tapping the ass of a black twink, then it be called racism! :D Ugh.

    1. You just wrote the dumbest comment. Ever. Bravo.

      As for Hod Rod’s complaint, it’s the Chi Chi. Great director, but working out her race issues.

      1. I don’t get the impression that she’s “working out” anything. Therapy is for working things out; what she’s doing is closer to Robin Thicke.

    2. your points made my day, i’ll drink to that! everyone’a allowed to have opinion, but i kinda think shouldn’t using someone’s name be at least discussed with the oncened one? just saying…

      1. Unfortunately these “pornstars” don’t even own the rights to anything. So someone like Chi Chi La Rue can legally use their likeness on their products, because these guys essentially have sold their “stage names”, likenesses, body parts, & sex acts for a few dollars. When at the end it’s the porn studio heads who are making all this money off these deluded dudes.
        It’s 2015 & HotRod still hasn’t come out with a dildo. So yea, he basically sold his “soul” & now he’s regretting it. Well what can you expect, he started porn @ age 19. He had no one to help him navigate through the porn industry, otherwise he wouldn’t be the King of “Raw Black Gay Porn”.

    3. Actually I think that would be fucking hot, with the exception of the twink part. Interracial scenes are hot as hell. I love a big strong black man who isn’t afraid of taking it up the ass, which is why Race Cooper is one of my all-time favorite performers. And him in a gangbang where he’s being fucked by a bunch of white guys sounds hot to me, but there’s also no harm in an interracial gangbang either.

      So your comment is so fucking stupid.

      1. Well, when you don’t see a lot of white guys gang banging a black person–you kinda of wonder why? Is it racist to have it? Where are those scenes with a bunch of white guyz fucking black bottoms? Why aren’t those scenes being produced? There is a product out there for racial gang bangs, but not in different configurations which could happen in a gang bang. Only one. Multiple black men fucking a white dude. Nothing wrong with it. However, it seems a little bit contrived as a racial stereotype.

        Of course, you could have a bunch of Latinos, or whatever configuration you can think of, in a gang bang. Can’t we have a multi-national/racial gang bang?? LOL.

        Having a bunch of black men fucking a white dude does seem a bit racist. ON both parts of the white guy and the black men in the shoot. Black men + White Guy = gang rape. Didn’t you see Birth of a Nation? They race baited people into thinking blacks were innately incapable of civility, and included scenes of black men raping whites. It was wrong then. And even if it is a fetish video, it is wrong now. Who buys this?

        People, rage-aholics, calm the fuck down.

          1. Yes, WHAT THE WORLD >REALLY< DOES NOT NEED is some loser who tries to pick fights on a popular porn blog because his own blog is full of crap info and loser porn stars because he cant do better…oops or is it all a publicity stunt so we click the link wondering WHO IS THIS TWATHOLE?

        1. Did I claim ownership of the internet, you freaking freak? Go take your cray cray pills and have a cup of tea. Might calm your silly ass down.

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