Tyson Tyler Talks Champagne Enemas, Why He Won’t Bareback, and Racism in Porn

One of the perils of interviewing porn stars is that they can, on rare occasions, be unreliable in their appointment making.

Case in point: last Friday, I began a Skype call with ultra-hot British porn star Tyson Tyler, who achieved breakout success this past year, working for studios like Cazzo Club, NakedSword, Raging Stallion, and Lucas. Within seven minutes it was clear that the connection was so poor as to make the interview impossible. Tyler let slip that he was headed to New York the following day, so we arranged to meet on Sunday for brunch. But Tyler didn’t show, and I just chalked it up to said unreliability. Was he a drug mess? Busy with needy clients? But via email a plausible explanation was soon provided and another date made. Tyler didn’t show at that one either. Finally, this afternoon, after much back and forth, and a heartfelt apology, we met for lunch and within minutes, any resentment I had quickly melted away as I stared at his intensely muscled arms and listened to his extremely forthright stories about dealing with crazy directors, his passionate take on porn’s affect on young people, and what he plans to do in the future.

So we’ve had a tough road getting to this interview. First on Friday we were talking on the phone and then there was a bad connection. Then we arranged to meet on Sunday but then you didn’t show up.

My iPad got stolen, phone got stolen…

How did that happen?

I was staying in the Hotel Pennsylvania, it’s an awful hotel. I went next door to the coffee place, I put my bag down. Me being stupid I went to the toilet and left it in the seat, and I came back and the bag was still there, and everything inside was gone by the time I got inside the hotel. So I rang my phone and it was cut off.

NSV020_Cheaters_TysonTyler_affilVert_1-683x1024Why did you leave your valuables in a place you didn’t know?

I’m just an idiot. I thought it would be safe.

What did you do then?

I had to ring my phone company and cancel the phone, so I went to the Apple store and had to buy a new iPad. But by the time I get back home I can get the money back, from insurance. But it’s just nuts because everything was on the iPad.

What did you lose?

Bank statements, invoices, pictures, confirmations for flights.

That sucks.

Well but it’s all in the cloud actually. My holiday photos, and my sister who just had a baby sent me photos.

So you wrote that you also had to work a lot to make up the money you lost?

Yeah, because I escort as well.

I know.

So I went to do overnights.

Because they pay more money?

Yeah.

When you’re doing overnights, do the guys fuck you all night, or do they fuck you a few times and go to sleep?

Yeah. It’s one o’clock in the morning and they’re tired so it was just a few times. The other one stayed up all night long –

Fucking you?

No. Talking.

So they pay you to stay over all night and you just talk?

A lot of it is like, they tell you their problems and you listen.

If they’re paying, why not? It’s easier than getting pounded all night.

I’d prefer that actually.

You’d rather be pounded all night?

Yeah. It’s quite interesting though.

What did you learn from your clients?

Oh everyone seems to be married with kids. But they’re too scared to come out. Even in the UK it’s quite a common thing. On the Friday’s they go back to the kids and family, and on Sunday nights, boom, they come back to you. But they’re nice people, just a bit confused.

Do you ever encourage them and say, “Your life would be better if you come out”?

Yeah but they say oh it’s hard, my parents wouldn’t accept me. And I say, “You’re living for someone else.” They know this but they’re too scared to leave their wives.

They’re older than you I’m assuming.

Yeah. Fifties, or late forties.

They’re from a different era, when they were growing up, it was —

— Illegal to be gay.

It was illegal in England until the 80’s right?

Yeah. I’m like why would you have kids anyway?

They grew up with a vision of what their lives should look like. Having kids fulfills the vision.

Two kids, picket fence, nice house. I actually had one wife turn up at my door.

Really? When was this?

Weeks ago. It was six in the morning. She was there with his phone in her hand. Pounding on my door. She was like “Can you explain these texts?” I was like, “You have to talk to your husband.” She was like “But can you just explain it?” Because she already knew. She just needed confirmation. She was steaming at first, but left crying. Most of the time I don’t feel guilty, but when you see the wife you do. She had bank transfer statements, from his account to mine. She was like, “He comes home and doesn’t sleep with me anymore.” But see they have two different concepts of what’s going on. He says “She just doesn’t love me anymore…”

That’s crazy.

After that for a month and a half I didn’t work. I was so guilty. My housemates were really harsh. They blamed me.

Do they know what you do?

Yeah. They’re 9-to-5-ers. They were like “Maybe you should think about a real job.”

tyson-cazzoYou’ve been doing this for how long?

A year and a half. I want to stop escorting by January. I like what I do, but I can’t have a relationship. I can’t have ties with anyone.

Do you worry that it will taint your future relationships?

At the moment yes, but in the future, no.

You’ll find someone who is okay with your sordid past?

Yeah. In London, doing porn is fine, but being an escort is a different issue. I met a guy who was like, “I do like you but it’s the escorting I can’t deal with.” If we’re together and I get a phone call, I feel guilty because I know I have to go sleep with someone else, and he feels like shit. And then I come back home to him.

That’s what a lot of people in the industry who do escorting I talk to say, they can’t have a relationship and be an escort.

Guys will say, “I don’t mind.” But of course they do.

What got you into it?

The first time was so I could move to London. I lived in Manchester before. I left school and I needed 2,500 to put the first month’s deposit down on an apartment. So I escorted for a month and a half, got the money and then left. Escorts in Manchester are hated. You’re an outcast. In London it’s fine. Everyone there is sort of an escort anyway. It’s more accepted.

Why do they hate it in Manchester?

I dunno why it is. If you’re an escort you’re just hated. You’re trash. Manchester is a small town and the rentboy site is called Manchester Lads. If you’re on that everyone knows you’re on that. As you go out, people refuse to talk to you.

Because they think you’re just after their money.

Yeah. If you’re chatting someone up, they’re like, “I don’t pay for sex.” I’m like, “I didn’t ask you for money.”

When you started doing escorting what was the goal?

I was doing a course at Rush, this hair salon, and it was 2,500 for the course but you jump on to doing TV hair afterwards. So I did that for a bit, and then the schedule was grueling and I didn’t like it. I wanted to work for myself. There was no appreciation for any of my work. You do a good job, and nobody cared at all. Then I did porn. I did one in Manchester and then Cazzo called, and I was like, maybe this could be a career. I met a guy called Amico, who does my social media, and we sat down and we plotted it out. If we do this, this and this, we’ll get you to this point. So he does all my tweets for the American market and I do London.

Do most porn stars have social media guys? It seems uncommon.

Yeah, no. I had to take it over recently and I was like wow, how can one person manage all this. It’s really a lot to do.

Tell me about working for Cazzo. I haven’t talked to anybody who shot for them. What’s doing a scene like for them. The porns always come out so hot.

Sooo hot, but hard work. The hardest work I’ve ever done.

Why?

The director has a vision, but he’s weird talking to people, and the models. If he doesn’t like what you’re doing, it’s like, “You fucking shit, what the fuck are you doing? I’m not gonna use you again.” When you’re putting the model down, he’s not gonna get a hardon because he’s upset. So you stop filming, have a tantrum and then come back, apologize, and it starts again. Now the model doesn’t want to do what he’s doing.

That’s an insane way to direct porn.

Yes. So the sound man and the camera guy try to make you feel better. So I went into the other room and was like “We’re not going to finish the scene because of the way you carried on. You killed the scene, you killed the atmosphere.”

This was all directed at you, these insults?

No. The other model. He’s nearly in tears because it’s his first time. So we wasted all that time and money the first day, and then we went back the next day to re-do it, and the same thing happened again. But now he’s been fired. Last year they went into bankruptcy. So they had to get someone new to take over again, so now Cazzo only does bareback, because they have to make he money back. But it was the best work I’ve ever done, best pictures. Hottest. But the shoot was horrible.

That’s a really crazy story.

But it made me stronger for what was next.

Was there a racial element to it?

No. He was white. In Berlin, they love black guys. It’s a fetish. But the director was just really off. I wondered if all directors were like that. But the next set was totally different.

Most of the people I talk to say nice things about their directors.

Steve Cruz is amazing. He’s a friend. Anything you needed, take a break, have a drink. Quite attentive. Really a nice experience.

Tyson fucking Shawn Wolfe in Raging Stallion's 'Into Darkness'
Tyson fucking Shawn Wolfe in Raging Stallion’s ‘Into Darkness

 

Who taught you how to have sex?

Me. I love sex. The more sex you have, the better you get.

Who were you sleeping with?

Boys, girls. Then when I was 17, I got into my first relationship for five years and he was older and had been around the block and he taught me everything I know.

What were some of the things he taught you?

Fisting, double penetration, champagne in the bum…

You’ve had a champagne bottle up your ass?

Yeah and then beer.

He was really into fetishes.

I didn’t realize this until we got to Berlin. Then we had sex all weekend and I came back with a whole different concept of what sex was.

I don’t think I would want a champagne enema.

Try it. It’s really good.

Because you get drunk?

No, because the bubbles tease you. They tingle.

Then you spray it out all over him?

Yeah. He was filthy.

You got a master’s degree in sex. What is the kinkiest thing you’ve ever done?

Fisting with black oil lube. It was for Cazzo, in a car garage, using black oil lube. It was kind of hot, but kind of gross.

Have you done bareback porn?

No. I can’t do it.

Tell me why.

I can watch it, it’s just, if I go to my Twitter, people look up to me, and admire me, and if they see me not using condoms they’ll think, “Oh it’s okay, I don’t need to do it either.” I had a young friend Toby, who just moved to London, and he asked me “Do you do bareback?” And I said no. He said, “I’ve been doing it since I came here.” It’s normal, everyone seems to be doing it. Then two months later, he gets HIV. He said, “They just say they’re clean these guys.” And he watched all this bareback porn and thought you couldn’t do porn if you were HIV positive. It’s not true. As a child he sees this in porn and he does it himself.

The reality is a lot of guys in porn are HIV positive and you don’t see any disclaimers before the films.

He came from a small town, I came from a small town, and the information is just not out there.

Now people are on PrEP, what do you think about that?

Right, but you still have to wear a condom. When I go back to London in December, I’m working with this organization called Positive East, and we’re going to go around to schools and colleges and talk to students and try to educate them. My friend is a teacher and he’s like, these kids are barebacking.

Gay kids?

Yeah.

Because they see it all in porn?

Yeah. They’re not clued up. They think if someone says they’re safe it’s fine. And they think porn is real sex. People ask me, “Oh how do you carry on for that long?” I don’t.

So you’re going to go and talk and tell them you’re a porn star?

Yeah. Even in London there’s no information about safe sex. There’s a few posters here and there, but in the magazines, there’s no references to safe sex, just “Come in and get tested…” I’m writing a comic at the moment – a superhero who teaches people how to be safe. I’m trying to make it a bit more younger-market for some of these kids.

Did you ever read Sandman by Neil Gaiman? There’s a great side issue with his sister, Death, who explains how to put on a condom. You should check it out.

That sounds great. When I go out people want to talk to me and listen so I think if I was able to go around and talk to people about this stuff, people would listen. Most people just don’t use condoms there any more.

Do the bars have condoms in them any more?

Yes but they’re off to the side. Anyway, the more you see it in porn, the more you think that’s just how it is in real life too.

Yeah, I mean, I’m fine if you’re a porn star and you want to make that choice, but my problem has always been the people who get their sole information on how to have sex and be safe from porn.

Slamming is also a big thing. All the kids are jumping on that bandwagon.

It seems like if you transfer out of porn, maybe this type of HIV education and outreach work could be something you get into.

This is the end game. Everyone is just lost. They think this is the way to do it and it’s the way to be cool.

tyson-cumWhen you were coming up in the world of porn did you have black role models, and was that something that was important to you?

Matthew Rush. I always loved Matthew Rush.

What about him spoke to you?

I never met him, but just the way he looked, carried him, the way he spoke.

I don’t think I realized for a very long time that he was black.

No?

Yeah. I always thought he was a dark-skinned white guy.

Yeah my friend thought the same thing.

Was Diesel Washington someone you looked up to?

I only discovered Diesel last year. We became friends. I like him. He’s very cool and down to earth. He’s not rude. He’s just real. And then I met Jay Black. He’s cool too. Bit of a chip on the shoulder, but from here to there, still cool.

Who was the guy you just shot with in Canada for Next Door Ebony?

XL. Beautiful boy.

Does the situation of black models in porn concern you, and is it something you try to correct?

Yes. To get on a magazine in London, on the front cover, black doesn’t sell so they won’t put you on it. So last year I was like, let’s change this, I met with the sex stores and the big chains that sell magazines. I did covers for free to show them that the magazines would sell. And they were the biggest sellers ever. They always think it’s going to be ghetto. But it can be different. Now as you flip through the issues there’s more men of color. It’s hard work but I love it. There was a party in London for black guys called Booytlicious, and the guys were too scared to go into Vauxhall. But now things are changing. I talk to people about how to get out and make conversation and break down the barrier.

Have you ever had an experience on set where a white model wouldn’t sleep with you?

Not on set. But beforehand. The whole thing was set to go and they didn’t show him the picture and then when he saw it he said, “I don’t sleep with men of color. It’s not my thing.” He said it to the director, who was my friend. He told me. Bit of a shock. I knew there was racism in the world, but when it came to porn I thought it would be fine but no. But my experience has been pretty good. Except for last year with those YouTube videos of porn stars saying they wouldn’t sleep with black guys.

That is the dirty little secret of porn, that many white models won’t work with black guys.

That’s was my goal, to go down the mainstream route and show people what a black porn star could be. I wanted to do mainstream porn. Not the ghetto stuff.

What’s your ultimate goal? You’ve worked with so many people.

I want to work with Hot House. I wanted to do Colt, but then they got in touch with me and I just did Buckshot.

How is the UK porn scene different?

It’s extortion. Every studio in London, if you do a scene you get $400 dollars, but you realize they make triple the amount off you. I did two scenes and then I came to America. I saved all year, and knew if I got a studio behind me, and came back to England and I was popular, then I could set my price. Otherwise I’d be screwed. Then I came back and was like, “This is what I want.” And they paid it.

The strange thing to me is that no UK porn stars come to America and cross over.

No one crosses over. Yeah, the first year you might lose money over here, but then you make more money. I try to tell my friends but they won’t do it! They like to stay in their comfort zones. They’re popular there so they don’t need to go anywhere else.

Do you believe in a higher power?

I believe in energy and spirits, but God? No. It’s just war, murder, Christian stuff, this is how you should live, don’t think, don’t ask questions. It’s a cult.

Is there something about yourself that you’re embarrassed by?

My teeth.

Because there’s a little gap? It’s kind of character building.

Yeah everyone says that, but for me I don’t like smiling on the side.

You can save up –

I am. I’d love straight teeth.

I have crazy teeth on the bottom.

But you have a full set.

Were you a queeny little kid?

I used to have blonde and pink hair, because I thought I needed to be wild and out there on the scene in Manchester.

You have a fabulous fashion sense now though.

Yes. I love it, but before it was a hot mess.

Why is January the date for ending escorting?

It’s a 2-year date because if you keep escorting for too long you become dead inside. Or you’re not able to go do another job because you’re not going to make the same money. You can’t get a boyfriend, you lose clients. You lose that part of yourself and I want to keep it.

Do you have famous clients?

Yes. I have four.

How much longer do you plan to do porn?

Half a year.

And then you want to move more into the HIV education work?

Yeah. And I’m doing a line of jocks and vests with my friend who works for Miu Miu. We’re working on designs and sketches. And then I just had a meeting with Bruce LaBruce and he’s going to make my comic book into a film. I showed him the storyboard and he liked it.

That’s a nice thing for you and Bruce to do.

Yeah. Next year is going to be really exciting for me!

 

Below watch Tyson in a clip from a scene with Ray Diaz in NakedSword’s Cheaters.

 

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Adam Baran is a filmmaker, blogger, former online editor of Butt Magazine and co-curator of Queer/Art/Film. His short film JACKPOT, about a porn-hunting gay teen, won Best Short Film at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and was recently featured on The Huffington Post, Queerty, and Towleroad, among others. He is a features programmer at Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival and NewFest in New York. In his spare time, he complains about things to his friends. “Fisting for Compliments”, his weekly musings about the intersection of sex, art, porn, and history, will appear every Monday on TheSword. You can contact him at Adam@TheSword.com and follow him on Twitter at @ABaran999. Check out his previous columns in the Fisting For Compliments Archive.

32 thoughts on “Tyson Tyler Talks Champagne Enemas, Why He Won’t Bareback, and Racism in Porn”

  1. Stupidity is what those who watch bareback porn and then run out and mimic that same behavior in thier real sex life have, Because they need to remember porn is entertainment just like a Hollywood Blockbuster it is to entertain not teach. If you watch the latest Superhero movie where they had a shootout and car chase. You wouldn’t go do that out in public because it was in a mnovie, same goes for porn. Those that don’t understand that are idiots.

  2. great interview and I always respect escort who have famous clients that never spill the bean even though as a reader, I would cut a bitch to find out who were the four that he mentioned lol.

  3. What’s ironic is these porn workers wouldn’t bareback on film.
    But for the rite price they will when they escort…LoL

    1. i abhor and loathe men who take a disdain look on escorts, most escorts who are hiv negative will not get barebacked for whatever rate…..and right they are

  4. Good interview, Tyson sounds like he has his head on straight and knows exactly what he’s doing where he wants to go and how he’s going to get there, wish him the best of luck.

  5. Ok I am not being critical but I sense some hypocrisy here. He has sex with strangers for money which is pretty low standards. I agree unsafe sex is bad and support him in his beliefs. But look at the video picture of him gobbling cum in a gay porn. That is just as unsafe as unprotected anal sex. And to imagine all this hypocrisy with a British accent is the biggest turn off ever. Maybe he can hook up with Paddy.

    1. Eating cum is not as equally unsafe as unprotected anal sex. You can’t get HIV from eating cum unless you have open wounds inside of your mouth. Same goes for a few other STDs.

    2. any doctor will tell you that eating cum carries zero risk of HIV transmission. Never been a proven case of transmission that way. And even the open cut thing is extremely low-risk. Saliva is not conducive to HIV transmission.

      1. LOL you guys must live in San Francisco for a doctor to tell anyone that. Open wounds in the mouth? No you don’t have to go that far. Just flossing your teeth or brushing to hard can draw blood. There are corners in the mouth between teeth that can cause HIV infection. This is not 1989. There are countless HIV infections with semen on skin and in the mouth with extremely tiny abrasions that open the levies for HIV infection.
        You guys really need to educate yourselves. Just wow!

        1. Please point out a reputable source where data shows that countless people have contracted hiv through oral sex. Hiv experts have always put it at 1 and 10000. Everyone has small cuts in their mouth. Unless you have a huge, gaping life threatening wound in your mouth (which at that point and someone’s blowing a load in your mouth, I would think sucking dick was the last thing on a persons mind) then your chances of getting hiv from sucking dick are nil.

        2. Estelle is quite right. And no, my doctor is in New York, not San Francisco, though any doctor in either city or anywhere else who deals with HIV and sees gay patients will tell you the same thing. My doctor sees hundreds of gay men, some with and some without HIV. There has never been a documented case of HIV transmission through oral sex. If you find one, please enlighten me.

    3. Right, we can get some diseases or possibly AIDS by performing an oral sex and eating semen I know it bcoz I read that in many books it’s better if we have a condom always or not to hook up with strangers.

      1. Doctors technically consider oral sex to be safe sex but be warned that there are more nasty std’s and sti’s out there other than hiv that can be transmitted via oral sex. Random hook ups and having a couple partners is like dodging a bullet every time. The bullets being(Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Herpes, Urethra infections, warts, HPV, and HIV)

  6. hmm, i liked the interview nevertheless a few remarks.
    As an escort Tyson is soo fuck’n unprofessionale, twice i had a rendez-vous with him, twice he let me fown waiting without any notification. So what happened above to the interviewer doesn’t surprise me.
    Men of color are EXTREMELY popular on xtube, xvideos etc, so the white don’t like blacks etc’ makes no sense…Tyler johnson, santos, colin black etc are ADORED
    As a pornstar i like tyler, he’s involved, good kisser etc, but still that escort shit still lingers on my head when i watch him, he still turns me on, but i don’t desire him anymore

    1. Vince your missing the fact that site like xtube, xvideos, redtube & etc have scenes downloaded to them, they’re numerous studios that will not hire black models at all and if your latino you have to be white if your a brown skin latino forget it.

  7. This black guy is beautiful the funny thing he seems to have an Asian eyes..What got me interested here was those clients happen to be married and had kids..really? So these clients were gays. 2 yrs ago a friend of mine who loves BASKETBALL, married w/ 2 kids as well wasnt kidding when he wanted to have a relationship with me. Oh dont understand guys now. Anyway, Goodluck to his future endeavours.

  8. Love this guy he’s so fucking beautiful inside and out! Great interview!

    I especially love that he has his future planned out.

    Also wanted to mention that it’s a difficult task for models to come over here and do shoots, even if they try and go about doing it the legal way. Sometimes you get caught doing work here in the US like Rogan Richards did and you end up in customs and sent back to wherever you flew in from.

    And I was told by another English pornstar that getting a work VISA isn’t that easy you have to have someone sponsor you, and if a US porn company offers to sponsor you, they want an exclusivity contract in exchange for that. So that doesn’t really benefit the model that much if they want to go at it as a free agent.

  9. Once again another interview with a hot guy that rarely gets covered on these sights Bravo! Love Tyson such a hot guy, big dick and killer body, will be sorry to see him go but it is nice that he has a plan when he gets out of the business.

  10. Does anyone else find it sad that the younger generation has to rely on porn for sexual education?

    Also he thinks the sex ed is bad in London, at least they aren’t like schools in the US with the whole abstinence is the only way BS.

    1. I think it’s sad that people like him truly think it’s porn’s fault for the “younger generation” barebacking and that it’s their responsibility to “teach the children” about safe sex using porn. That’s a bunch of bull.

      1. I agree. I think people like Tyler have a false perception, which is very strange considering the lifestyle he lives. A lot of people are trying to scapegoat bareback porn. Bareback porn isn’t the problem. People don’t like to wear condoms because they’re unnatural. First thing these sex educators should realize is what they’re asking people to do. They’re asking people to turn one of the most organic acts on Earth into something that is inorganic by wearing a synthetic suffocation device around their genitals. See…when I word it like that it sounds completely absurd. I think these sex educators need to dig deeper and have deeper discussions about this subject, other than saying “wrap it up” and trying to scapegoat bareback porn. Good luck to them.

        1. Devin you nailed it! Sex should remain a “natural organic act” not some modified inorganic experiment. If I watch porn, I prefer it RAW.

      2. I don’t think it’s only porn’s fault but porn does play a role in it. The real problem as I was pointing out is lack of sexual education in school.

      3. He makes a valid point, there isn’t the HIV/AIDS education going on today like there was in the 80’s & 90’s. Just because you see people who have lived longer with the virus and AIDS you need to be educated on the flip side of it, the amount of medication that they have to take a day everyday. Prep isn’t a cure and is giving a lot of gay men a false sense of security. Fuck raw if you want just don’t blame anyone but yourself if you come up with HIV or a STI.

        1. There isn’t as much education around it because it’s not a new thing or obliterating the community like it was decades ago. HIV/AIDS is a very well known disease, people know you can get it and that there’s no cure. There’s information available at your fingertips on your smartphone, or your computer. It’s not like people are totally without the faintest clue of what stds are. People just aren’t responsible. You can’t blame porn for irresponsible sexual behavior. Do you blame women getting raped on the thousands of rape porn scenes out there? Or what about unplanned pregnancies…that’s porn’s fault right?

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