Citing Industry “Chaos,” Greedy Studios, Ignorant Directors, And Bareback Backlash, Superstar Dean Monroe Announces Retirement

After nearly 13 years in the industry, Dean Monroe has announced his retirement, but don’t worry, he’s not going out quietly. The dashing Brit porn star has some choice words for everyone in a farewell retirement blog post entitled “Shame Shame Shame.”

Dean says that even after winning the highly prestigious Cybersocket Award for Best Porn Star in the beginning of 2013, studios refused to work with him because of his “just the tip” semi-bareback-but-not-really scene with Treasure Island Media. He also claims that Men.com won’t cast him because they only cast gay-for-payers (true) who haven’t ever been tested (not true—Men.com has mandatory testing.) Also, the photo on the left is of Dean Monroe in a Men.com scene, so…uhhh?

Anyway, Dean Monroe, everybody!

Shame Shame Shame

After 13 exciting and wonderful years in an industry that has given me confidence, creative expression, financial stability, the opportunity to travel and many life long friendships the gay porn world today has become a total disappointment.

Last year I said yes to a request by Treasure Island Media, the largest and most well know bareback studio, to shoot 2 scenes for them. One in London and the other in California. As through out my career  I’ve been a strong advocate of safe sex I agreed to it under the terms that the duo scene would be oral only and I would do a second jack off solo scene. All was agreed and the scenes were in the can.

At this point I need to add that most mainstream gay porn companies are now shooting bareback content. In the early 80’s after the Aids epidemic and discovery of the virus and how it was transmitted the gay porn world reacted by shooting condom only safe sex. It seems that today in 2013 the studios have decided to start relaxing the noose on condom use by shooting more bareback content due to it’s financial gain and due to the growing attitudes that its ok if you get infected you can still have a normal life the medication can control everything.

The backlash that followed the release of my 2 scenes for Treasure Island took me by surprise. On all the various blogs and websites the negative and hateful comments just kept pouring in. I had to break my silence and explain myself via thesword.com that seem to be the epicenter of the whole discussion. Well just like everything in porn the brawl lasted a mere few weeks and then was forgotten…..almost.

At the beginning of this year I received the Best Porn Star award at the Cybersockets voted on by the fans. With this in mind I returned to the U.S. with a fresh and eager attitude only to discover that not one of the many many studios I’ve collaborated with wanted to shoot me. This was a surprise and confusing to me but ultimately i knew the reason why. Which brings me to the situation in the industry today. In one word Chaos. Chaos in terms of the attitudes, the way people are cast, the standards that are followed and the greed and selfishness amongst the studio owners. In my situation no one wants to cast me because they believe i only do bareback now which means I’m likely HIV+ and that would be putting their filming at risk. Studios like MEN. com would prefer to use straight gay for pay actors who probably have never been tested rather than passionate gay performers who get tested regularly.

Unless there is a gold standard followed by the whole industry where every single performer is tested regularly before a shoot how can a studio know and decide on a models situation and whether he is suitable and safe. There is an ignorance and hypocrisy amongst studio directors today that is bringing the whole industry down and I only hope things will change very soon.

As for my situation I always knew the time would come when I would slowly have to say farewell and in no means is that sad. I’m happy to have made it through these 13 years happy, healthy, sane and still safe. And much wiser.

When I began writing this blog in 2006 with the utmost enthusiasm it was my goal to let the fans and readers into my life and my adventures in porn. I hope you have discovered something of interest and had a few “happy” moments along the way.

[Dean Monroe’s World]

Regardless of his reasoning for retiring, and regardless of how long he’s been making gay porn, Dean Monroe is still really hot. He hasn’t aged at all over the past decade, and he could still work for at least another five years. I hope he reconsiders.

On the left, Dean Monroe in 2005’s Bang Bang. On the right, Dean Monroe in 2012’s Point And Shoot (via Falcon Studios).

[Falcon Studios: D.O. Fucks Dean Monroe]

 

82 thoughts on “Citing Industry “Chaos,” Greedy Studios, Ignorant Directors, And Bareback Backlash, Superstar Dean Monroe Announces Retirement”

  1. Why stuck up photos of Dean when he looked decent?? He looks nothing like this now.. Covered in hideous tattoos and much leaner to the point where he looks ill. If he has an agent he should change him/her. His time is up,

    1. Doesn’t dean realise that whether it’s oral or full penetration, bareback or no bareback the risk of transmission is still there. I’m sure there is more behind studios not hiring him than just this scene. It’s a fickle business and Dean isnt a spring chicken. Besides I’ve heard he’s extremely difficult to work with

  2. This is gaslighting Dean, to try and pass the blame to others for your own mistakes and poor judgement. You signed the contract to do that scene and threw your toys out of the pram when you didn’t get the reaction you wanted. You need to grow up.

  3. Not sure why porn stars think viewers care what they think any more. Porn with rubbers is softcore and will not sell. Noone forces guys to fuck in porn and BB is what paying customers want.

  4. Dean Monroe has had some hot scenes with all the companies over the years.. he will be missed. And what a sexy man he is.

  5. Why doesn’t Falcon and Raging Stallion have a policy to test models for HIV? Seems like a logical and responsible solution to everyone.

  6. “Most mainstream companies”? I’m not sure, but since Lucas Entertainment flipped over to bareback this past week (of course, the justification will be that they shot the scene with a fluid-bonded couple), the last bit of hypocrisy has reared up its head…

  7. Umm, excuse me, but Christian Wilde did scenes with TIM….And he’s the industry’s darling. Not to mention that moron, Marc Dylan, among others. So why was Dean ostracized for it?

  8. To say that some of my neighbors in the weho area act as if they are entitled to a career and social outlet to exclusive groups and parties and the ability to live the life that is afforded to them is waiting 5 minutes for someone in the neighborhood to get into the industry somehow. The studios find a way of using any content over the span of recycling images and pornstars and it is pornstars who are replaceable 5 minutes when they think their career is secure. This industry is not required to employ any person or pornstar but can fire them without even knowing.

  9. I saw him this spring for the first time in person at Pineapple Point in Ft. Lauderdale, where he and the Chi Chi Larue crew were shooting…I think 3 movies. I was never a fan of his, only just because I’d say he wasn’t my type; that said, he is a really gorgeous man. He looks better now (at 40, I was surprised to find out) than earlier in his career to me. And I have liked some of his scenes in the past few years (a 3way with Devin Draz and John Magnum; another 3way with Joe and CJ Parker).

    That said, I am ambivalent as to whether he continues to do porn. I saw that TIM scene; unlike most of their scenes, where the cameraman might as well be a proctologist, he’s so far up into the bottom’s asshole, you can’t tell if Harley Everett put “the tip” in or not; they both say no, so I’ll take their word for it. Though I kind of don’t care.

    They both want to have it both ways; I’m making no apologies whatsoever for TIM (I think the guys in their movies are largely disgusting, but that’s, again, a subjective thing) but they make no bones about who they are and what they do; they glorify barebacking. Dean Monroe and Harley Everett knew that when they signed on. So I’m having a little trouble understanding why Dean Monroe is surprised that there was some blowback.

  10. His letter is inconsistent and poorly thought out. Plus, it wasn’t exactly a classy way to end a career. I know that porn is a pretty vacuous industry to be a part of, but I’m always disappointed when performers behave this way. He just doesn’t seem to have a good head on his shoulders. With everything that’s going on in the news these days, including Syria, the fact that this is what he’s passionate about represents a vapid worldview. I don’t know him, I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but he should have a better perspective, especially at his age. I hope he finds meaningful employment somewhere else.

  11. I’m sure Dean has experienced all of these woes and more. I don’t blame him for moving on. I don’t really have any commentary regarding his TIM scene. Whatever. I never got into his scenes because his ass is so flat. If you’re gonna be a power bottom you gotta have something back there

    1. Afraid not, he lives in a flat share in London,pretends to have an Audi and posts numerous filtered selfies on instagram. This guy merely feeds off the positive affirmation of others . He’s vain beyond belief and that it itself is ugly no mater how attractive you are

    1. Dean Monroe ….you certainly have got your moneys worth out of Gay porn… and your a great looking guy but its time for you to go…..As for the Treasure island stuff… you knew exactly what you were doing…..Theres still great debate wether Harley did insert his raw cock in you…….so on that note stop the hypocrisy…

  12. Ryan Rose is good people, but didn’t he do a bunch of bareback stuff before he went to Falcon ? He has fallen under no scrutiny whatsoever, why are you guys attacking Dean ? I applaud Dean Monroe. 10+ years in the biz, he wants to move on, and I’m sure he has a back up plan. Let people do what makes them happy.

  13. He claims BB backlash yet I’ve seen many twitter feeds where he is pictured primarily with TIM people from London. Whether they’re just friends, I don’t know, but to me it suspicious. Guilt by association.

  14. He was great the first 5 years. But like most porn performers, you are wearing out your welcome after 5 years. Wasnt his boyfriend a major bareback star though? That always confused me but maybe I am wrong.

  15. I’m very sorry DEan is leaving porn
    he’s a great performer and most of all a HOT gay and a great guy
    hope he returns

  16. I always liked him as a performer; he could deliver lines like most can’t. He’s not bad looking and has a killer bod. But…the reason he never got beyond my C-list as a performer was his pathetic cum shots, or many scenes with no cum shot. That’s inexcusable in porn of any genre, and I never understood why studios continued to use him because of his inability to produce them.

  17. I would love for him to go out with bang….like a bareback bang, kind of a big FU to all the hypocrites and haters. Why don’t you guys all go jerk off to some bareback Sean Cody or Corbin Fisher trash while you salivate over how straight and perfect they are.

  18. … This is what happens when playing with fire with fire! Sorry for you Dean, but it was obvious that your TIM scenes were the end of you fantastic carreer.
    I wish you -Dean- to have a long, far and well life. Do not play with fire any more.
    Thanks for having been a sexy and a very sexy performer in you movies (except the TIM, because I never watch bb scenes).

    I feel so bad for all of your colleagues becoming HIV+.
    I hate the bb companies, because they put at the highest risk nice guys, just to make more money?

  19. I’m wondering how much agism played in his lack of work. I believe that they are still working with older actors at some of the studios, but I still think ‘the younger, the better’ is a pretty solid rule being followed. Maybe he was just past his expiration date with 13 years on the shelf.

  20. Well this doesn’t come as a surprise. I don’t think it’s the fact that he worked with TIM that infuriated people the most, it’s that he called himself an advocate for safe sex but he let’s Harvey put in just enough of his dick inside him without a condom that could make a difference. That is pretty damn hypocritical. And also, not true that all studios would have turned their backs on him. Duckface’s studio has continued hiring Rafael Carerras and Jordano Santoro even after all their bareback scenes have come out. Perhaps relationships were already strained enough before his TIM performance that studios just simply used this excuse to have nothing to do with him.

    Also both of those photographs are terribly photoshopped. He actually has noticeably aged recently. You see it mostly in his face, but his body is much leaner than it was when he first started. Still, I was a big fan of his deliciously thick body. He will be missed as he is one of the best bottoms that porn has had.

  21. Dean Monroe did a bareback scene? When?
    I only saw him do one scene for TIM and not two. Is the bareback one a future release?

  22. I first saw Dean years ago in a BBC documentary, not in a porn scene. Don’t know what it was about exactly but Dean featured in it as an escort.

    It surprises me that someone who has been so long in the gay porn industry doesn’t know that when you work for Treasure Island Media you become a persona non grata for the mainstream condom gay porn studios. OK, there are one or two exceptions but these prove the rule. Dean should have known this.

    I congratulate Dean on staying safe after all these years.

    The last thing I saw from Dean was a recent preview clip from UKHotJocks. It was a solo and I found he looked tired and rough. If that 2012 picture from Falcon has not been photoshopped Dean has aged very fast in just 1 year.

  23. It is remarkable how well he has aged, considering most pornstars are wrung dry within a couple years. Bathing in the blood of twinks does a body good!

    1. I believe Dean originally comes from Greece. Maybe he has some genes of the Greek Gods (don’t ask me which one!).

      1. Dean was born in Australia to Greek parents but they moved back to Greece when he was 10, he told me a few weeks ago he was leaving porn over this next few months and wouldn’t do what most guys do and make a come back in 6 months, i have to say he is a really nice guy and very smart I find it funny when people will come on a blog like this and say “I don’t know what it is but i don’t like him” when they have never meet him! lol crazy gay bitches i guess!

    1. Depends on where the scene is produced. Many of the scenes produced in Europe and the UK feature “passionate gay men.” The outfit that shoots the Johnny Rapid scenes is based somewhere in the American South (I recognize Atlanta landmarks in some scenes). The guys is those scenes are OVERWHELMINGLY straight and GAY-FOR-PAY. It’s ridiculous! The scenes are almost always cookie-cutter and poorly put together. But what can could you expect from hiring STRAIGHT MEN to perform GAY sex acts. It’d be like hiring a Jainist raw foods vegan to work in a slaughterhouse with attached steakhouse/BBQ joint!

      1. I’m sorry, i’m the last person to believe that there’s no more to it than black or white, but do people still believe in this gay4pay crap? Give me a break.

        1. Are there some gay performers out there who are “playing it straight” (to appeal to the desperate females that actually pay for this crap)? Sure, but their numbers are infinitesimal compared to the number of straight, gay-for-pay performers out there sticking needles in their dick to get it up or else “pushing rope” into some unlucky bottom for two minutes at a time.

          1. I don’t know. Depending on how bad my finances are if you threw enough money at me I’d get all up in a vagina. And this guy loves nothing more than being plowed by a big dick. And I’ve tried with a woman once(I was young). I could get it up but as soon as it got close to her vag it went lip. Yep pretty sure I’m gay but for the right price I’d make an effort to play it straight and pretend to enjoy it.

        2. If I have to pay you to commit a gay sex act, that you otherwise have no desire to commit unless an incentive is involved, then you ARE gay-for-pay…

      2. It’s like going to Swinging Richards in Atlanta. For those of you who do not know about Swinging Richards it is an all nude all male “gay” strip bar. Sadly the large majority of dancers there are straight. There is a lot of women who comes into the bar, never tipping etc but the dancers pay more attention to them and trying to get pussy after work than paying for the gay clientele that is in there to spend our money to help pay their rent

        1. I hate straight guys who use us for their own needs whether money a career etc…

          Fuck men like them im not a damn toy to be used or a play thing for their own personal amusement.

          1. You can only be used if you allow yourself to be used. Send a strong message to the G4P community that emphatically states we don’t and won’t have anything to do with you.

  24. The gay world puzzles me. Bareback sex causes HIV(regardless if the persons are negative). Black is unattractive(as has been stated by many porn stars and commenters on here). Having sex with a condom is responsible but allowing him to shoot his load in my mouth is okay because you can’t get an STI that way. Seriously people its okay to bareback if you both are responsible, clean, and negative. If a woman can take cum in her vag I can take cum in my ass and its okay. Stop thinking HIV is caused by bare backing. It is transmitted through such a fashion but that would require at least one of the parties involved to be positive.

    1. Agreed, Louis. I always thought that was absurd that, if you make someone wear a condom because they have not been tested and you presume they may have diseases, yet when its time to cum, you let them pull off the condom and cum in your mouth.
      Here’s another puzzler for you: (Maybe you can explain this one to me) As someone who also watches straight porn, I can tell you that in certain scenes where a woman is receiving double penetration from two men, the man inside her pussy will be bareback, but the one in her ass is inexplicably wearing a condom. What exactly is this supposed to prevent?

      1. It’s to avoid sh*t getting on his dong and/or so that when he switches back, he doesn’t cause an infection in her vag with bacteria from her bungholio.

      2. I have noticed that as well in straight porn also. I for the most part assumed it was up to the male model. In all fairness I have talked to a lot of my straight friends about anal sex in general and most openly admitted to not prepping as well as us gays. When I top I always dread the notorious poop noodle(which is why I’m always prepped for bottoming). That or the female doesn’t like the idea of anal to vag, which I don’t get why cause after you’ve put it in your mouth after your butt its kind of a free for all.

      3. I’m not a woman nor do I watch straight porn (save for that one time) but I have spoken to my female friends about anal sex. It’s actually to prevent vaginal infections, in addition to preventing (trying to) the chocolate goop. It’s (and I quote) “okay to go from vag to ass bareback, but not from ass to vag.” Apparently, whatever’s in their assholes can cause infections. Odd. This is one reason I love, love, LOVE being a homosexual male.

    2. There are plenty ppl out there who don’t believe it’s ever possible to know if a sexually-active person is HIV negative due to the ‘windows’ that exist between exposure to HIV and a poz test result via the various testing methods. It’s pretty absurd.

      1. Completely agree. I personally am on the fence when it comes to Measure B. I kind of think that if you and your scene partner want to personally take that risk that who ever they hooked up with in the days between testing and the day of the shoot didn’t infect them then that’s on them. Yet I’m the guy that will sleep with you on the first date and will blow you with a condom on. At least till we have dated a while, become monogamous, and several test have constantly came back negative then you can put your load wherever.

  25. So… he thought people didn’t give a shit about safe sex anymore, so he went ahead and worked with the worst bareback company out there. Then he found out that people did still care about safe sex, and he’d taken up with the wrong side. And he expects our sympathy? He made his bed, he has to sleep in it, that’s how it works.

    There are enough porn stars out there that it doesn’t take much to piss me off and make me choose to watch somebody else. He passed that point when he worked with TIM.

      1. That’s probably because Colby Keller doesn’t make himself out to be the poster child of safe sex like Dean has. And also Colby never had a raw dick go anywhere near his ass in his TIM scene, whereas Dean had just enough put inside of him to possibly cause an HIV infection.

        Also, didn’t Sean Cody first start out as a barebacking company? And that was a decision as a company to go bareback, not one made by their exclusive models. Models were free to leave after they made the switch, which some of them did, including Robert who now goes by Robert Craig at Randy Blue. Also they take precautions before filming their barebacking scenes by testing the models beforehand, and it’s obvious that TIM does not do the same.

      2. Marcus Dylan did a bareback scene under the name Chris Gabriel. So, I don’t know why Dean would receive any backlash for an oral scene he did for TIM.

  26. Good riddance. I’m sorry, but I’ve always had an irrational hatred of him and I’m glad he’s leaving porn, hopefully forever.

      1. I don’t have the intense hatred for him, I’ve just been largely indifferent. I think it’s the weaselly smug expression permanently affixed to his face. I feel the same way about Derrick Hanson, but they both have great asses, so I’m usually too distracted to be bothered much.

        All that said, almost everybody (shy of Ron Jeremy) has to get out of porn sometime…

    1. Freddie, the commenter

      Lack of ‘symphathy’, maybe. An atitude that pass like…Look at me : ” I’m the supermodel of gay porn and prostitution “.

    2. Hi Dean. I truly enjoyed being in the industry with you for the past 10 years and enjoyed filming you humping. You’re awesome and forever sexy! I wish you all the luck with your next adventure. No regrets… you rock!! :)

      big hugs & love…your fan…
      – mr. Pam

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