Does Going Bareback Mean That A Gay Porn Studio Has Finally Hit Rock Bottom?

CollegeDudes.com released its first ever bareback anal sex scene last week, which follows its sister site BrokeStraightBoys and their transition to bareback content the week prior. Is “going bareback” a savvy business decision that coincides with industry trends, or is “going bareback” really just a gay porn studio’s desperate cry for help during an uncertain economic climate?

ChaosMen, BelAmi, Corbin Fisher, and Sean Cody all regularly film bareback content and all regularly receive generally favorable blog coverage. Several other studios also produce bareback content, but their models aren’t as hot/young, so they get less attention. Will CollegeDude’s bareback models be hot enough to receive positive buzz in the gay porn blogosphere? It’s too early to tell. Here’s their first bareback scene ever, “Brighton Cross Fucks Chris Hewitt Raw“:

Does barebacking signal the “end times” for cash-strapped studios, or can it reinvigorate company morale and increase sales?
Is STD testing enough to ensure a performer’s safety, or should gay porn studios also implement safe sex techniques like “pulling out” and the rhythm method?
If young people see gay porn stars having bareback anal sex, will they also become gay porn stars and have bareback anal sex?
Have you ever had bareback anal sex in order to increase your market value?
Does having bareback anal sex give you a better or worse reputation amongst your friends and family?
Has barebacking become too mainstream now, and if so what will be the next trend that replaces it?
Would you ever “go bareback” to generate buzz for your blog?
If you’ve already had bareback sex, did it feel as good as it looks in bareback gay porn?

 

21 thoughts on “Does Going Bareback Mean That A Gay Porn Studio Has Finally Hit Rock Bottom?”

  1. Hmm. Don’t have much of a problem with bareback porn. The actors take the risk not me. I find it loathsome when a performer such as Ricky Sinz uses condoms with a man but not with a women. I must admit it is scary knowing that a rather large part of certain gay sub cultures are going bareback as a norm. What will the gay community say when the drugs stop working. It is the one thing that the homophobic community uses against us. Not sure that they are wrong. Where is Larry Kramer when you need him.? Perhaps its time for someone to pick up the torch and say what the gay community does not want to hear.

  2. I think the trend in gay porn lately, has been catering to two aspects of the gay community: self-destruction (bareback sex) and self-loathing (gay for pay actors. For all the talk of pride and self-acceptance, I still think the majority of gay men hate themselves, and each other..And it shows, in our culture of reckless behavior, and preferring straight men over gays.

  3. Recent figures for the UK reported on this very site:
    1 in 20 “gay” men have HIV
    in London 1 in every 12

    Those are epidemic numbers that few diseases can pass!

    The total failure of HIV prevention efforts, the myopic focus of “gay leadership” on “gay marriage” and “families” when the total collapse of “gay community” allows for unchecked disease spreading, teen homelessness, the lack of support that causes suicides on a regular basis, hurray for “gay”, blah.

    I can’t watch most bare crack porn because it makes me sick to my stomach worrying about the consequences for the performers and the impact on the behavior of the audience.

  4. I have mixed feelings really. I used to like Sean Cody, as they USED TO BE strictly safe sex. Videos had been pulled in the past from it for being bareback as it caused a backlash!… How times change!, a little disappointed in the direction they took.

  5. I am an acquaintance one of the performers on BSB-he is straight and just recently bottomed on the site and they upped the ante and asked him to fly out for a bareback scene and tripled the pay..really sad because he needs the money

  6. I’m not necessarily against bareback, since these are consenting adults who are the only ones responsible for their actions. but, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS, bareback porn seems to be synonymous with cheap, poor-quality videos with unattractive men having very unerotic sex. personally, I don’t get the appeal of watching this, or what the mindset is.

    some people have mentioned young gay kids watching porn and how barebacking might “influence” them. MY GOD, what does this say about gay culture and the gay community? do young gays want to be more like “Chris Hewitt” than say, Gus Van Sant?? do young girls look more up to Jenna Jameson than to Hilary Clinton?? something is very twisted here..

  7. [This is a sincere question!] What does “cross fuck” actually mean? I’ve never heard the term before. Does it refer to the position in the picture? If so, woof :)

  8. The truth is that there are just too many gay porn studios and websites. The market is saturated and with all the piracy and free gay porn around this situation will not change (unless gay guys in China suddenly decide to become paying members of Western gay porn websites!). If the present economic situation continues the financial position for many gay porn companies only will get worser. Releasing bareback scenes might seem a way out of trouble but in the present competitive market this is questionable. BSB and CD are primarily up against CorbinFisher and SeanCody and these companies are miles ahead. In fact, so far ahead that it is difficult to see how BSB and CD can catch up with them. In Europe William Higgins started with bareback scenes last year but he went back to safe sex scenes this year as he has not released one bb scene on his own site recently (the bb scenes that were already filmed are released on BadPuppy or Str8Hell). I think Higgins, having witnessed the AIDS crisis in the 1980s at close hand, was very uneasy about going bb and I think a lot of members were angry as they saw WH as a refuge from bb porn. I think his experiment with bb scenes did not bring many new members in and he quietly returned to filming safe sex scenes.

    I watch bareback porn and enjoy it. Does that mean that I have bareback sex in real life? No. Never. I can make the difference between something I see on my computer or television screen and reality. Many people (Brent Corrigan among them) blame mainly bareback gay porn for the recent rise in HIV and other STI numbers in the USA. If I am correct the latest HIV figures from the CDC are for the year 2010. Sean Cody went bb only last year, CF I believe in 2011 and BA in very late 2010 (if I remember correctly). This leaves us with traditional bareback studios like TIM, HDK, SX Video, Helix, Cobra and some minor European studios. How convincing is it to lay all or most of the blame with these studios for the recent rise in HIV numbers for young American gay guys? In many West European countries the number of new HIV infection among gay guys is relative stable. Does this mean that European gay guys watch a lot less bareback porn than their American counterparts? Yeah, right … And if you watch only condom porn does this imply that you won’t have bb sex in real life ever? Yeah, right … Also: in the 1990s and early 2000s there was very little contemporary bb gay porn around but still guys became HIV infected. Should we blame the bb porn of the 1980s for this? Yeah, right …

    The reasons why people have bareback sex are probably manyfold and to lay all or most of the blame with bareback porn seems very one-sided to me. I think that young gay guys tend to think that HIV is not present in their age group and therefore do not practice safer sex. I hope that the latest American HIV figures are a wake up call to them.

    For the hardcore safe sex advocates: do you think condomfree oral sex should be banned? Some very nasty STI’s can be transmitted by having oral sex.

  9. I know probably not many people listen to The Bill Handel show, but he has been saying porn (let’s assume straight) is kind of boring once you add condoms in and I used to think it was just a weird notion then got to thinking porn is where you want to feel less inhibited and want a fantasy just like television shows we want a suspension of disbelief that they won’t get an STD/STI and with proper precautions from the studio everyone should be fine, though what do I know? I still haven’t had sex.

  10. CollegeDudes used to have some sexy boys, remember and all the pics were yellowish??? Like the blond one named something Carter.. These look like BSB’s. I think people are losing market share and trying anything. Reality is you have to focus on the brand period! In the end bareback may only help a little if you content was not appealing shortly before that.

  11. But have they gone too far?

    As for what would replace barebacking as the sexual no-no du jour, I’m voting for the genital cutting I saw on “Spartacus” last week.

  12. Gay men seem to live in a parallel universe where AIDS and other STDs don’t exist or are easily manageable. The hook up sites are full of men that when asked about ” safe sex ” answer: ‘ Never ‘; ‘ When appropriated ‘ ( meaning never );’ Sometimes safe ‘ ( never… ) I would like to say that people are able to separate porn and real life but I’m afraid many gay men are unable to do this or ( worst ) they don’t care. Who will give us respect seeing this attitudes?

  13. I like my porn bareback and condom-free since I and my sex partners appreciate becoming human petri dishes. Besides HIV, incurable diseases like herpes, hep C, and hpv also give me a mental high besides the obvious physical. That’s why Treasure Island is my favorite studio since it shows realistic romantic love-making that one I hope to also mirror. We live in a post-AIDS world where affordable and easy to obtain cocktails make minor diseases manageable. Condoms reduces honesty and loyalty in the gay community.

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