Dumb Gay Porn Stars Are People, Too

I’m getting just a little bit tired of you people in the mainstream gay and gay-friendly media—Salon, Queerty, Out, Logo, Huffington Post, Advocate, etc.—co-opting and exploiting “intellectual” gay porn stars like Francois Sagat and Colby Keller and Conner Habib to show that not all gay porn stars are mentally retarded.

Some gay porn stars can be intelligent and articulate and are able to speak and/or write in complete sentences? Fine. But stop acting like you aren’t using these porn stars as a way to bring in new readers who are only skimming your article for a few seconds before they resume masturbating (which is what everyone does on the internet all day long anyway) to whomever the article is about. Please. What about stupid gay porn stars who didn’t graduate high school and who are as dumb as a box of rocks? They don’t exist? I guarantee they will bring you just as much traffic. It’s time for the lamestream media to trot out an idiot with a big cock and a bubble butt who doesn’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re” for a change, because the novelty that a gay porn star can be –gasp!– smart and sexy at the same time is boring.

I want all the queens at the lame gay blogs and dying gay rags to drop the act and celebrate a gay porn star for being hot and absolutely nothing else. No personal essays, no music videos, no conceptual art, no advice and no “opinions,” just what he looks like naked. I want to see the mainstream appreciate a gay porn star who is really, really hot and really, really dumb.

 

23 thoughts on “Dumb Gay Porn Stars Are People, Too”

  1. Shadow Sterling

    I agree these men are all quite beautiful and brave. However can’t we celebrate the beautiful human side of them also? They are bombarded by enough negativism as it is. I for one will continue to compliment when I can rather than disparage. Life is to short.

  2. I nominate:
    James Huntsman to editor in chief of the New Yorker!
    Spencer Fox to write for Vanity Fair!
    Rod Daily for Harper’s!
    Cliff Jensen for The Economist!

    1. Given how sucky The New Yorker has been of late, Huntsman can only help.

      I’d hate to see how twisted Graydon Carter’s panties would be…

  3. I try not to be offensive but honestly, what are you complaining about? Seriously! Don’t you have a drawer to clean out or an inbox to clear? Laundry to fold, maybe?

    You say you’d like gay publications to highlight dumb porn stars for being dumb porn stars… Are there any other cliches we can dig up for you?

    Crappy art comes out of lots of people. At least the guy is trying. Whether he’s unaware that his art sucks or you’re unaware of it’s merit, at least he’s doing something. Of course gay media will talk about it as it should.
    Porn stars give up anonymity and risk derision from much of society. And deserve attention for our other ventures.
    Do you really think we trade the closed doors and negative labels for $1000 a scene?
    (We’re not that dumb.)

    Conner Habib is not only educated and highly intelligent, he’s an excellent lecturer. He uses polysyllabic terms because those are the tools on his verbal toolbox. He’s a teacher. Get over it.

    People are interested in accomplished porn stars because the assumption is that we’re not bright. That we’re castoffs.

    I’ll pretend to be dumb as a rock for an hour if warm your cockles…
    But it’ll cost you.
    :)

    Rocky LaBarre

  4. In reference to Conner Habib, I seriously question if he really is that smart. It’s so funny cause you will see him around the castro at a coffee shop with a book and it all looks so staged. Anybody who goes out of there way to make themselves look intellectual one must wonder what they are hiding.

  5. Stupid people ruin fantasies and can be taken advantage of. Smart people know when to shut up and how to get more out of a fool.

  6. Intelligence can be sexy the same way licking someone’s nipples can. But neither can be fully appreciated with a camera between the participants.

  7. Does this mean you will start writing about Dawson Riley again? BTW he and the oh so refined and articulate Mrs. Riley are no longer married. If those two kids couldn’t make it, what does that say about the rest of us!

  8. For me the definition of dumb is:

    A) Mouthing off about something you know very little about and coming off as an authority on the subject

    B) Showing your ignorance about a topic and not caring about how you could be percieved by others

    Putting some thought into what you say shows that you have (at the very least) some intellect. But saying something because you think you’re right and have little or no way to back that up (especially if you’re wrong) really is dumb……

  9. Oh, please. You want these mainstream websites to give porn stars the benefit of the doubt and yet you just assumed a shit load of things concerning other people?

    LOL. Hypocrisy.

  10. I think the only one who really pulls it out is Colby Keller. I like his “I See Penis” feature in his blog, I like the fact that it’s funny and relaxed, he’s not even trying to make that kind of posts smart.
    However, Conner Habib needs to relax on embellishing everything by turning it into a 4 syllable word, I do like his essay on domestic violance in gay relationships.
    Now, Francois Sagat’s art is just incomprehensible…Incubus is just plain stupid and don’t get me started with that Sylvia something song..

  11. publik edukation

    I fucking love YOUR points. I think YOU’RE on target.

    Please, none of this intellectual shit in porn!!! Good god, we don’t care about your minds! Just be the body–the embodiment of my fantasies. Don’t be a real person! You are killing my boner!

    Especially, Conner Habib, who annoys the piss out of me with lame articles. Like, I’m supposed to care that you fuck in truck stops? Or that you banged the two ‘straight’ guys; one of whom had a brother in your English class you thought was hot and wanted to fuck. Boy, I can’t get those minutes back from reading that crap. Please, stick to being a porn performer. You can write very well, but like most educated adults with a graduate degree in english… you have nothing insightful or smart to say. Just stop. Stop trying!

      1. He may be likable. However, his intellectual pretensions and circular musings are sad exercises in sophistry. This is also true with Colby Keller, who claims he is an artist but is not known for any solid artistic collections so far. They are very good performers in their craft (don’t call it a career, as it requires no formal training) and that’s why I enjoy watching them.

        1. its a turn off when someone tries VERY hard to make a certain impression. Like if the person accepts that persona, it suddenly must be true or factual.

      2. See, I always thought that Unzipped was for all that, but then I remembered that Unzipped evaporated two years ago.

        I remember a piece in Unzipped trying to make Mark Slade sound intelligent. Hal Rubinstein did an interview piece for OUT years ago trying to make Ken Ryker sound smart.

        I say damn the ghostwriters, give the idiots the crayons and let them write it for themselves!

        Besides, I like going to lunch with porn stars and feeling smug sometimes. Makes up for my being so damned fat and ugly.

  12. I think that they’re are lots of people that are under the allusion that people can’t use proper grammer. There wrong. Look at me. I were told that I couldn’t wrote well at all but now’s I’m an editor of a paper. Everybody’s got they’re faults but we all trying to imrpve.

  13. I will point out though that – without naming any names – the fact porn stars are supposed to be dumb means that the minute a porn star writes something with big words that sounds half-way coherent, they are celebrated as “smart”. Let’s just say it is not always the case.
    You can use four-syllable words and expand on deep philosophical issues and still be a moron.
    Inversely, you can have a limited level of academic knowledge and be smart.

    My problem with porn stars giving us their opinion is that they have a lot to lose. They are supposed to be a turn-on and the sharing of their opinions is at best worthless and at worst a turn-off. I think the same of “regular” celebrities btw. I could not care less about their opinions and the fact those are often stupid is only an aggravating factor.

    Being hot does not make what you say interesting or relevant.

    And that include their opinion on sex. Being a porn star does not automatically make one an expert on sex. There again, enough said.

    1. It’s true that one can be intelligent without academia. However, one does not acquire knowledge through osmosis. Sarah Palin could easily have a higher IQ than she appears. However, she seems to celebrate ignorance and she lacks of intellectual curiosity. I admire & listen to people from all walks of life who take the time to acquire knowledge.
      You lost me when you said “the sharing of their opinions is at best worthless and at worst a turn-off.” The sharing of opinions from anyone is never worthless. If that was indeed the case you as a commenter on a gay p[orn blog could be assessed the same way.

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