Fratmen’s bewildering antics of pulling gay sex scenes starring The Real World’s Dustin Zito and threatening bloggers with copyright claims just keep getting bewilderinger! How bewildering? Fratmen is now demanding that bloggers pull images of Dustin Zito/Spencer’s gay sex because he may have been underage when the content was produced.
Here’s an e-mail Fratmen sent to Reality Blurred, which had linked to images of Zito/Spencer’s gay sex. This is either 100% stupid or 100% crazy. Or 200% stupid-crazy.
As a journalist and TV critic, I’m confident you are aware of the perils of posting links to pages containing sexually explicit content that fail to maintain the labeling required by Title 18 U.S.C. § 2257. And furthermore, if that link were truly ‘newsworthy’, I would have thought you would have gotten your story straight before you posted it, if only to avoid the journalistic embarrassment of having to amend it. Maybe the purported video never was on the site; maybe the primary producer had been forced to remove the video because one of the performers was under 18 years old on the date of production… Maybe a pack of wild dogs broke into the Fratmen data center and destroyed the content with their magnetic teeth.”
While the “maybes” are probably intended to be just that–hypothetical maybes–casting any aspersion on yourself(!) for producing underage porn is beyond comprehension. The “links to pages containing sexually explicit content” Fratmen is referring to feature(d) screencaps of Zito/Spencer’s gay sex, which were all taken from the gay sex movies that Spencer made on Fratmen.tv and Fratpad.com, and 2257 documents (which provide proof of a performer’s age) cover not just a movie, but any images or screencaps taken from that movie. The 2257 notice on Fratmen’s site is here, but this isn’t about 2257 or underage performers. If it were, why is Spencer’s solo jerk off (not to mention the solo jerk offs from Spencer’s gay sex scene partners Chase, Travis, and David) still up on the site? Why would all the image pulling and movie removing occur at the same time as The Real World debut? Furthermore, going after a popular mainstream site like Reality Blurred for merely linking to images as opposed to the random site that was actually hosting the images proves to me that Fratmen is more interested in obfuscating the story of Zito/Spencer’s gay sex, not trying to cover up underage porn.
I speculated that MTV wanted to distance Zito from his gay porn past. It’s also plausible that Fratmen doesn’t want to be regarded as a “gay” site, even though they hire men to have anal sex with each other on camera. Or, maybe Fratmen’s just looking out for what it thinks are Zito’s best interests, now that he’s in the public eye. But, based on the above e-mail, I think Fratmen is just good old-fashioned crazy. Not wanting the public to know that you produce hardcore gay porn because you’re homophobic or embarrassed would be one thing, but suggesting that you might have produced underage gay porn as a means to control your company’s image or to protect Dustin Zito’s new mainstream career? In. Sane.
Also, Fratmen isn’t very good at thoroughly scrubbing their own site of Zito/Spencer’s gay sex movies. While the Spencer and Travis blowjob scene is rumored to have been deleted from their site (I’ve contacted Fratmen for clarification on this and other points) along with blog posts promoting it, the Spencer and David scene is still up. In it, the two blow each other in the shower before jerking each other off on a bed. It’s a great scene!
The clip is titled “AW5” (Alumni Weekend 5), and maybe because it doesn’t have Spencer’s name in the title, they missed it? Join Fratmen to download it before it gets pulled.
To Mike @ 29 April 2011, 9:08 am:
If the man were bisexual, that man could claim to be straight and be right if he saw himself as straight and functioned and presented himself as straight to others. Further, that straight man could claim to be straight if he explored same sex relations with a man (this is common, usually, for men in their teen years, but there is nothing that unusual about a 20 something being curious) then returned to intimacy with women. Me thinks your premise on the matter of sexual attraction is lacking. Your scenario above is not necessarily the norm.
How a man can claim to be st8 after having sex with another man is absurd. There is no way at all a straight man could have sex with another man unless being on some serious drugs, or without throwing up 4-6 times during the scene. It would be so nauseating for the straight man, and it wouldn’t happen. So gay pornstars that claim to be “straight” are either lying or don’t understand what straight is, they are bi. Becuase a true straight man could never go through with such a thing. That’s the bottom line cause a straight man said so
to michael his bottom scene was pay per view only so theres not alot fo copies floating around- honestly this whole story is boring to me.
What scenes did Spencer bottom in, the one with David?
The people who run this company truly are too stupid to live. If you run a porn company, the LAST word you ever want to utter is “Underage”. However, the MIT graduates at Fratpad uttered the word, and this being the internet, this WILL find its way to the FBI, and the Feds will descend on the company, and the legal fees alone will probably bankrupt these morons. Furthermore, they did no favors to the camera crews and models who appeared in scenes with this twit if in fact he LIED about his age to shoot these scenes. Not only could the company basically be shut down for trafficking in child pornography, but anyone who was in the same room with him when he was naked could, in theory, be charged with lewd behavior with a minor….which means they will have to register as a sex offender if they were found guilty. Great job Fratpad—you guys so rock!
It appears that a lot of the day-to-day decisions are made by the guy refered to as Fratman Leo. Leo was a model for the site at one time, but has now been elevated to Den Mother status. While Leo may have some supervisory duties, when it comes to true management, he’s really immature and inexperienced. I mean do they really want to introduce the whole “he may have been underaged” game? The Feds will be there in a hot minute examining every shred of paper and every hard drive from here to kingdom come. I used to think that the owner was pretty shrewed, but maybe he’s lounging in his caftan at his Palm Springs estate and can’t be bothered. Just think, a couple of thousand members x $25.00/mo aint a bad gig. Can one former Fratpad model be worth all of this drama and aggravation?