BT unless the performer is an out of the closet gay/bisexual man performing in straight porn, I don’t think it would be much of an issue. Right now I don’t know any male talent in straight porn who is on the record as being gay in their personal lives. Honestly if they were, I highly doubt they would get much of any work. We know they are out there, we know there is a lot of male talent that escorts on the side with other men but there isn’t a current performer who has worked exclusively in the straight side of the industry who has come out as gay.
The Divine Bitches Kink website uses almost exclusively gay male talent. Robert Axel has done bareback, as has Casey More Mike De Marko escorts on rentboy as does Andrew Blue who just signed with Shy Love’s agency, so does Christian Wilde, Adam Russo, Josh West and Jason Miller. Some have done condom scenes on the site but most have gone unprotected.
]]>An actress clearly doesn’t have to perform in any scene she doesn’t want to perform in; do anything she doesn’t want to do; or do it with someone she doesn’t want to do it with. In other words, she has a right to walk away from a job. If I’m a producer of All Anal Interracial MILFS, and Julia Ann says, I’d rather not appear in anal interracial scene, hire another actress, it’s her right to turn down the job. If she’s offered the scene and it includes Mr. Marcus, she has the right to say, you know, I’d rather not work with him, hire another actress to work with him. She is turning down the work opportunity.
But, if an actress is hired, and the director says, I have hired James Deen to be your partner, and she says, I won’t work with him because I am a skinhead and he is Jewish. I won’t work with a Jewish performer. You need to fire him and hire another performer who isn’t Jewish, it would be discriminatory for the producer or director to fire James Deen for that reason.
Similarly, if I’m a professional point guard and a basketball team’s leading scorer, I could not present management with a no list that says you can’t hire Jason Collins because I will not accept rebounds from a gay center. He’s gay. You can’t hire him. Or, in the alternative, if Collins is hired next season, his teammates cannot present management with a no list demanding that he be traded because they don’t want to share a locker room shower with a gay guy.
I think the same would hold true in the case of porn. Actresses would clearly have the right to turn down work based on all kinds of criteria. But I don’t believe that it would be legal for a production company to refuse to hire an individual based solely on their race, creed or sexual orientation.
Porn operates like this because its porn.
]]>Kink’s fem dom site Divine Bitches uses a lot of gay talent and often times don’t use condoms for Divine Bitches shoots. A lot of these guys are escorts or do gay bareback.
Robert Axel
http://thesword.com/the-death-of-the-gay-porn-star.html
Casey More
Christian Wilde
http://www.rentboy.com/Listing.aspx?lid=377327&scid=94672448&sp=1&pos=12&locid=1400&iid=183088
Tommy Defendi
http://www.rentboy.com/Listing.aspx?lid=204762&scid=94672509&sp=2&pos=31&locid=1378&iid=85864
Mike De Marko
http://menofporn.typepad.com/menofporn/2013/01/the-straight-for-pay-in-mike-de-marko.html
DJ
http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=djmann_bb/gender=m/d.j..htm
This one shoots for kink and is now represented by ATMLA
http://www.atmla.com/atmla2/tour/performers/35801-pornstar-joey-driver/details.php
This one was Treasure Island Media’s biggest star and bragged on another forum about having been in a long term relationship with a HIV+ guy. Treasure Island Media was fined by OSHA and is a notorious bareback company. Shot with Devil’s Films without a condom.
All of these links are NSFW but the point is that Kink regularly uses gay talent that works with untested talent in the gay side of the industry. Do you really think a female performer would knowingly have sex with a guy that is in a relationship with someone who is HIV+?
Mike, Falcon studios also based in San Francisco is being sued by a former employee who claims he had to inject male talent with TriMix.
This isn’t good people.
]]>the more he talks the more arrogant he gets
For someone who’s claiming he wants to make amends, Mr. Marcus should start off by telling the truth. But he keeps making excuses and lame comments.
Mr. Marcus interviewed with a website http://www.balleralert.com and adds this to the potpourri of nonsense he’s been spouting:
“Listen that picture [with Lylith Lavey] is like whatever because in reality if you’re standing there looking at it,trust me the girl went and did, but it looked like it was f*****g dry skin. I put on that damn lotion thought it was gonna make it feel better or look better. I thought it was because of f***ing vitamins I shoulda been taken. I’ve been stressing about a lot of different things. Stress can do s**t to your body do things to the way you think do things.”
On Doing 30 Days Of Jail Time & Community Service
“It was time served simple as that, jail is jail. We’re working it out not so much (community) labor, but community effective. It’s unfortunate, I’d rather it not have happened. I’m sorry for the way it looks, you gotta understand the media twists the hell outta this sh**, especially the Huffington Post. It’s also very political, it’s just unfortunate. I caught something curable, a bacteria that’s curable and the only thing I messed up with, is the test because they just didn’t know any better, the clinic I was at. People just wanna give me a hard time, cuz they gotta give somebody a hard time. No one’s sympathetic or gives a f*** about p0rn stars.”
On Whether Or Not He Knows Who Gave Him Syphilis
“I have this fantasy that I’m going to get an email saying, “I gave this to you, I’m the one who did it sorry about that.” Girls come and go, it sucks, it changed the way I look at things I pulled back big time from the biz. I see a lot of s**t in people, especially sexually.”
On How His Family Is Dealing With The Fiasco
“My wife is good, we been through a lot of s**t. It ain’t easy for anybody, especially if you’re on the front page of the news & everybody labels you this way, it kinda sucks. My sister recently died in 2010 and I take care of my sister’s kids along with my mom. It’s on me. It’s on me and my mom, this sh** don’t help, this sh** has NOT helped.”
On Whether Or Not He’s Been Treated Differently By Colleagues & Whether He Has New Films On The Way
“Within the business, hell yeah. If you didn’t like me then, you sure as hell don’t like me now. If you liked me in the beginning, your friendship is probably stronger. I haven’t looked or even asked about (scenes), I don’t know I just feel like I seen so much s**t happened, I’m skeptical of motherf*****s. I don’t know who’s gonna f** with me. I haven’t done a scene since, I’ve pulled back and haven’t even thought twice about it. Not planning on retiring, there’s some things that I’m working on business wise. I love this industry.
I’m always socializing, I meet a lot of people. People come up to me and in the back of my head, if they read this news article, then they must think less of me. What I have had though is a lot more people are friendlier and I’m getting more love. I think people realize I’ve been through a lot and they’re giving me some kind of respect, some kind of peace.”
On His Goals And What He Wants People To Take Away From This
“Look, my goal is to make sure kids think twice. I’ll probably go talk to college kids about this. It all depends on how they see you in the light, they see me as a convict because of what they saw in the news. If I can change people’s minds now, it’ll make it easier to get to that level. I’ve got a lot of work to do especially as a black man.
Look, just go see a doctor make an appointment, do follow ups and get tested. Get more than one opinion and I did all that. Nobody said nothing about syphilis until I went to the doctor and it was as simple as that and take a shot in the ass. He (doctor) eased all my fears. Unfortunately, you had people who didn’t know and it snowballed. It shouldn’t have, but it did.”
This storm isn’t over for Mr. Marcus, he has a LONG way to go and a lot of rebuilding and gaining trust from people in the industry and people in general. Some are just closed-minded to the fact of “what he did” that they just don’t want to hear ANY excuses on him contracting syphilis and filming with women. Of course, we’re not going to give a blind eye to the fact that he had a rash on his penis and not go to the doctor first and instead go online for a diagnosis. We ALL have in one point in our lives gone to the “innanets” to find out what we have, because we “SWEAR” we can self-diagnose ourselves and just follow Dr. WebMd’s directions.
I’m also sure a lot of you are going to mention the fact that he’s been in the industry for 15+ years and the only STD’s he knows about are chlamydia and gonorrhea. He should know better because hell, YOU, know about every STD out there. I know it’s hard to say don’t judge him, because I did. Mr. Marcus wished he handled this situation better, he didn’t BUT he’s trying to make up his mistakes. Let him, don’t tear him down. He KNOWS he f****d up, we don’t need to bash him in the head.
]]>What is it? Race, religion, age, and on what else is a future employer NOT allowed to base their hiring decision? I, for one, would love it if it also included PAST EMPLOYMENT!!! But it doesn’t! So if a former porn performer can’t get a job at Mc Donald’s because they’d ‘create a disturbance’, or can’t get a job teaching or nursing or God forbid anything to do with children, then keeping a crossover performer from doing straight porn should be a no-brainer!
That being said, I don’t understand how the current crop of performers can justify possibly infecting their fellow sex workers with what they may have caught after just one unprotected sexual encounter! With all of the STD’s that have NO SYMPTOMS, how can they be 100% positive they won’t be giving their next partner an extra gift on the set? THEY ARE NOT DOCTORS!!!! Crazy thought, right? So when a performer WANTS to work without condoms, aren’t they basically saying that they don’t give a rat’s ass about the person performing with them? Aren’t they somehow insisting that they are clean and to think otherwise is an insult to them? Hell, their test is only twenty days old and they’ve only had unprotected sex with forty people since then, who were all tested as well (except for the ones who paid more money) so HOW DARE SOMEONE QUESTION THEIR CLEANLINESS!!!
In this article from Fattorisi(porn troll lawyer) this infected performer asks if the agent who booked him nitified the partner. The agent knew, violation on 1700.33. But the real question again is, Why didnt the infected performer notify his scene partner? This guy should be commended for coming forward yes, but it is going to cost him, again, as it should, and HIS AGENT.
Howard from Fabscout, you gonna be gettin a visit, soooooon
]]>The industry likes to use CDC numbers to justify not using condoms, but does not like to use the fact that the CDC says the risk is real and that people at risk who engage in sexual activity should wear a condom.
]]>Jilted he worked with Kink’s Divine Bitches site which is male female interaction as well as their trans porn site called TS seduction. He did not use condoms in either scene. BT I think a model’s choice who to have sex with would trump any kind of gay discrimination claim in a court of law.
Mike I’m surprised it took you so long to post this. Brenn Wyson posted something about it on Michael Fattorosi’s blog months ago.
You better screen save it before he takes it down. Here is the link and text.
Brennwyson says:
November 10, 2012 at 3:55 pm
I’ve worked in the porn industry since 2009 with Fabscout. I felt the porn Industry was safe, working with big companies. I have yet learned on a lot of gay porn stars are getting Hep B,C and Aids. My AIM test about 1 year ago, I was tested for Hep C. Howard tells me you probably had it for years or tell me all these other ways I could have been. I was tested for boxing and tested by the Government health and was negative in 2010 and 2011. I don’t share needles. I don’t shoot up or have a lot of sex partners out side of the porn industry. When I found out it destroyed me. Why? Because I could never live my dream in boxing. I was an owner of a gym called Broward Boxing in Florida. Youtube Broward boxing and you will see.
Loosing my dream led me into a deep depression. Ive been boxing my hole life. To become a Pro Boxer. I have fought the best, sparred against the best and beat the best. The fighting world is my family. Loosing my dream, I feel in my own addition to drugs. Only to realized I am not a victim. Now I’m in AA NA
All that said. I call a porn star that I was with after my last shoot for kink.com as the creepy janitor. I asked him if Howard from Fabscout, who is his agent. Told him about me. That I have Hep C. He said, he had no idea. I said to him. Dont you think he should have told you. Howard told me he would have to tell everyone in the industry. So you can make a judgment call.
Howard had reassured me that you can get it in sex its blood to blood. I have found you can get it from rimming. Because blood from your anal. I have learned of so many ways. The shots they give you to make your dick hard. What if they mixed up a needle. Do you know? Are you sure? They are not in the medical field. Your putting your life in there hands.
I did. I put myself there. I made the choices to become a porn star.
Dont let directors ask you to do something you will regret. Like sucking them off after they cum. The director would come up to you and say. Will you suck his dick after he shoots. Tell them, NO!
I have a new fight. I’m fighting for you porn stars with very powerful men. If you have problems lets us know. Will keep it private. [email protected]
I am in the process of publishing my book. Profits from the book is going to help porn stars, sex crimes and sex abuse. I have a purpose and a new fight. My real name is Michael Fox. My facebook is [email protected], Brenn Wyson and Michael Fox’s September Sky.
Direct link
http://adultbizlaw.com/the-occupational-dangers-of-being-a-pornstar/
]]>Micro tears in the anus and vagina cause small amounts of blood. Hep C passes through those tears just like HIV does. The harder someone’s ass and vagina gets screwed, the better the chance of internal rips. Ask producers how many times they have had to stop anal scenes due to rectal bleeding. I know I’ve personally stopped countless amounts and I don’t work anywhere near as much as a busy LA producer, nor am I shoving 2 and 3 penises in there and stretching it to capacity. Anyone who has done a lot of anal or extreme vaginal scenes is at high risk for this.
]]>Here’s the thing: prohibiting someone from a job based solely on their sexual orientation is a clear violation of the law. If a gay, bi-sexual or transgender man looks right for the part, has a clean bill of health and can perform whatever is required with an opposite sex partner, it is illegal not to hire him solely on the basis of his sexual orientation or off-set activities and proclivities.
So …… while its still to be determined whether the requirement to wear a condom is a public health issue, a workplace safety issue or a First Amendment issue, there’s no question but that refusing to hire cross-over talent because they have homosexual relations off set is a violation of employment law.
And, if the industry wants to argue that it’s not a violation of employment law because its a worker safety and public health issue, then the counter is: then mandate the use of condoms.
The industry cannot have it both ways.
The argument that condoms break, which I see made repeatedly, is just silly. That’s like saying the state shouldn’t mandate the use of seat belts because they occasionally malfunction or that an iron worker should wear a hard hat because it may fall off.
The reported break rate is 4 in 1,000. The most significant factor in condom failure is improper storage – guys leaving them in their wallets.
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