Even though I don’t report alot on the gay side of the biz Ido have a lot of readers from that side of the biz and several of them pointed me to an interview with Treasure Island Media owner Paul Morris done by VICE.
In the interview Morris attempts to defend his making of the movie “Viral Loads”
Here is a representative email
“I have to say, it’s sad that so much gay porn-especially mainstream-is going bareback. A few years ago I could ‘understand’ some of the guys doing it-life hands you lemons, you make bareback porn. But entire companies not only celebrating HIV but converting them on film-and then saying it’s a great club to belong to-send a fucked up message. In my generation (I’m 40) I know the horror that HIV and AIDS brought. People act like it’s diabetes now-you just take a pill. Someday those pills aren’t going to work and then the PREPpers and those taking it as therapy are screwed. For what?
Have a good one buddy.”
“I know you occasionally check in on whats up on the gay side of things-this is pretty disturbing.
I have to say this is the most arrogant, disgusting interview I’ve ever read. If there was a way to get this guy on attempted murder I would pay to watch that from the front row.PS-I’m a gay dude, HIV negative, and practice safe sex…so I’m not trying to be a right wing bigoted asshole here, just a human being.”
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If there was a way to get Paul Morris on attempted murder I would pay to watch that from the front row -Reader Mail http://t.co/KkXMILlTqR
that is crazy to celebrate contracting hiv
I read the linked Vice article. Paul Morris is either horribly misinformed (unlikely since he said many of his friends and lovers died of AIDS and talks about the PREP medication regimen claiming that HIV is not a worry anymore and mentions that many think of it more like Diabetes than a horror story) or the biggest asshole in porn (I suspect he is the latter). However Paul does say one thing that I hope comes true — that in 20 years HIV will be forgotten (I assume because he thinks a cure will be available then). I am straight and worry about HIV when I have sex, I can’t even imagine being gay and losing friends to HIV and in that situation as HIV has hit that community much harder than mine (my now mostly retired primary care doctor was by default my county’s designated HIV doc in the 80’s and 90’s, all HIV positive patients had to go to him for primary care as no other doc would touch them here other than a few of the ER docs at the local hospital, made for some interesting conversations over the years — for the record he is still HIV negative even after doing surgeries, giving injections and drawing blood for lab testing from these patients since the beginning of HIV in Michigan). It would be nice to be able to have sex without a condom and the lube and change every ten minutes routine.
This guy is sick and a menace to society. I understand freedom of speech, but this borders on murder. To me this type of pornography is right up there with kiddie porn and beastiality.
Crossover stars have started to die out a little bit over the past year I have noticed. Companies and studios are pretty much using the same rotation of 10-15 guys right now and none of them have cross over stuff. I hope this continues, because as soon as crossovers are allowed to work again, that is when the diseases are going to be brought back into the industry.
I live in SF, and after reading this vice article, a piece of me wants to set up this Paul Morris Faggot and just clean punch him one right in the nose and make sure it brakes and bleeds all over the floor.
Maybe he can check his “viral loads” after he loses all that blood.
I hope they keep the crossovers out. but then again
that’s only hopeful thinking. Too many girls right now
on the straightside of the Adult Industry don’t want to work
with guys in LA anymore.
I just read a article in the LA weekly this week about most of LA south central and Long Beach, the guys are all going gay and have HIV to spread around. Its called being on the “down low” and they have girlfriend and wives at home, but have gay tendacies. That and this article is crazy.
There’s a bigger issue here, and that’s the guys that crossover WITHIN gay porn and do bareback and condom scenes. You’ve got the bareback guys like Shay Michaels working without condoms, then thowing one on and doing a condom scene-and escorting on top of it. My concern is we’re going to get a superstrain of god knows what, on top of a gay/straight crossover infection. I’m fine with ‘freedom of speech’ but this crosses a line.
@rkatkt
Gay porn is a lot different than straight porn. Gay guys are more inclined to have 5 people fuck one guy bareback and just call it “Wednesday”.
If a gay guy is willing to do this on set over the weekend what is he doing on Wednesday?
Gay men exist. It isn’t like they don’t have sex with those in the adult industry any more than straight people do. What happens with TIM occurs off screen at times. Worrying about people screwing TIM performers is a moot point because they could be screwing people that screw TIM people off screen.
Superstrain? They’re there. And you can bet that performers are having sex with those guys off screen.
Companies boycott TIM. That is good and it keeps things safe. The people at TIM are not safe. That is why they are working there.
People with HIV don’t stop having sex. TIM is showing that in their movies.
As far as I am concerned any guy fucking both guys and gals and actually getting off on it is bi-sexual, not just gay tendencies. For the record this is how a monogamous non IDU woman that has never had a blood transfusion in her life gets HIV not knowing her husband takes ten dicks up his keister every night at Hollywood and Vine as a male prostitute. That doesn’t even consider he may be taking multiple HIV+ TIM dicks up the ass which is a whole other concern IMO.
I cannot speak from experience but the gay men I have known actually don’t present as any more promiscuous than my straight friends. I can’t claim to be an expert on gay sexual habits (being straight myself living in an area with a relative few gays living in it) but I am not one that believes the stereotype that gay men in general fuck three guys a night seven nights a week 365 days a year (yes, some do although I believe that is a small minority of gays — but I have known women that fuck three guys a night too and we all know they are a small minority of women).