The Year in Gay Porn: 2004

1. Best Cum Shot: Lust In Translation, El Dorado Entertaintment
I had heard rumors about the cum shot in Alex Lechero's (get it?) solo scene from the editors of Fleshbot months ago. Now that I've finally seen it, well, um, yeah. Sort of insane. Like imagine turning on a water fountain for like five seconds and only milk (or should I say leche?) came out? Although the director credited is David del Dorado, the postmodern use of the mirror in the scene reminds me of a certain other director's work, but I won't pry. Even more glorious screenshots over at Fleshbot.

2. Best Box Cover: Drill Bill Volume 1, All Worlds Video
Whereas the movie itself is less-than-perfect (directed by Dirk Yates, it features many elements of his trademark style -- or lack thereof,) but it deserves some accolades for executing not just a satirical name, but a fully articulated box cover, too (the similarities to "Kill Bill" end there). Covermodel Bill Ray looks and acts like he just got back from a "Real World/Road Rules Challenge" (hot!).

3. Best Press Kit: Horse: Fallen Angel 5, TitanMedia It contained a vat of lube, condoms, an energy drink, a leather-scented candle (that really smells like leather!), and a "feedbag" filled with candy, (to give us reviewers enough energy to watch the 8-plus hours of content on the five-disc set.) Nothing like watching the god-like, zero-muscle-fat men of Titan to make you scarf down a bunch of carbs.

4. Best raunchy twink video: Juvie Boys, Lucas International If Mike can be ebullient about twink porn, I'm feeling the need to share about Juvie Boys, from Michael Lucas' new international line, which features some Czech boys getting really raunchy. I would watch more twink videos if they had them pissing on each other and ravaging themselves with dildos.

5. Best Nutsack Ever: Barret Long
"Pendulous", "low hangers", "worthy of a scrotum tuck", call them what you want, but -- aside from being attached to one of the most terrific cocks working today -- they're remarkably remarkable.

6. Best Comeback: Dean Phoenix (duh!)
He piqued everyone's attention by coming out of a four-year "retirement" to star in Buckelroos., and awed us all by finally bottoming for Marcus Iron. While his touching performance was worth the wait, a question remains: Was it a one-time-event, or is he back for good? Only time will tell, I guess.

7. Strangest Press Release: Eight Inches (Parts 1 and 2), MarcoStudio
It has the typical porn press release stuff -- scene breakdown, credits, DVD extras, and then, on the last page, a table that has lists out each sex scene, each actor, and then ... each actor's real name. Uh, OK.

8. Best Use of a Powertool: Toolbox Trilogy: Drilled, Raging Stallion
A drill, with a pretty fucking big butt plug attached to the bit, is stuffed into Simon Cox's ass -- and turned on full speed ahead. Cox's ass lips start flappin' in the wind like a bulldog sicking his face out of a car window, as the massive latex slab whirls faster than Rudy Galindo doing a double-axle on crack. Even I had to scoop my undroppable jaw up off the ground.

-- Jack

Jewish gay porn stars?

Happy Christmas, readers! I racked my brain for a Christmas-themed entry that goes beyond linking to lame Christmas pornos (Merry XXX-mas
by Hollywood Sales, Jeff Stryker's cringe-inducing Santa's Cumming, Santa's Excellent Adventure etc.) but came up short.

And then it occurred to me: Why should I care? I'm Jewish. And then it occurred to me: Are there even any jewish gay porn stars? Ron Jeremy is Jewish, but he's neither gay nor role-model worthy. Donnie Russo has a New York Jew-style accent, but he could just as well be Italian.

So, I'm going to turn this over to the readers, because I'm stumped (and somewhat depressed over all this). Jewish Gay Porn Stars ... do they exist? Discuss. Anyone anyone? If any porn stars out there would like to "come out" as Jewish, please feel free.

-- Jack

Oh, wait -- is Michael Lucas Jewish?

The Gift of Gay Porn

Will your family buy you gay porn? No. Your lover? Doubtful? Us. Um, yeah. But the deadline is Wednesday at midnight.

Three months of all-you-can-watch gay porn courtesy of NakedSword.com. All you have to do is write a short essay on your favorite members of Naked Sword's Dream Team. Runners-up get the first three episodes of Wet Palms, in case we haven't already bullied you into watching it.

In case you haven't already, vote in the NakedSword poll, or take a look a the guys in the gallery.

(Oh, and btw, the entries we've gotten are rad (and sometimes a little crazy) but, um, good show fellas!)

Gay Twink Porn from Hot House

Hot House Entertainment has a reputation to uphold. The studio's unrivalled combination of high production values and hot, tough, nasty men engaging in extreme fetish and hardcore ass-play helped make Hot House the decade's raunchy darling.

Then, the other day, director Steven Scarborough (The Road to Hopeful, Skuff) handed me a couple of films Hot House recently acquired from Britain's Eurocreme production company. Twink porn at the venerable Hot House? Sweet and smooth boytoys from the master of edge fetish? I was confused. Until I watched the movie...

The Eurocreme boys are handsome and hung. I mean, HUNG. And not only do they love to fuck, they're funny and fun. I watched Skaterboy dumbfounded by the fresh faced skatemates who spend their time skating, fucking and getting high (they take a trip to Amsterdam to compete in a skate competition) I watched in awe as two 10-inch 20-year-olds double-penetrated the dumbfounded Dutch boy, writhing in ecstasy. Really fantastic stuff.

Scarborough has made a strategic and smart acquisition. Max Lincoln, the director of Dreamboy, Dreamboy USA, Skaterboy and the highly popular Spyboy series ("Bonk. James Bonk."), has the eye of George DuRoy (Lukas' Story, Pleasure Express) and the sense of humor of Rick Tugger (There Goes the Neighborhood, White Trash). The Eurocreme line -- to be distributed through HH Direct -- has some of the best titles I've seen in a long time.

Viva la twink!

-- Mike

Manplay: Amateur Gay Porn Redefined

Amateur can be super hot, but it's easy to be scared away by the scores of bad, bad, BAD stuff out there. Every so often, I will find a diamond in the rough (Dirk Yates, Big Dik Factory), but for the most part, amateur is really an excuse for some pervy old man to film his young buck neighbor that he wants to get with.

Universally, amateur gay porn is an excuse for bad sets (an embarrassingly upholstered sofa), bad lighting (an Ikea torchiere that casts the models with a greenish pallor), and editing and camera style that echos Andy Warhol's Empire. So you've got to give it to TitanStudios for redefining what "amateur" gay porn is with their ManPlay line, which they've been doing for about two years now.

They all pretty much follow the same format: throw a bunch of really horny guys in a room (except for ManPlay 009, which was outdoors) and start rolling the cameras. Unlike most other porn, there's no distinct "scenes" -- guys fuck, guys cum, guys go, new guys enter, and so on. They have multiple cameras (often, the cameramen and unit photographers are in the shot ... why not?), it's edited together well, and the men are usually medium-to-high cute.

I surmise that they also act as the unofficial audition process for Titan. Often someone crops up in a ManPlay, and then later stars in one of their larger productions. Fyerfli went on to do "Back to Barstow," Jake Corwin went on to do Carny, Ben Damon went on to win an academy award for Good Will Hunting, a fresh-faced faux-hawked "Owen" would go on to become the Owen Hawk we know and love, horse-hung Sean Paris went on to star in Holler and R.E.M., Michael Fallon would go on (or go back?) to become lanky hammer-top Andy Hunter. Mark goes on to become Marc Sterling and star in "Men's Room", and "Back to Barstow".

For the most part, the actors are unknown, and often doing one fulfills their desire to be a porn star and it's the only movie they ever do. There's some exceptions: Titan fave Billy Wild graces ManPlay 01 with his presence, John Truitt and compact pig Sky Donovan makes noteworthy appearance in ManPlay 02, Carlo Cox and Hans Ebson show up in ManPlay 10.

Anyway, you should check them out for sure. ManPlay 001-014 are currently available to rent from GPB Theater or NakedSword.com's ETicket

-- Jack

Gay Porn for Women?

Dear Gay Porn Blog,
I didn't know where else to ask, but I have to know. Is it normal for women to "enjoy" gay porn too?
-- Jane

Normally I'd give a flip answer in a post, but I've known personally and had so many women and straight couples confessing to loving gay porn, that I'd feel remiss not to bring you all together.

As for gay porn -- what's not to like? Straight men go crazy watching two women get it on -- why wouldn't a woman want to see two men sweaty and erect? Scholar-activists like Annie Sprinkle and Susie Bright have praised the joy of porn (gay and straight) for women. My straight friend Molly used to steal my Dirk Yates military solo videos. My friends Nadia and Elisa would always put on Falcon videos everytime I leave the room. Not only is it normal, it's not even that unusual ...

And face it: gay porn is better. The gay porn industry also pays its male stars more money than the straight porn industry and thus attracts a higher grade of man -- in short, they're cuter. And better hung. In addition to the inevitable gay-for-pay crossover (straight stars in gay porn), acclaimed gay porn director Chi Chi LaRue is working on a collection of straight porn stars doing solos for a gay audience.

Jack says that in Germany, women get together for 'gay porn nacht' where they drink fine Rhine wine, munch Bratwurst and drool over the hunky sex gods caressing and buggering each other. I have no proof of this, but the camerawoman on Wet Palms who does the same thing (minus maybe the Rhine wine) in San Francisco.

-- Mike