The Central Scrutinizer said:
Aren't there enough gay guys available to do gay porn? Why do they need to recruit "straight" actors?? Look, if you put another guys...ummm..."thing" in your mouth, you're gay. No matter how much you say you aren't.
Oh sure, there are plenty of gay porn actors. And many of them do straight porn as well.
But we can't discriminate, right? (implied smiley)
Look, nobody in the porn industry cares one way or another. Unless you happen to be Ron Jeremy, or Seymour Butts, in which case you produce your own porn now anyway.
You show up at the producer's house, they take a couple photos, and decide what market you fit. Young Stud, boyish waif, older man, bear, etc....
Then they offer you about $1200 bucks for a five hour shoot and the only thing that separates wether it might be gay or straight is the schedule. If you want the money, and you have the time you do it.
The simple fact is you probably don't get very far doing just straight porn because why would they call you up knowing you're only eligible to shoot half the scenes they're doing that day, when they could easily call the next guy on the list, have him work all day and only worry about one paycheck and one set of papers.
Done and done.
Seriously, I think you guys are hung up on the gay thing because it's gay MEN. Are you telling me that all those women you see in lesbian porn are by default, lesbians?
Pleeeeaaaase.
Search around on the internet for a while for lesbian porn clips. Watch about 20 of those.
Then go back to your regular straight porn surfing. You'll see all the same girls.
I don't search for gay porn, but I'm assuming this is true on that end as well.
In addition when I worked at the porn store, I used to have to repair broken tapes that came in. (Just one of the many reasons I don't work there anymore.) The dudes in the gay porn were exactly the same dudes in the straight porn.
The one thing I will say that makes me think maybe this particular guy is full of it, now that I've been thinking about it...
Well, it's one thing to decide you're gonna do porn for a living. And then accept all the crap that comes with that. Like doing gay stuff even if you're straight, etc...
But if this was some guy's one shot deal, I mean if he did it for a lark, or a little cash, well, that's odd.
I mean I just can't see someone who doesn't do porn normally, and isn't gay normally saying..."Hey, $500 bucks! Sweet, I'll suck some **** on tape, Sure!"