Why does straight porn feature more risky sex than gay porn?
January 21, 2008
I was just wondering, why is it that straight porn takes more risks then gay porn? For example, straight porn has a lot of condomless sex (both vaginal and anal), lots of oral cumshots (with swallowing sometimes), and true gangbanging (meaning ONE person being fucked by LOTS of guys). But you rarely see these aspects in gay porn. I'm not complaining but I was wondering.
Straight sex doesn't play nearly as safe as gay sex because the straight community wasn't decimated by AIDS in the 1980's. During that time period the gay porn industry was hit just as hard (if not harder) than the gay community at large. Although the gay porn community was extremely slow in adapting to safe sex, when it did so it embraced it in almost a moralistic way.
Straight sex has had no such experience and has elected to deal with issues of safe sex different. Many straight companies require a HIV test no more than two weeks before the movie is scheduled to be shot. Of course, many more companies don't even bother with that. I know of one video series (the "Sloppy Seconds" series) in which one woman will be fucked by five or six guys, all of whom will cum inside her. Attempting to do this in mainstream gay porn will probably result in the director and producer being drawn and quartered. Or at least historically so. Companies like Treasure Island Media are pushing the envelope and making videos like this today.
In recent years the rise of barebacking in amateur porn has paralleled the rise of barebacking in the gay community at large, but so far that has had almost no effect on professional gay porn. Whether this trend will die out or if professional porn will lift their condom restrictions remains to be seen. The ultimate decision, I suspect, will be more in the hands of distribution companies rather than the producers. Even the world's best condomless porn won't sell if it can't get into stores. (Update: In the five years since I wrote this column barebacking in gay porn has exponentially grown. For better or for worse, I expect it to continue growing in the future.)
Straight sex has had no such experience and has elected to deal with issues of safe sex different. Many straight companies require a HIV test no more than two weeks before the movie is scheduled to be shot. Of course, many more companies don't even bother with that. I know of one video series (the "Sloppy Seconds" series) in which one woman will be fucked by five or six guys, all of whom will cum inside her. Attempting to do this in mainstream gay porn will probably result in the director and producer being drawn and quartered. Or at least historically so. Companies like Treasure Island Media are pushing the envelope and making videos like this today.
In recent years the rise of barebacking in amateur porn has paralleled the rise of barebacking in the gay community at large, but so far that has had almost no effect on professional gay porn. Whether this trend will die out or if professional porn will lift their condom restrictions remains to be seen. The ultimate decision, I suspect, will be more in the hands of distribution companies rather than the producers. Even the world's best condomless porn won't sell if it can't get into stores. (Update: In the five years since I wrote this column barebacking in gay porn has exponentially grown. For better or for worse, I expect it to continue growing in the future.)
