[Billy Twee] Treasure Island Media Pushes the Button with 'Viral Loads'

[Feeder]

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Most of the comments from the public posted on the Treasure Island Media website have been typically lame, with a lot of dancing around the issue: detectable HIV deposits banked into willing asses. Certainly, this is a fact of bareback sex, and by extension, bareback porn. But the guys at Treasure Island Media are engaging in some subtle (some might say 'not so subtle') marketing here, demonstrating how to engage the pozcum fetish which is a repugnant issue for the mainstream porn industry. Michael Lucas is now producing bareback porn...BUT...and we all know this...his models are all HIV-negative. Ditto, the slew of crap from Brazil and Central Europe...fresh twinks free of the nasty bug are all tested, and paired off in antiseptic, usually tedious, uncharged bareback action.

I don't know about you gentle readers, but as far as I'm concerned, poz guys are so much sexier because we are uninhibited and have gone for broke with what remains of our sexual lives. A porn star of undisclosed HIV status becomes so much more attractive once his positivity is revealed. It helps the viewing public create his image, part of an imaginative and intellectual process that is a vital part of porn. For example, I never really appreciated TIM starlet Jay Ross until I created my own image of his character: rich college frat boi who spends his allowance on expensive New York hotel suites where he can get gangfucked and charged by big latino cock. But it's still up to the pornographer to give us something to play with. Treasure Island Media is doing this with the new video, 'Viral Loads,' where a preview scene with poz megastar Blue Bailey (porn types reach 'mega' status when they star in their own gangbangs) and Steven Richards, of whom I would know little if it were not for TIM's subtle marketing.

We all know that all bareback porn bottoms are poz, with only a few exceptions. You can't be worried about HIV if you're going to bottom in bareback porn. But we often don't know that much about the tops; we have to search the internet for more information about HIV status, if it's ever disclosed at all. Until now, however; through this subtle exercise, TIM has taken the unspoken to the next step. A viral load in bareback porn is a matter that pertains to the top. We bottoms love those viral loads, and in the new video 'Viral Loads' we can assume that all the tops have a viral load to satisfy the hungry demands of those toxic bottoms. So I'm assuming that Steven Richards is poz, and all the other tops are poz, as well. I think we're supposed to assume such. So I'm anxious to see who else tops in 'Viral Loads.' I can almost guess who the bottoms are, but I'm really interested to see the roster of tops with their viral loads. One thing about Treasure Island Media: they don't mislead their viewers, e.g., we all know Brad McGuire is negative. If Brad shows up in this one, then it will show how wrong I can be. Check out the 'Viral Load' preview scene on the TIM website.

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Edited March 10, 2014 by rawTOP

[rawTOP]

I was just talking to someone in the biz today who works for a studio that has Eastern European models applying and he said a lot of the Eastern European guys are actually poz - even the ones who are str8 / gay-for-pay. They get into gay porn, then start hustling to make a living, and wind up poz. And apparently testing on those Eastern European shoots is spotty at best - so it's a little unclear whether they're getting pozzed on set or from escorting, though the guy I was talking to assumed it's probably mostly from escorting since that's where the guys are having the most sex. So when you watch sites with Eastern European guys you may be watching guys get pozzed.

And Billy is wrong when he says the guys on Lucas are all neg. Lucas has said they serosort. They actually outed some of their models with that announcement since some models are open about being poz but others aren't. So the ones that are paired up with openly poz models you can now assume are actually poz themselves…

[bbinbpark]

I'd be surprised if the serosorting is done effectively at Lucas. Are they doing rapid HIV tests there? What do they do when one of the scene partners comes up positive and one neg? If not, I'm sure there's been some pozzing captured on camera there too.

[fillmyholeftl]

Michael Lucas is a big proponent of PreP. I wouldn't be surprised if his new venture into BB porn isn't related to that.