How has porn influenced you?

[bberik]

Gay porn didn't make me gay, but it certainly has taught me how to be a pig and what to aim for. And for not wanting to be in a relationship.

On the other hand, studio gay porn doesn't really appeal to me anymore. Now it's private POV that's my thing. Way hotter!

Edited September 26, 2019 by bberik
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[Pozlover1]

26 minutes ago, CuriousDallas said:

In a sense gay porn was my introduction to what gay sex looked like and it both intrigued and appalled me. So many of the guys getting fucked made it look painful, like it was something to be endured, or that they didn’t want to do. I started out watching the Dink Flamingo military porn, which to me at least looked like real guys fucking and not the stylized and overly processed gay porn that’s so common. What I choose reflected my world...I grew up near a military base and saw a lot of guys that looked like the ones in the porno I watched. They seemed approachable and real, plus most of it was bareback and a lot of times the tip came while inside the bottom, which to me is super hot. Buds would watch all kinds of porn, whatever turned them on. It was OK to watch but I’d rather do the real thing than watch it. I can’t control what’s on film, I can’t change the outcome. It’s cool to watch to get horned up if I need it, but I don’t watch for the sake of jacking off...I watch it before I go to class or the gym so I’m ready to cruise. Most porn just bores me. I hate it when the guy pulls out to cum. Most of the guys in it do nothing for me. It also idealizes and romanticizes it to a great extent. In real life it’s almost impossible to line up a “50 load weekend” or you’re gonna wind up taking indiscriminate loads from any guy. I’m luckier in what I want sexually. I also know that they’re fantasies and the porn industry chews up and spits out the guys who populate the movies. They’re mostly desperate young guys with no employable skills who’ve run out of luck and money and need to do it to make ends meet. They’re probably on drugs, hustling, and doing whatever they can to get by. Typically they only do a few and then disappear. Who knows what happens to them. My hunch is some move on to live normal-ish lives but for others it probably ruins them and their prospects. But for me I don’t watch much porn and it doesn’t really do that much for me, other than get my motor running. I still watch the old Dink Flamingo vids...some things never change.

I know the ones made in Prague were heavy on straight guys. Many of the cutest  young European guys have  bad teeth. Iceland, Ireland, the Czech Republic. Weird, even the poorest Mexicans have pretty teeth. In Prague they would endure it long enough to get their teeth fixed (notice they never show them in the porn films). They may think they can get acting jobs, but at least could get regular jobs like hotel or cruise ships, where good looks are a necessity. 

Edited September 26, 2019 by Pozlover1

[NLbear]

Growing up in the 70s limited my exposure to porn. As a 14-15yo all I could do is going to a shop where they sold magazines and cigarettes and watch the covers of gay magazines, even do a quick browse before getting caught. As a 16yo I would go out to the bars with schoolmates (drinking age was 16 at the time, it is now 18) and sometimes feign tiredness just before 12am and then rush to the local cinema where they showed a Late Night Special, a (straight) sex movie. They let me in even though I was clearly not 18 yet (the age limit), probably because there were usually only a handful of people in the theatre. They were silly German or Swedish movies with titles like "With you horn between my Alps" or "Swedish girls on vacation" and the likes. The women were of course the stars of the movies (for the male audience) but I couldn't care less. I got to see naked guys and dicks fucking! Not that they were very attractive but that wasn't the point.

I got my opportunity to see a real gay video when I moved to a big city to study at 17 and found the nerve to go to a sex shop. What happened there I have told a few times already in other threads so I won't go into detail. But it was the first time I sucked cock and got fucked. By the videostore clerk (hot guy). I went back to that videostore many times and watched gay porn until the coast was clear (no other customers) and the clerk came into my booth. But it also started my fascination with gay porn.

There still wasn't an other opportunity to watch porn until the PC came along. I got one early 90s and was hooked. I could spend hours watching porn although it wasn't easy to find the right websites. Advantage was that most of it was for free as there were not many pay sites yet.

And I think I then developed my preference for masculine hairy tops. Twinks or femme guys didn't do anything at all for me. They still don't but maybe that is because I am a bottom and those twinks were too (mostly). I also learned about the various positions you can fuck, even though some were clearly not very comfortable to do but done anyway because of the camera angle. 

I agree with @CuriousDallasthat most major studios porn is boring nowadays but at the time those were a major turn on, even though it was condom porn. I watched everything, from Falcon to Chi Chi LaRue and others. But I started to have a preference for Colt, Titan and Raging Stallion simply because the actors/models appealed to me the most: masculine men fucking masculine men. My all time favorite being movies from director Joe Gage: porn with a storyline. 

Now I mostly watch amateur porn. I don't buy DVDs or download movies because I only watch them once (there are exceptions). I even watch a twink being nailed by one or more masculine guys, as long as he doesn't squel too much 😉 

 

 

[NLbear]

4 hours ago, Pozlover1 said:

Many of the cutest  young European guys have  bad teeth. Iceland, Ireland, the Czech Republic. Weird, even the poorest Mexicans have pretty teeth. In Prague they would endure it long enough to get their teeth fixed (notice they never show them in the porn films). They may think they can get acting jobs, but at least could get regular jobs like hotel or cruise ships, where good looks are a necessity. 

Dental Care has never been a big thing in Europe until the last decade or two. Unlike in the US. Many people have bad teeth, me included because when I was young you went to see a dentist only once a year for a check. Corrections were so expensive you could only afford those if you had rich parents. 

Anyway, I never cared for the videos coming from Czech Republic etc. They usually had skinny twinks in them, which was not really my cup of tea at all. I preferred masculine muscle guys with big dicks, and almost all of those vids came from the US! 

[Guest BritBottom]

"But I started to have a preference for Colt, Titan and Raging Stallion simply because the actors/models appealed to me the most: masculine men fucking masculine men. My all time favorite being movies from director Joe Gage: porn with a storyline "

TITAN - Gale Force: Mens Room II - A Major influence.

 

[Read1]

I also loved and have jerked off to Joe Gage films because for me they were very realistic. There was plenty of group sex and cumloads. I also loved the Cadinot films done in different locations around the world, couples and group sex too. Both steamy hot!!

[Riverfk]

44 minutes ago, BritBottom said:

"But I started to have a preference for Colt, Titan and Raging Stallion simply because the actors/models appealed to me the most: masculine men fucking masculine men. My all time favorite being movies from director Joe Gage: porn with a storyline "

TITAN - Gale Force: Mens Room II - A Major influence.

 

 

I was in the Titan vid "Easy Inn". Unfortunately a condom film, but the actors were very hot and masculine, was a blast to make.😈

[Guest BritBottom]

3 minutes ago, Riverfk said:

I was in the Titan vid "Easy Inn". Unfortunately a condom film, but the actors were very hot and masculine, was a blast to make.😈

Not one I've seen, shall be looking out for it now though

[Riverfk]

2 minutes ago, BritBottom said:

Not one I've seen, shall be looking out for it now though

It was filmed in a hotel in SF that was unoccupied and for sale, the premise being that it was a sleazy/cruisy hotel where men prowled for sex. Our crew made sure that it was...

[DarkroomTaker]

47 minutes ago, Riverfk said:

It was filmed in a hotel in SF that was unoccupied and for sale, the premise being that it was a sleazy/cruisy hotel where men prowled for sex. Our crew made sure that it was...

I'd give my arse up to the room to see that film.😊

[Riverfk]

9 minutes ago, DarkroomTaker said:

I'd give my arse up to the room to see that film.😊

I found a non-audio version on a site called: everydayporn.com.

[DarkroomTaker]

27 minutes ago, Riverfk said:

I found a non-audio version on a site called: everydayporn.com.

Awesome video, love it....sexy man

[DarkroomTaker]

44 minutes ago, DarkroomTaker said:

I'd give my arse up to the room to see that film.😊

Ready, gotta keep my agreement..😜

[ConversionPerv]

3 hours ago, Read1 said:

I also loved and have jerked off to Joe Gage films because for me they were very realistic. There was plenty of group sex and cumloads. 

I'm still a huge fan of Gage's "Trucking" trilogy. And "Heatstroke" too. When I was a young queer just beginning to explore being queer, Gage's porn is the first gay porn I ever saw.

[Guest BritBottom]

38 minutes ago, DarkroomTaker said:

Awesome video, love it....sexy man

Ditto.

As a young man, with no support, fearful and finding his way it was guys in these types of video (men like you) that countered the negative accepted image or rather imposed image  society projected of what gay men were supposed to be and that, even if such  men are well above my league, it was possible to be masculine and love other men -especially when men like these enjoyed the bottom role.  Men like you are my heroes - thanks.