![]() ![]() And I had what you call a demo, an 8mm film that I would run. JIM HODGES: I was traveling the country, checking into hotels, meeting interested customers that were interested in buying films. Brian and have it edited because the guy had a lot of money in it. Brian found out what he had shot, they got into a fistfight. I don't think he went home but once or twice a month. ![]() He spent most of his time at one of my houses and actually almost moved in. So they introduced me to Jim and we just were friends right away. Brian and brought Jim Hodges in, which is John Travis. They started shooting boys with no clothes on and oh - the books were selling like you wouldn't believe. ![]() There were about three guys that were shooting what they called beefcake. VAUGHN KINCEY: Before you couldn't actually see a penis, you couldn't actually see it. I read Candy and Lady Chatterly's Lover and Henry Miller and I went to all the nudist camp and exploitation movies right up to when hardcore finally became legal. If you call that porn, that was the first porn I saw. And I used to shoplift them because I was too afraid of buying them. What was thought of as porn back then was pin-up magazines like Vim and Vigor and all those Bruce of. JOHN WATERS ("Pope of Trash," director Pink Flamingos): When I was young there was no legal hardcore porn. Here, in the words of those who were there is how it all began. Some of these stories made it into the film, which screens this summer at dozens of festivals, including Outfest in Los Angeles on July 13. While working on Seed Money, a documentary about Chuck Holmes - who founded Falcon Studios, and went on to become the most commercially successful of the four - I kept coming back to the risks and adventure of those first years post-Stonewall. Driven by the exuberance of gay liberation and profit, they delivered to millions of gay men the first vision of what an out, unashamed gay life might look like.īut 40 years later, they and the risks they took are still largely unknown and unacknowledged. Gay films made by gay men for a gay audience. In the late 1960s and early 70s, they - under the pseudonyms John Summers, Matt Sterling, John Travis, and Bill Clayton - helped pioneer what would become the gay pornography industry. 146).Few men have had as much an effect on gay culture as Vaughn Kincey, Jack Dufault, Jim Hodges, and Chuck Holmes. And these authors further observe that though bottoms strongly outnumber tops in gay porn, the tops “are the biggest stars with the biggest fan bases and the biggest paychecks” (p. All you need to do is walk into a bar and flex your pecs and a dozen bottoms will throw themselves at you’” (p. A somewhat comically exaggerated quote that Ogas and Gaddam offer to illustrate this situation is from a 37-year-old gay man, who laments: “‘Tops have it so easy. Gay porn, viewed in terms of “tops” and “bottoms” (or “doms” and “subs”), reveals that most gays prefer the bottom position. But here, too, the dynamic would seem to indicate that gays’ brains are “preloaded” to gender cues that (if anything) are hyper-masculine, since they’re generally attracted to males more masculine than they are. Most gays’ preference for taking the submissive role in sexual interactions also runs counter to the dominance a clear majority of heterosexual men favor. Do Accessibility and Anonymity Lead to Problematic Porn Use? ![]()
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