Demystifying Gay Porn

Send us Fan Mail Joel Someone and King Dwarf have had an amazing year and I was very happy when they reached out to let me know about it.   Joel is a DGP perennial guest whose career in the industry I’ve had the privilege to watch explode from coast to cast and studio to studio.  Since last we spoke King Dwarf has gone from social media sensation to reality TV star recently having appeared on Go G...

Send us Fan Mail Adult Babies and Diaper Lovers are growing communities that enjoy role-playing  as infants and/or wearing diapers.  Both AB and DL are often grouped into a single community as they share similar traits within their members. ABDL can be either sexual or nonsexual depending on the person and how they derive their positive needs of safety, security and coping with stress of everyday...

Send us Fan Mail How did an expatriate eccentric Englishman armed with a video camera become the Grandfather of Gay Porn?  Peter De Rome, whose erotic films were made at a time when doing so was incredibly dangerous and would later gain recognition in the 70’s by Jack Deveau and then again some 40 years later with a new generation.  The story behind Peter De Rome’s The Destroying Angel came to be...

Send us Fan Mail Jordan Jameson is an adult content creator and model who marches to the beat of his own drum. Every shoot I've worked on that he is a part of, he walks into the room and it is his.  In this episode we get underneath the surface and find out what it took to make Jordan Jameson his own unique brand in adult entertainment, modeling for print and video and his writing through his...

Send us Fan Mail Jack Deveau has been called the master of narrative gay porn. During the 1970’s he molded moody stories that were filled with hot sex and sociopolitical messages and heavily plotted films that still resonate today.  Deveau, along with his lover and business partner Robert Alvarez presided over one of the most well-regraded studios of the day, Hand in Hand, that shot and distribute...

Send us Fan Mail Roger Earl was a documentarian who managed to capture intense BDSM and kink sessions in some of the truest forms of erotic cinema verité, often polarizing and definitely shocking viewers. Earl’s Born to Raise Hell was made at the same time as the other gay landmark films. However, this film’s focus is primarily on gay male sadomasochistic practices and mostly devoid of any traces...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of DGP: Open Lines we start to explore "Furries." In i's most basic definition, A Furry is a fan of anthropomorphic animals, i.e. a Disney character suit, a mascot , etc... and it doesn't stop there. Furries are part of a growing furry fandom.  My good friend Spike (from the pup play episode) just happened to know a couple of guys in the furry c...

Send us Fan Mail Jerry Douglas wore many hats, as a novelist playwright and theater director, but here we will celebrate him as the gay porn director, film historian, storyteller and a mentor to many figures in the gay porn industry today.  Douglas is justly celebrated at the director of The Back Row one of the first hardcore films made after Stonewall. Watching it today, The Back Row is a  precio...

Send us Fan Mail Content Creator Alex Kof is a Ukranian-born porn model who lives in New York City,  by way of Russia. He began his porn career in Moscow when he met producer Michael Lucas in 2013 and took a break until recent years. Kof decided to leave Russia and he moved to the big apple where he began shooting his own adult content. In our interview he discusses his love of American culture, t...

Send us Fan Mail During the beginning of the gay erotica film explosion, J. Brian was already near legendary as a well known photographer of naked young men. Once he picked up a film camera, he made a handful of significant films that are classics today. Brian’s Seven in a Barn satisfies an an authentic artifact of early gay cinema made especially interesting because of its use of scripted dialogu...

Send us Fan Mail Porn stars embody the sexual ideals of gay men. It is the porn star’s sexual performance that is the portal through which viewers engage with a pornographic movie. Director Fred Halsted considered hardcore porn a performer’s medium—as well as the cameraman’s. Halsted was in all senses a pornographer, but more an experimentalist who went on to make ambitious and experimental films...

Send us Fan Mail On this Open Lines episode of DGP, we are discussing  puppy play, puppy hoods, wagging tails, barking and obedience.  I am joined by two personal friends who sit down to tell me what attracted them to the culture of puppy play and why it is so damn popular.  Puppy (or pup) play is a type of role-play behavior, in the outskirts of the BDSM community, in which adult humans adopt the...

Send us Fan Mail Steven Toushin helped redefine and shape modern perceptions of what is and what isn’t obscene but faced an uphill battle with the moral right and the government, which was practically synonymous in the early days of pornography. The Bijou Theatre opened its doors in 1970 during the height of the sexual revolution and at a time when artists and filmmakers were starting an undergrou...

Send us Fan Mail Gay porn personality Benny Blazin is a smart, charming performer and college student I met in 2019. Every time I book a round of shoots, I make sure to cast him in one position or another.  Benny sits down with me and discusses how he was introduced to the east coast porn industry. From there we talk about his growing up in the Bronx, hook-up applications and websites and his work...

Send us Fan Mail This episode celebrates Tom DeSimone, a gay porn director turned Hollywood filmmaker who helped develop and contributed to the early years of gay porn. I also examine DeSimone’s film The Idol, a coming-of-age film that involves real dialogue and genuine acting as the lead character comes to terms with his sexuality. And finally Jack Wrangler, a 70’s gay porn icon, turned cabaret p...

Send us Fan Mail A listener messaged me on Instagram telling me he gets turned on men by with small dicks. After speaking to him briefly, I was fascinated. I'm in an industry that absolutely idolizes men with huge dicks and sells them to their audience.  There are sites that exist dedicated to men with small dicks, micro penis, etc... They exist however they are mostly humiliation or cuckold...

Send us Fan Mail Pioneering adult filmmaker Wakefield Poole revolutionized gay porn in the early 1970's. Boys in the Sand was the seminal gay porn film that ushered in the era of gay porn chic before Deep Throat. Casey Donovan was the "All-American Boy Next Door," who helped create a genre and was one of the most marketable adult and mainstream models of his time. Listen to all of t...

Send us Fan Mail Gay adult performer Jonah Wheeler began his career during the pandemic and has quickly become a sought after entertainer by collaborators and studios alike. His charming, genuine demeanor and "big brother next door" attitude are on full display as we discuss growing up in the Virginia suburbs outside of Washington, D.C and studying music in college, nurturing a career in...

Send us Fan Mail It has been a long time, but Demystifying Gay Porn is almost here! Season 4 premieres next week but I felt as if devoted listeners, watchers and newcomers may want a taste of some of the changes this season will bring.   There will still be plenty of model interviews. But I wanted to start putting together a detailed history of gay porn with stories of iconic studios, movies and s...

Send us Fan Mail Jim French was a classically trained illustrator who began his career in fashion and later formed small companies selling nude male illustrations during the late 1960's. French would go on to form Colt Studio; America's first gay porn studio. Dakota a.k.a. Ken Sprague was a popular Colt Man who used his earnings and notoriety to buy a declining Gold's Gym in Venice...

Send us Fan Mail It was my pleasure to meet and interview King Dwarf, whose personality, along with, ahem, other appendages made him a star amongst content creators, fan sites and the twitter-sphere.  We met at a dusty motel room in central New Jersey and shot the shit for about an hour about the growing pains early on in life. It wasn't until high school where although bullied, King Dwarf re...

Send us Fan Mail Champ Robinson has been in the middle of a relaunch and promoting his new website Vision X.  On top of that he has been more open about collaborating and also sharing scenes with models that originally belonged solely to him.  It was during one of these content sharing scenes that Champ was confronted by an queer Asian sex worker who was offended by Champ's use of their scene...

Send us Fan Mail Ripper, my guest this week, is a size difference enthusiast who’s into macro fantasy. Unlike  my other guests on the subject though, Ripper is also a content creator and owner of the website Giants and Tiny Feet.  Like many other size enthusiasts, Ripper was fascinated watching movies like "Honey I Shrunk The Kid, and also remembers sharing school spaces with upper class men...

Send us Fan Mail In the late 2010's I began seeing a phrase or new sexual orientation rather, called "the Pornosexual." A pornosexual, more recently also referred to as a solosexual as well, describes a person whose sexual orientation is linked solely to porn.  It's become so easy to get your hands on porn today that some people just don't feel the need to have another per...

Send us Fan Mail I had a couple of interesting conversations that just couldn't wait for Season 4, so here's episode 1 of 5 in a "Summer Series." It's safe to say everyone who listens to this podcast knows what a top is and what a bottom is. But, have you heard of a side?  If you haven't, make way because here they come.  Well they've always been here.  A side is...