Should gay porno embrace body positivity?

[+ robear]

Porn gets made that sells to somebody, it's purely market driven, good intentions aren't gonna bring in paying subscribers. 

That said, there's something out there for everybody, especially in this age of post-studio era, do-it-yourself porn. I personally have always found conventional commercial porn, and the men hired to perform in it, deadly dull, of no real interest at all. I certainly have never paid for it. There's plenty of porn out there featuring performers similar to every one of the models shown at the top of this thread. (With the exception, perhaps, of the model whose features suggest Down Syndrome.) The markets for "niche" performers are obviously smaller, but they certainly exist.

Somebody just revived the venerable "Bear Magazine" brand, which was seen as game-changing in the late-80s. It was the first time a commercial producer really stepped outside the presumed tastes of gay porn customers of the time, and was met with runaway success.

[marylander1940]

 

 

Bone Flexx, Sailor Blue & Aiden Storm

2 of the performers have "average" bodies by American standards.

[Decatur Guy]

While physical appearance matters to me, it's not the most important thing. I care more about the vibe, the scenario and what they're doing. Plus, I find a pretty wide variety of types attractive. I'm not hooked on a particular body shape or younger/older or one particular ethnicity, etc. So I'm all for porn casting a wider net. 

My ideal porno scene: Two masculine, verbal tops talking a shy, reluctant bottom into having sex and then pushing his limits. And if they happen to be "average Joes" vs. model looks, that's fine.

Edited September 21, 2023 by Decatur Guy

[marylander1940]

50 minutes ago, Vegas_Millennial said:

That may be.  But I'm not looking to sleep with everyone in the whole world.  The few thousand I've attracted so far has been plenty.

Similarly, I don't need to find the few escorts that are out of my price range and try to get them to discount their rate for me based on my handsome good looks.  There are plenty of escorts out there.  And while I've hired fewer of them in the U.S. since RentMen prices were taken down, the ones I do hire I see more often if only because I know what price to expect and what service to expect.

 

59 minutes ago, DWnyc said:

As an aside - when I’ve seen pics of spouses of providers - or in some cases even met them - while many are indeed magazine cover gorgeous like their partner … they’ve often been surprisingly “normal” and sometimes do fall into “not good looking” / “less good looking” buckets some of us obsess over. Including obese. The kind you wouldn’t expect to say typically”I’m dating a porn star …”

 

 

I'm just quoting you guys on here not to drag another thread out of subject and to bump this interesting thread. 

If SO many providers are truly into overweight men how come, we don't see them represented in gay porno?

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

2 hours ago, marylander1940 said:

If SO many providers are truly into overweight men how come, we don't see them represented in gay porno?

Because professional pornography is made for the customer's fantasy, not the performer's 😉.

Edited March 14 by Vegas_Millennial
Changed provider to performer

[marylander1940]

23 minutes ago, Vegas_Millennial said:

Because professional pornography is made for the customer's fantasy, not the provider's 😉.

Are you implying most providers think differently thn the average gay men when it comes to what's good looking and what isn't?