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 that included some of the first visual examples of fisting and would garner critical acclaim for his work during his lifetime. L.A. Plays itself, his initial film is his grand opus. Although the film is not considered a masterpiece in any conventional way, it is beloved but Halsted fans and art critics and broke new ground while it the groundwork was being laid down in gay erotic cinema. Whenever you think of Fred Halsted from this moment on, you will come to associate him with Joey Yale. Yale’s iconic appearance in L.A. Plays Itself as a fisting bottom would begin a friendship, partnership and tumultuous relationship with Halsted that would tie them together forever in history. On this episode we celebrate Fred Halsted, His film L.A. Plays Itself and Joey Yale.

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 characteristics of dogs. But just as with canines, there are hierarchies and roles. Spike, whom I've known for years, is a pup handler, a person who enjoys role-playing as someone who takes care of a pup. His fiancé, Strike, is an alpha pup, a more dominant pup among other pups or a pack setting. It sounds like a lot to wrap your head around but imagine taking a break from stresses of your life, clearing your mind, lowering your defenses and being taken care of. Oh and let's not forget an endless amount of attention, cuddling and treats! It is undeniable that there a psychological appeal that has attracted more people to puppy play and has also given its practice more attention. Listen and enjoy!

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 underground film scene in various parts of the country. The name Bijou would go on to become synonymous with gay porn films and distributes some of the biggest classics in the genre. Centurians of Rome was one of many films that was distributed by Bijou Video and claims to be one of the most expensive gay films of its time at a budget of nearly 100,000 dollars. Centurians of Rome’s story is one of a sociopath, a million dollar bank robbery and the rumor that it is owned by on a prestigious insurance company in London.

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 with sex work advocacy. Enjoy!

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 producer who was a legend in his time and whose stardom coincided with the gay liberation movement making him a role model for many men. Enjoy!

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 websites where a scene partner points, makes fun and degrades the subject. Here's Matt, a listener who had an encounter with man who kept telling him he had the smallest dick. When Matt didn't believe it could be that small, the man got fully hard, dropped his pants and showed him. In that moment something changed in Matt and he's been fantasizing about men wth small dicks since. How small? Listen and find out.

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 this fascinating history and more on this episode of Demystifying Gay Porn. Enjoy!

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 the city as a musician. Oh and of course, some of the things that help make Jonah Wheeler who he is sexually.

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 stars. Let me know what you think and please enjoy! If you like what you hear and want to be a part of the process of creating this podcast and youtube channel, head over to patreon.com/demystifyinggayporn. Cheers!

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 Beach and turn it into a household name.

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 received a confidence boost when the guys in the locker room began to notice and admire his big dick! Then, one day after high school, he jumped onto Chatburbate turned on his camera whipped his dick out and started jerking off in front of curious viewers. It changed his life. From there, King Dwarf went on to being a Tumblr star before the sites ill-fated decision to move away from it’s money maker. Following that King Dwarf began to take nude photos, post on twitter and his now a fully-fledged adult content creator on fan sites. With his newly crowned notoriety in the adult entertainment industry King Dwarf has also found his family of friends that love and support him as well as a new love interest! From studio work to other ventures find out what’s next for King Dwarf all during this candid interview. Enjoy!

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 on his website series called "Cum Dumplings," which features Asian models as the bottom. One thing led to another and the following week Champ and his studio were at the receiving end of backlash by a group of queer Asian sex workers who demanded he change the name of his series. I originally asked Champ to come on the podcast while all of this was going down to try and explain his side of the incident better but he was sick in bed and not mentally prepared for it. I caught up with him this week and gave him this opportunity to tell his story.

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 who towered over him as a kid. We discuss how macro changed for him during puberty and how like many others in the community with similar tastes, how joining the forum Coiled Fist opened up a world of possibilities. Standing 6’4, an object of fantasy to other macro members himself, Ripper discusses dating men who were a lot shorter and being disappointed due to his fantasy of being “The tiny," writing fan fiction and how he went from fan to content creator and everything that comes with the territory of owning your own studio. Please enjoy!

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 person in the room. I received a message from a listener named Timmy, a self-described pornosexual who is a gay man in his mid-sixties who discovered porn while in his teens by way of Blue Boy magazines and VHS tapes. After a 26 year long relationship Timmy is now in a healthy relationship with himself and his love of porn. During our conversation we discover a little more about the age demographic of gay men who lived through the AIDS epidemic; a time where being alone and finding new ways to get off may have saved your life. In there a correlation? Yes, to an extent. This is a great episode filled with some history and Timmy's story. Enjoy.

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 basically described as a gay man who doesn't enjoy receiving or giving anal sex. But we don't want basics. That's why we reached out to OtterXaddy (pronounced Otter Zaddy) who is a side, to lay it all out for us. In this episode you will learn that a side is more than just a "gay man who doesn't like anal sex," it is everything sexual including oral, kinks, fetishes minus anal. So if you think about it; we've all participated as a side at one point or another. Otter details moments in his dating history when he realized he just wasn't that into anal sex, but loved everything else that came with being a gay man and how sides are made to feel like less of a gay man by others who don't understand them. This is a great conversation filled with so much to learn and I hope you enjoy it as much as we had putting it together. P.S. If you have any questions you'd like to ask our guest this week, here is his twitter handle: @otterxaddy

What can I say about Youtube Star Davey Wavey that he hasn’t already said or that you might not be aware of? I got an email from Davey Wavey in March about connecting and was blown away; how on earth did he find my dog and pony show? Lol! Of course I know who Davey is but it wasn’t until a listener of the podcast asked me about a studio called Himeros TV that I finally made the correlation. Davey Wavey is the creator of Himeros TV; an adult platform aiming to revolutionize gay erotica as we know it. During this episode, Davey and I talk about his early days on YouTube before it became the juggernaut it is today. We discuss his channel, growing an audience and his shift towards more sexually charged content that led to Himeros TV. Davey opens up about his relationship with gay porn while growing up and the lack of intimacy, depth and originality that has long been associated in the adult entertainment industry today. This led him to venture into starting his own studio that would be "like gay porn but better." But do we really need another gay porn studio? Was there initial pushback from other studios? Why is Himeros TV a better way to watch porn? You will get it straight from Davey's mouth on the season 3 finale of Demystifying Gay Porn. Enjoy.

If you haven’t already listened to the two macrophilia podcasts on the previous seasons Demystifying Gay Porn, JoeVoter is here to share his experiences with this fascinating fetish more popularly known as "Size Kink." Size kink goes by many different names. Macrophilia, macro for short, being the most basic definition you will find in an easy search. Then theres size fetish, size kink, etc...today and form here on out, I will use the term size kink. I have reached out to a couple of producers and members of the size kink community for this season but unfortunately, our schedules did not coincide. I posted a message on a Facebook group I found and to my delight, JoeVoter, messaged me and said he would be thrilled to talk to me about how he discovered his love of all sizes. JoeVoter, his handle on social media, and I open the discussion with a brief description of what a size kink means to him, how he came to find any material pertaining to his particular taste when he was young and how everything changed when he came across a forum known as coiled fist. Coiled Fist a popular forum, home to members of the size community. If you're still a bit confused about what a size kink is, you may have recently stumbled upon a popular meme, picture or video that almost broke the internet. The now infamous scene was featured in Amazon Prime’s The Boys, which knowingly or unknowingly to the producers features of the most homoerotic size kink scene to date! Oh yeah, you better believe we talk about that! Enjoy.

A couple of weeks ago during a monthly sweep for new models in the NYC area, I noticed a cute Only Fans model who appeared on my Twitter feed. When I clicked on his page I noticed he was following me! I was like, "How did I miss this kid?" I reached out to Miguel, better known in the sex Twitter-sphere as "Migs," and wanted to see if he was interested in joining me on the podcast and he agreed. Migs, a first generation Mexican-American talks about growing up in New Jersey and moving to New York City and falling into porn content creation almost by accident. After getting serious, he established a core base of Filipino fans who thought he may himself be Filipino and to whom he is grateful for. Migs and I discuss growing up in a single-parent Latin family, moments of sexual awakening, Only Fans as a steady income and his plans for the future. Enjoy!

It's been a while since Betsy, the female gay porn fan helped us get a woman's perspective of gay porn on season one of the podcast. I recently received an email from Christina, a fellow enthusiast in which she proclaimed her love for gay porn. So naturally, I wanted to hear all about it. Oh, but that's not all! Christina is an extremely sex positive, confident tax attorney who also happens to be a highly functional autistic person. She further shattered so many preconceived ideas I had about women and porn. During our conversation she discusses finding erotica which then led to porn and finally gay porn. She then describes what it was like growing up hiding erotic novels from her Baptist mother, who wanted to raise Christian soldiers. We also talk how normalizing sex through honest conversation and education will allow people to connect and will inevitably save the world. Gosh, this was a fun episode! I hope you enjoy.

Jake is an avid listener of the DGP podcast. When he reached out to me through Instagram we spoke briefly about his appreciation of men's underwear. After a couple of conversations, I asked him to come on the show and share his story. Jake has a collection of underwear that is close to four hundred pair deep. It’s what he likes and it’s what gets him off. Furthermore, Jake has a good understanding of the confidence a nice pair of underwear imbue in a man. During our discussion I learned of Jake's experience growing up in a military family with a healthy dose of euro-centric body positivity. Jake then reveals how he discovered his underwear fetish and explains how he navigates his life and current relationship after the dissolution of a long marriage. And there's so much more, so sit back and enjoy! .