Brian Pumper ...
... was on my brain for a minute today. Not a bad image to have marinating around up there. I don't watch straight porn. Oh yeah, I've got that obligatory one that I used to play for tentative straight boyz ... while getting blunted, and before introducing them to something a little different. But I never watch them for my own pleasure ... just too many (as Shane from The L Word put it) ... "panty hamsters" for my taste. But an email is going around, which I've excerpted below, presents disturbing allusions to his health.
" ... recently came across a site that listed the bootylicius Brian Pumper as on[e] of many individuals possiblely exposed to HIV through someone he worked with on a porn project. This site is managed by a porn industry HIV monitoring organization. He is on a DO NOT HIRE list .... They have been put on this list because they have not received an HIV test through this organization ... if any industry should be on alert, it should be the porn industry .... Bottom line, the straight porn industry is the last to learn the lesson about condom use vs non condom use." see Quarantine List
First off ... the site is outdated. Second ... still, its a horrible invasion of one's privacy. The writer is accurate that straight porn went to condoms later than gay porn, and have learned lessons because of it. But what lessons have we learned?
There is this growing trend back to raw fucking. Personal ads where people seek raw sex ... and porn videos that specifically target the raw' market (where the exchange of bodily fluids is clearly intentional). I could mention some by name but I won't. I own some though. And here's the scary part ... I like them better. Yeah. The raw action of flesh against flesh just can't be beat. A condom is always the unnatural extra when sex is afoot, and can be as unstimulating on-screen ... as it is off.
This doesn't mean that I would be stupid enough to go out in the real world and fuck some stranger without protection. Or does it? Am I programming my brain for disaster? Are we all sliding down that slippery slope back to anything goes kinda fuckin'?
I'm not smart enough to answer that. I just know what I see. Less and less condoms, on and off screen. Can it be that so many of us are positive, that we've developed this devil-may-care attitude toward sex and HIV? Yeah, I was thinking of Brian Pumper, but now I'm more concerned with us. Are going back to the pre-condom days of porn icons like Joe Simmons?
And if that's the case ... where the hell is this gonna end?
Hmmm ....
9 comments:
brian pumper's one of my favorite porn stars after mr marcus and wesley pipes (where the fuck do they get them names). hope he's ok. as for that list? whoa! is all I can say. gross invasion.
the incidence of HIV is on the rise in the UK and points to the increase of "devil may care" raw dawg.
raw sex.
condom absolutists condemn it. barebackers make it their mantra.
condoms help stop spread of other STDs besides HIV. and i dont mind tapping azz wearing a raincoat or getting pipe when the jimmy's got a hat. but i dont suck dick when a condom is on. my lips and mouth reject latex, my booty doesnt care.
fucking raw is a forbidden pleasure. a pleasure that has been taken away from us by HIV. because im POZ, I can enjoy raw it with other POZ guys.
it comes down to two equally unsatisfactory choices. (1) do you risk your life and health for the short term pleasures of fucking raw (2) or do you forever forego the intimacy of skin-to-skin contact and continually go through the trauma of getting tested just to prove the wisdom of your choice. i discuss some HIV issues and blog about general topics.
this is something that i rarely hear people acknowledge. it's actually something that's been on my mind, all day as well cuz I went and got tested about a month ago when i broke up w/ my bf, and i got back together w/ him and forgot all about it, but we've only used protection a few times, we usually do not... i'm not THAT worried about it, or him... but i have yet to go back to the clinic to pick up my results... a little afraid, but it's serious... i'm actually going right now, peace
great post btw -- keep keepin' it real
I watch straight porn sometimes, and I have yet to see one recent film where condoms were used.
HEY - got my results back: all NEGATIVE... :)
i think i know what my next post is gonna be about, i'll reference u, too... peace
mhm @ brian pumper. and i feel H!V is definitely no joke now-a-days with people in my age group...
excellent post pa..can i jus say the site of brian pumper still makes my tongue HARD!! i love me some him...whew.. lol
Damn good post, and I have to agree with all you said. Yes I love to watch porn, and Yeah the raw action of flesh against flesh just can't be beat. But we all have to think for ourselfs and be safe.
KD
It's amazing the number of guys that have raw sex. Before I get with a guy, I usually run a quick test. I pretend that I am going to enter him without a condom and see how it reacts. 90% of the time, the guys don't say a word. I get really close then I stop and pull-out a condom and give them a brief safe-sex sermon. You know what's really sad? Almost all these guys are college kids (some of them are graduate students) and they still allow this shit. I am very worried about the health future of the black gay community - I hope we don't spend most of our hard-earned money enriching pharmaceutical companies for HIV treatment.
Thanks for posting!
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