I think most gay men will admit that having sex with a straight guy is something that they find very exciting, so it comes as no surprise that there is a disproportionate percentage of men working in gay porn who identify as straight. This documentary from few years back takes this fact and tries to get answers to some of the questions that we may have been thinking for a while now. Why would a straight man do gay porn? What motivates him to try this or make a career of it? But more importantly, why is the consumer of the gay porn so interested in knowing the personal sexuality of the actors. And why do we skew the numbers towards them so much that the percentage of straight men in gay porn is higher.
This documentary interviews many gay4pay performers who themselves explain from their own experience their point of view what means and feels to be a straight man in the gay porn industry, and how it affects their own lives. For the "straight" men, they talk about what motivated them to go into the industry. Its fascinating to hear them talk about their lives outside of porn. If they still consider themselves straight even though they have sex with men, if their families and significant others know about their career & if they did know, how did they react. One of the performers go really deep on how this all affects his married life. Also this was probably sponsored by Sean Cody since the name was mentioned more than a handful times. Part of me wanted to like this documentary but honestly it was slow moving, monotonous and narratively flat. The topic is interesting and could make for an engaging watch, but somehow this was just not. All the "straight" guys sounded dumb in their interviews and the actual gay guys were average. Honestly the street interviews were way more interesting than the porn performers. All the people's answers were exactly what you expect and what you already know, so in that sense this documentary really doesn't present anything new at all. This one can easily be skipped. (2/10)
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