I'm A Porn Star (Documentary)

An interesting documentary, this is not a thoroughly investigated journalism but it still provides an interesting perspective of the gay porn industry. And as the doc tells us that just the gay porn industry is almost 13 billion industry, much bigger than the music industry definitely deserves some sort of attention. This film focuses on stories of 4 major porn stars who were ok sharing their life stories.

The documentary starts with a quick recap of gay porn right from 30s. Those 10 minutes were most interesting since it was a very breezy, fast paced recap and i learned about the history of gay porn that I had no idea about. And then we are introduced to 4 gay porn stars one after the other and their stories. Our first guest talks about his evolving sexuality over time, how he is married to a transsexual who went through the whole change while they were married, how his relationship evolved with his family. The next 2 are more the gay for pay kind of stories where they both talk bout why they decided to go gay porn because of more money involved and more freedom. We are not supposed to judge them or their decision, after all its work for them. Finally our fourth guy is a charming Canadian porn star, proud and out gay, married to a man and having a very supportive family including parents who are supportive of him and his profession.

I was glad that there was no unnecessary titllation involved in the documentary, although there were more than enough penis shots. Still, I guess the ides was to educate how this is a totally legitimate business and how things actually run in a corporate-ish style, how stories evolve, how actors do their work and how money is made. It's not an old sleazy, porn business owner exploiting young boys kind of world anymore. The doc also talks about issues like barebacking, condom use, HIV etc and although it doesn't take a stand one way or other, it shows us perspective. Amongst the porn starts I found our first guy, married to a transsexual to be the most charming, honest and well spoken man. Rest were all ok.

An interesting, entertaining and sexy look into the world of gay porn. It's no great shakes but still not the worse thing I have seen. (4.5/10)

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