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Everything You Wanted To Know About Gay Porn Stars But Were Afraid To Ask (Documentary Series)

By Golu
In this revealing look at a taboo world, sixteen of the hottest adult film stars provide a candid and raw insight into their careers and lifestyles, describing in shocking detail the dangers of the gay porn industry. At 7 episodes, of about 25 minutes each, this series does try to go deep into many things. Unfortunately, this documentary series has been produced on an extremely low budget, probably shot with hand help camera, fails to really enlighten audience anything additional about the business that an average person doesn't really already know about. 

The episodes keep cut to cut moving from one person to another answering basic questions like how they got into the business; their childhood, how did they tell their family, self-image; how they "act" (get it up, basically); they're private lives, drugs, especially their romances--or lack of them; and they're coming-out experiences. It also talks about the silly plot lines that they are made to shoot, what crazy stuff they have done. We briefly also hear the story of a porn star who killed a gay porn producer and eventually what these men do to stay relevant in this competitive industry. These series of talking-head interviews edited into themes starts getting boring very soon. The topics would have been ok but these porn stars that were shortlisted are not all that articulate. Nor are their individual stories all that interesting or compelling. They all start to merge with one another after a while. 

Sure this series/documentary came back in 2008 and things have changed drastically, right from how porn is shot and consumed and the cutthroat competition thats out there. I feel that a subject like this in today's time will be a lot more relevant and with the right set of director asking some pertinent questions with hopefully some smart subjects could actually make for an interesting watch. But for now, If you get your hands on this, it could be easily skipped. (3.5/10)
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