Friday, April 08, 2005

So the creator of aforesaid bareback videos, Paul Morris, has several pungent essays on his website outlining his philosophy of sex. Here are some excerpts:

"I had coffee a few days ago with a young man who calmly and cheerfully told me about his Wednesday night: he had snorted a bump of crystal, gone to a sex-bar South of Market, and been fucked by so many men that, as he put it, "I lost count at 20 of the hot loads that I took up my ass." He fucked there until the bar closed, at which point he walked to a nearby sex club, Mack, with cum dripping down his pants legs. At the sex club he was fucked by a half-dozen other men. I asked him why he was doing this. He responded, "My diagnosis was a wake-up call. My life is limited. I want to be happy." ...

... in the context of the larger culture — and certainly in the context of the medical / epidemiological culture — this is irresponsible behavior, a fact argued with intelligent futility by Gabriel Rotello.

In the context of a sexually-based American male subculture, however, "unsafe sex" is not only insane, it is also essential. For a subculture to be sustained, there must be those who engage in central and defining activities with little regard for anything else, including life itself. In a sense, not only the nature but also the coherence of the subculture is determined and maintained by passionate devotees who serve a contextually heroic purpose in their relationship with danger, death and communion."

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1 Comments:

Blogger StinkyLulu said...

Wow. Thanks for the link to the essay by Paul Morris. (I've only read the one from which you offered quotes.) I'm curious for your take on Paul Morris. I find it also interesting that you noted Treasure Island for its sponsorship of a NYC queer media event. First, it seems noteworthy that Treasure Island has grown (since these comments in 1998 & since the relative boom in 'amateur' porn on digital video since 2000) to be a complex "porn studio" with a fairly vast catalog & is now sponsoring promotional booths at selected gay events, just like Titan and Falcon. Second, the nature of the event being sponsored suggests a kind of marketing strategy on the part of Treasure Island as the "aesthetic outlaw" -- in terms of art/politics/sex/health/whatever -- of porn producers. This is really tough stuff for me & yet Paul Morris' 1998 essay is among the only commentary I've seen to get anywhere near the core issues of the matter.

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