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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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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