Condoms, yes or no? A simple question that any porn filmmaker will have to face at their very first movie. It may sound simple at first, but the truth is that with this question comes a much bigger conversation – from safe sex to the role of porn in today’s society.
Should all porn performers use condoms during shootings? Should this be mandatory? What are the real effects of showing a condom on a porn film?
In my films I don’t ask performers to put on condoms. If they want to use it and it fits the script, that’s great, but in general I’ll always look for some free, naked skin touch. Why? Because I’m making pornography, and not a sex education book. Just hear me out before you call me rude.
First things first: when it comes to safety, it’s important to know that everyone is tested. If you have sex with a porn performer, chances are you’ll have the safest sex of your life. These guys are constantly checked for everything – exams are required for each and every casting process. If tests don’t come out fine, it’s a problem and they’ll have to fix that first. Porn producers and filmmakers just won’t take the risk of getting anyone sick.
The most annoying part of the discussion, for me, doesn’t have to do with the safety of the people involved, but in showing to the viewer that using condoms is the right thing to do. Yes, that might be true, but I don’t see how a porn director should be entitled to teach this message.
I don’t believe that porn has to be educational. I don’t think porn needs to tell people what to do. Porn is fantasy, is entertainment. It’s a manifestation of eroticism, pleasure and sexuality, and as an artistic product it shouldn’t be put in a place as to follow protocols.
Of course porn films have become a big part of sex-ed, specially after the red tubes and so. But it isn’t and shouldn’t be the only source of information. Come on family members and educators, a little more effort in this area please!
I’m not saying that porn doesn’t have influence in people’s lives – as we know it does. (And I’d love to write more about this later if you are interested.) I’m just saying that, if I am able to make a film in which the sex is beautiful and pleasurable, and makes you feel good when watching it, then that should be good too.
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nico –
I’m back..for the last time, I swear.
Just because I’ve been over-the-top rude in my first post, not much better in the second one..It didn’t make any sense..
I admit your work differs a lot from other gay porn movies.The Bottom point is the bareback stuff but I can also understand your point of view.I’m overemotional in a bad way..maybe I wish I could live my life of 40 year old gay man without feeling I’m constantly in danger, and I could have free condoms sex.Unhappily as we say in french ” ce n’est pas demain la veille”.sorry again…
nico –
Yes§ indeed you really Don’t mind! At least other studios aknowledge the fact they do bareback to attract the viewers, to make money!Hypocrites pretend to make art!It’s weird that bareback movies Always show cum facials, breeding and so on…the most extreme and Dangerous sexual practices..maybe not for the models but for all the viewers who Don’t have the information to protect themselves ‘and sometimes will never get it.So your answer speaks for itself.You Don’t care.. the trashy gay porn is why regular gay men are constantly bullied by homophobic pigs, why homophobia is ramping up everywhere.. Keep doing your work but please never ever come over here in Paris if you want to Promote this kind of stuff.
nico –
Condoms are not mandatory? In which world? certainly not in this world where AIDS and other diseases are spreading big time. But you just care about your selfish
You are certainly not an artist,just another guy obsessed to make money? What’s better to make money? violence trash and raw se!
nico –
condoms are not mandatory?
yes thanks to people like AIDS syphylis and other diseases are spreading big time!you are not an artist just a man using people to make money. you and your performers are just a pile of trash
noelalejandro –
Whats wrong with being a pile of trash so? I really don’t mind. thanks!
Doc –
I would have to agree with AC. So long as everyone is tested, condoms are not necessary. So many good films are ruined when condoms are used or when an actor ‘pulls’ out to ejaculate. In “Thank You” there is no doubt it happens while inside both the other actor and the condom, one merely has to watch his face or the way his testicles retract. In Eloi and Biel, one of the best films yet, there is no doubt about the who cums where. The beauty is in the expressions that can’t be faked and this is what I would like to see more of. If an actor is giving a BJ it isn’t necessary to have a facial, such a waste. Cum in the mouth,focus on the body triggers, the perineum pulsing, the testicles retracting and yes, swallowing after showing the evidence.
Tim –
As far as I see is “Thank you” your only film where the actors use a condom. Does that have to do with this film in particular? I enjoy the film very much. The sex is very intimate, no matter whether a condom is used or not. What I miss is that you didn’t show the fucker’s cumshot in this film. It seems that he cums internally into the condom – or he didn’t come at all. If he came into the condom, it would have been nice to see the condom with the ejaculate inside.
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Tim
AC –
THANK YOU!!! You wrote out my thoughts exactly when it comes to enjoying Porn!