John Roecker (director of the upcoming Green Day documentary Heart Like a Hand Grenade, and cult hits Live Freaky, Die Freaky and Svengali) set out to explore the world of the sex industry and wound up making frank, bold documentary Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars, *But Were Afraid to Ask!
The seven episodes which aired on Here! TV featured some of the hottest names in the male sex industry, talking about the how and why of their careers. The actors discuss their past history as abused children, their drug use, their love lives off screen, their pasts and their futures. It's gritty and gnarly, moving. Out of 16 of the actors, two are now dead, and one, Harlow Cuadra, is in prison. Roecker told me, "I want these guys to be heard, I want to give them a voice."
But the opportunity to learn about the human side to these men has just gotten smaller, even though the DVD collection of Roecker's documentary is about to be released.
I went to Amazon to pre-order Everything as a gift for a friend who is a fan of gay porn as well as the band Rancid and punk hero Tim Armstrong who donated music for the series.
Everything wasn't listed as available now or for pre-sale. It wasn't listed at all. But Salo -- with fourteen-year-olds having sex -- was. So was Behind the Green Door. And Deep Throat. And The Devil in Miss Jones. Jenna Jameson's autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star is readily available. Oh heck, Amazon sells Paris Hilton's sex tape, and have pre-orders available for thousands of books, CDs and DVDs. Why not Roecker's look at the gay sex business?
Oddly Amazon doesn't stock another film from the same distributor, Dream Boy, an R-rated feature which was released theatrically with good reviews. The film features the rape of young gay male character by another young man. The rapist claims he is straight. Amazon stocks Hound Dog with Dakota Fanning as the victim of a brutal on-screen rape.
One person who queried Amazon about Everything received this stock reply:
As a retailer, our goal is to provide customers with the broadest selection possible so they can find, discover, and buy any item they might be seeking. That selection includes some items which many people may find objectionable. Therefore, the items offered on our website represent a wide spectrum of opinions on a variety of topics.Amazon.com believes it is censorship not to sell certain titles because we believe their message is objectionable. Therefore, we'll continue to make controversial works available in the United States and everywhere else, except where they're prohibited by law.
Email and a call to Amazon's PR department were not returned.
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Phil Griffin, M$NBC President, bans a journalist from appearing on Griffin's network because the journalist made Joe Scarborough say a word that Scarborough didn’t want to say, and you are worried because there isn’t more porno offered on Amazon?
Amazon has almost no concern for this because people across the country can go to the same "shop" and pick up what they are looking for.
I think you need to get over your faux outrage and do something more pressing with your life...like seek out those DVDs you have cried about in not less than 2 posts.
Amazon may indeed have some obscure and convoluted "screening process" but I don't really care in this day and age I can get anything from anywhere with minimal inconvenience.
No one has heard back from Amazon about what exactly in the content bothers them. Considering what else they stock, it's be interesting to learn why a documentary which treats porn actors with compassion and dignity is not acceptable to them.
Thank goodness for Netflix which doesn't seem to have the same blue-stockinged prudery.
It is possible an online retailer (or group of retailers) who has a customer base who would be more likely interested in this movie (most likely a large gay customer base) paid for exlusive rights to sell this movie for a period of time, freezing out Amazon. Amazon would not make much on this movie, so they wouldn't care to counter, while a small reatiler may bring in many more customers, and the movie makes more on each copy sold.
to a compassionate and patient sugar daddy,
That is a poignant prelude to a soul-stirring week-end of intimate cuddling, heart-felt bonding and
mind blowing gay sex.
This affair will long remain a deeply-felt event in the life of a super hard-working, yet romantic minded and highly selective multi-millionaire.
Is'nt it just human nature to desire everything about this special affair be preserved with the
satin gloss of personal and private memoire.
The sweet young vagabond may have moved on to follow the call of wanderlust,
but the older lover left behind is still pained by the thought that anyone can PRESS PLAY
on Scene 16 of a DVD and gain admission to partake of what once belonged to just two.
Bezos is not superman, he is human too.
We should feel a bit more free to empathize, now.
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Everything_You_Wanted_to_Know_About_Gay_Porn_Stars/70139450?strackid=2cb0a228325fa94b_0_srl&strkid=1183598220_0_0&trkid=438381