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| S4E35: The 4th Joel Someone Interview | 06 Sep 2024 | 01:03:23 | |
Perennial guest and porn star Joel Someone is in New York and I took the opportunity to sit down and catch up. From the Gayvn Awards, garbage picking in New York to his father’s passing; we go deep. | |||
| S4E34: Shan Sayles / Song of the Loon / Roger | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:25:34 | |
Described as gay Louis B. Mayer, the big producer during the golden age of Hollywood, Shan Sayles was a big, boisterous man who owned movie theaters, produced films and cemented his mark on the early days of all erotic film. A beautifully chiseled body, gorgeous face and that damn mustache. A one-named wonder of gay erotica that with the help of industry players, an aggressive manager and rumored lover who devoted their energies and talents in order to create a legend. That legend was Roger. On this episode, we’re going to celebrate Shan Sayles, a legendary exhibitor and one of the first entrepreneurs to comprehensively hire gay men to perform in, direct, write and edit erotic gay films. We will take a look as his film Song of the Loon, one of the first feature-length all male films that premiered during the beginning of the gay liberation era and is about an interracial gay relationship set during the American Frontier in the 1800s. And finally we are going to celebrate Roger; whose meteoric rise made him one the most popular centerfolds and live performers to come out of the golden age of gay erotic cinema. | |||
| S4E25: William Higgins / A Married Man / Kip Noll | 29 Jan 2024 | 00:24:50 | |
In his 40-year career, William Higgins, built a catalogue of over 3,000 films and is considered by many of his peers as one of the most influential and beloved gay porn directors of all time. The film, A Married Man, directed by William Higgins and starring Jack Wrangler was the director’s debut into the maddening world of gay erotic cinema. Kip Noll was a fantasy for so many men. The straight and married model was the first major twink in gay adult film history. In this episode we are gong to celebrate William Higgins, director and founder of Catalina Video who established a reputation for casting young, fresh, handsome, hung models in full-length features with relatable story-lines. We’ll take a look at A Married Man, a classic gay porn film by Higgins, who almost left the business before the film was seen by a savvy theatre and given a proper, successful release. And finally, we are going to celebrate Kip Noll, a gay porn star who was lusted after by everyone and whose popularity was unequaled during his time in the industry until he just disappeared. | |||
| S2E2: The 2nd Dolf Dietrich Interview | 16 Oct 2020 | 00:30:03 | |
Dolf Dietrich is a true International Porn Star and quite a guy all at the same time. He was kind enough to sit down with me again this season and talk a bit about his sheltering during the pandemic and some hard hits life has recently thrown his way. | |||
| S2E1: The HungerFF Interview | 09 Oct 2020 | 00:35:32 | |
What a couple of months it has been! But we're back and the first episode of Demystifying Gay Porn Season 2 promises to be a doozy. Content creator and extreme fister HungerFF joins me and we talk COVID-19, creating content, his two guest spots on the Howard Stern Show and of course, Lady G, Lindsey Graham. | |||
| S1E31: Season 1 Finale | 25 Apr 2020 | 00:20:30 | |
30 episodes and almost a year later; look at how far we've come and it's only the beginning. Check out the last episode of season 1 where I discuss many things I have learned as well as what else I plan on researching and bringing to the podcast. | |||
| S1E30: The Blackmail Fetish Episode | 13 Apr 2020 | 00:20:30 | |
Here is a topic I vow to research and discover more about: The Blackmail Fetish. I received an email from a straight male listener who wanted to talk about a sexual fetish in which he wants to be filmed or photographed while being submissive to another man. The man with the video/pics would then blackmail him for sex whenever he wants with the threat of outing him! | |||
| S1E29: The Esteban Orive Interview | 14 Mar 2020 | 00:14:11 | |
I love, love, love Esteban Orive. He is one of the most intelligent and down to earth porn stars I have met. He joins me on the podcast to talk about his career so far, growing up on the Canary Islands and more! If you speak Spanish, head over to my youtube page and catch an extra ten minutes of our subtitled conversation! | |||
| S1E28: The Drew Dixon Interview | 21 Feb 2020 | 00:38:48 | |
I got to sit down and talk to international gay porn model Drew Dixon. He's an an award-winning exhibitionist and writer from the UK and he's got quite a story. | |||
| S1E27: Founder of Pineapple Support Society, Leya Tanit | 13 Feb 2020 | 00:21:01 | |
The Pineapple Support Society is a free support and therapy service for all persons working in the online adult industry – no matter their gender, ethnic origin, social status, age or sexual preference. I was able to sit down and speak with its founder, Leya Tanit while we were at The Gayvn Awards in Las Vegas. | |||
| S1E26: Betsy the Gay Porn Fan | 01 Feb 2020 | 00:22:05 | |
I ran into Betsy while at the Gayvn Awards in Las Vegas and found out she was a fan of gay porn. So naturally, I needed to have her sit down and talk on the show. What a sweetheart. Enjoy the show! | |||
| S1E25: The Armond Rizzo Interview | 24 Jan 2020 | 00:57:39 | |
I had the pleasure of speaking with one of my favorite performers, Armond Rizzo. Now we go way back but we haven't worked together or seen each other in a minute. But when he sat down and put on those headphones it was like yesterday. | |||
| S1E24: The Jacen Zhu Interview | 11 Jan 2020 | 00:33:25 | |
Porn Star, Producer and advocate Jacen Zhu sits down and talks about his career, the problem with some interracial studios, BDSM and his advocacy work for Prep Squad D.C. | |||
| S4E24: The Teddy Forest Interview | 30 Nov 2023 | 00:38:08 | |
I met Teddy Forest in 2019. He's a blonde hair, blue-eyed charismatic young man. Then he takes off his clothes and gets in front of the camera; unleashing a totally different beast! | |||
| S1E23: The Adam Russo Interview | 21 Dec 2019 | 00:40:35 | |
I've known porn star Adam Russo for years and have had a great working relationship with him, I sit down with him to discuss his porn career and what he is offering the world now. We explore the ins and outs of porn, life and the metaphysical. Enjoy! | |||
| S1E22: The Water Sports Episode w. Luca D'Amore | 12 Dec 2019 | 00:30:22 | |
Italian born newbie porn star and content creator Luca D' Amore sits down to speak with us about Euro/American sexuality, his craving for water sports among other things and so much more! | |||
| S1E21: The Miles Striker Interview (Part 2) | 29 Nov 2019 | 00:30:45 | |
Continuing on from last week, my special guest Miles Striker and I discuss Me Too, getting kicked in the nuts, depression and what makes him feel good now. | |||
| S1E20: The Miles Striker Interview (Part 1) | 22 Nov 2019 | 00:30:41 | |
Mile Striker is an award winning shock value porn artist who produces straight and gay porn fetish clips. An Iraq war vet who found fetish as ptsd relief has done almost everything. | |||
| S1E19: The Macrophilia Episode | 15 Nov 2019 | 00:29:09 | |
Macrophilia is a fascination with and/or a sexual fantasy involving giants and giantesses. My guest this week listened to my call for unusual fetishes and fantasies and came on the show. "Luke," a macophile, discusses growing up with this fantasy and how he uses his imagination to get off. | |||
| S1E18: The Toby Springs Interview | 09 Nov 2019 | 00:32:57 | |
Porn producer and content creator Toby Springs stops by and talks kink, fetish and the weirdest things he's done! | |||
| S1E17: The Julian Torres Interview | 02 Nov 2019 | 00:31:36 | |
The porn world and the gay world lost such a great spirit this Halloween when Luke Harding lost his battle with cancer and we honor him. Then Julian Torres sits down and talks about his rise in porn, fisting, his background and surrealism. | |||
| S1E16: The Antonio Biaggi Interview | 25 Oct 2019 | 00:29:47 | |
It's been 6 years since I've seen Antonio Biaggi but once he sat down, put the headphones and opened his mouth it was as if not a day had gone by! And boy did he have a lot to say about running his own company, his career, a one man show, oh yeah and his twitter account! | |||
| S1E15: The Jake Morgan Interview | 18 Oct 2019 | 00:30:41 | |
Porn Star Jake Morgan sits down to talk about his awesome career and his battle overcoming addiction in his past. | |||
| S1E14: My Top 10 All-Time Scenes While at Dark Alley Media | 12 Oct 2019 | 00:22:13 | |
If you follow my twitter account you will notice I've been counting down the best scenes I've ever shot for Dark Alley and Raw F*ck Club. Join me this week as I reintroduce myself to you and closeout my time with DAM/RFC by counting down the best of the best scenes I directed for them and describe what happened and where! | |||
| S4E23: Joe Gage / Kansas City Trucking Co. / Richard Locke | 21 Nov 2023 | 00:28:01 | |
The late 1970s were an representational awakening for homosexual men. They began to embrace a new vision of themselves as hyper masculine. The rise of the clone look and of bars that catered to them helped push forward this new gay masculinity, but porn took it to the rest of the country and the man who bridged the old world of the closeted straight man and the new gay masculine sexuality was filmmaker Joe Gage. | |||
| S1E13: The Ari Koyote Interview | 08 Oct 2019 | 00:26:34 | |
Atlanta-based kinkster and FTM porn star Ari Koyote joins us today and talks to me about growing up in Atlanta, transitioning and gender politics. | |||
| S1E12: The Atlas Grant Interview | 27 Sep 2019 | 00:30:21 | |
I was hired to shoot a video during NYC's infamous Black Party in 2019 and things went bad fast. Gay porn star Atlas Grant has been a U.S. Marine, a porn performer and an adult content creator. We sit down and talk it all and then some. | |||
| S1E11: Hans Berlin and his musical about porn | 21 Sep 2019 | 00:31:54 | |
International gay porn star Hans Berlin joins us to talk about his career so far and his self-produced musical Shooting Star. We also discuss the U=U campaign, and his involvement through education. | |||
| S1E10: The Politics of Sex Work w. Ryan Powers | 14 Sep 2019 | 00:30:09 | |
I caught up with sex worker and gay porn model Ryan Powers while in New Orleans for Souther Decadence. Our conversation ranges from early childhood, kinks, health, politics and of course porn. | |||
| S1E9: Rapper and Podcaster Big Dipper | 07 Sep 2019 | 00:30:17 | |
American Rapper and podcaster Big Dipper sits down with us in New Orleans and talks about his career as a gay rapper, his music and of course gay porn! | |||
| S1E7: The Danny Blue Interview | 29 Aug 2019 | 00:29:50 | |
Porn star Danny Blue is visiting NYC and stops by to sit down with me and talk about his entrance into porn, his xtube infamy and growing up a shy kid in Iowa. | |||
| S1E6: The Foot Fetish Episode | 17 Aug 2019 | 00:23:09 | |
Flashback to 2007 with a quick story about answering a craigslist ad and getting a job that lasted 12 years and then later my boyfriend of 4 years sits down with me and reveals his foot fetish as well as his likes and dislikes of porn. | |||
| S1E5: The Seth Knight Interview | 09 Aug 2019 | 00:38:44 | |
Porn Star Seth Knight sits down with me and talks about the beginning of his porn career, the word "twink," leaving Wichita Falls, journeying into straight porn, retirement and social anxiety. | |||
| S1E8: The Max Konnor Interview | 01 Aug 2019 | 00:32:33 | |
International porn star Max Konnor joins us and tells us about his intro to porn as well as what he likes and dislikes about the industry and what changes should be made in order to be more inclusive. | |||
| S1E4: The Joel Someone Interview (Part 2) | 25 Jul 2019 | 00:17:19 | |
Since you guys loved Joel Someone so much, here's the second part of our interview where we talk about how big porn studios making and breaking porn stars, the growing number of fan sites and porn culture. | |||
| S4E22: Scott Masters / Greek Lightning / Jimmy Hughes | 20 Oct 2023 | 00:21:22 | |
It’s 1971 and you’re at a Groovy Guy Contest. There, you set your eyes on Jimmy Hughes. Hughes would go on to win the contest and become a sought after model during the early part of the 1970’s before being entangled in rape and kidnapping charges that would landed him in jail in 1974. | |||
| S1E3: The Joel Someone Interview | 15 Jul 2019 | 00:30:58 | |
One of the first projects I edited was a title called, Passio, A gay version of "The Passion of the Christ." Later, Joel Someone sits down with me and discusses his experience two years in the porn industry, his likes and dislikes and growing up confused in New Mexico. | |||
| S1E2: The Champ Robinson Interview | 15 Jul 2019 | 00:24:22 | |
Do you remember the first time you saw fisting porn? Yea, so do I and it was...interesting to say the least. Later, International Porn Star Champ Robinson stops by and talks about his new studio, what it's like to start your own studio and our bond on the loneliness of constant travel. | |||
| S1E1: The Dolf Dietrich Interview | 15 Jul 2019 | 00:21:03 | |
In 2007, I walked into a job interview in Jersey City, NJ and my life has never been the same. Listen to how it all started. Later, I am joined by international porn star Dolf Dietrich who shares stories of his career and how he wants people to remember him as he retires from the gay porn industry. | |||
| S4E21: The Benvi Interview | 16 Sep 2023 | 00:16:41 | |
Young model and adult entertainer Benvi was in New York City recently and I have wanted to sit down and talk to him since I met him in Los Angeles a couple years back. Just in his mid-20's, Benvi has already lived many lives and shares a bit about his struggles with addiction and homelessness that led him to sex work. | |||
| S4E20: The 2nd Sean Duran Interview | 08 Sep 2023 | 00:58:12 | |
Sean Duran appeared on DGP last season and it quickly became one of the most loved and disliked interview of the series. Well this season's interview may prove to be no different. | |||
| S4E19: The Joel Someone and King Dwarf Interview | 16 Aug 2023 | 01:14:40 | |
Joel Someone and King Dwarf have had an amazing year and I was very happy when they reached out to let me know about it. | |||
| S4E18: Open Lines: Adult Baby Diaper Lovers | 11 Aug 2023 | 00:55:42 | |
Adult Babies and Diaper Lovers are growing communities that enjoy role-playing as infants and/or wearing diapers. Both AB and DL are often grouped into a single community as they share similar traits within their members. ABDL can be either sexual or nonsexual depending on the person and how they derive their positive needs of safety, security and coping with stress of everyday life. | |||
| S4E17: Peter De Rome / The Destroying Angel / Will Seagers | 04 Aug 2023 | 00:24:58 | |
How did an expatriate eccentric Englishman armed with a video camera become the Grandfather of Gay Porn? Peter De Rome, whose erotic films were made at a time when doing so was incredibly dangerous and would later gain recognition in the 70’s by Jack Deveau and then again some 40 years later with a new generation. The story behind Peter De Rome’s The Destroying Angel came to be when De Rome noticed that by the mid 70s many subjects were tackled by the gay erotic film except for horror. At that same time, DeRome had wanted to make a film that had been lingering in his mind about twins. What De Rome ended up making was a psychosexual, horror film that bends so many genres.
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| S4E16: The Jordan Jameson Interview | 30 Jun 2023 | 00:23:44 | |
Jordan Jameson is an adult content creator and model who marches to the beat of his own drum. Every shoot I've worked on that he is a part of, he walks into the room and it is his. | |||
| S4E33: The Milking Coach Interview | 12 Jul 2024 | 00:41:42 | |
I have been talking to the Milking Coach about getting together for some time now. While on location in NYC for work, I took advantage of his open morning and came in for the interview. | |||
| S4E15: Jack Deveau/Left-Handed/Wade Nichols | 16 Jun 2023 | 00:26:41 | |
Jack Deveau has been called the master of narrative gay porn. During the 1970’s he molded moody stories that were filled with hot sex and sociopolitical messages and heavily plotted films that still resonate today. Deveau, along with his lover and business partner Robert Alvarez presided over one of the most well-regraded studios of the day, Hand in Hand, that shot and distributed gay erotic movies. In this episode, we will celebrate Jack Deveau, his film Left-Handed and Wade Nichols. | |||
| S4E14: Roger Earl / Born To Raise Hell / Val Martin | 19 May 2023 | 00:17:17 | |
Roger Earl was a documentarian who managed to capture intense BDSM and kink sessions in some of the truest forms of erotic cinema verité, often polarizing and definitely shocking viewers. Earl’s Born to Raise Hell was made at the same time as the other gay landmark films. However, this film’s focus is primarily on gay male sadomasochistic practices and mostly devoid of any traces of tenderness or romance. Val Martin was a fixture in the middle of the golden era of gay porn, starring in various films that teetered on S&M. In the BDSM subsection, Val Martin was a god. In this episode, we will celebrate Roger Earl, a documentarian of BDSM and gay erotic films who strategically planned in preproduction to ensure realism the minute he yelled "Action." We will discuss his film, Born to Raise Hell, that echoes the experimental filmmaking techniques of the 60’s underground and It’s presentation of a sexual subculture where the experimentation lies. And finally we will honor Val Martin, the underground gay porn icon that helped bring out the inner kink in many gay men during the early days of the porn industry. | |||
| S4E13: Open Lines - Furries | 15 May 2023 | 00:26:26 | |
On this episode of DGP: Open Lines we start to explore "Furries." In i's most basic definition, A Furry is a fan of anthropomorphic animals, i.e. a Disney character suit, a mascot , etc... and it doesn't stop there. Furries are part of a growing furry fandom. | |||
| S4E12: Jerry Douglas/The Back Row/George Payne | 04 May 2023 | 00:23:17 | |
Jerry Douglas wore many hats, as a novelist playwright and theater director, but here we will celebrate him as the gay porn director, film historian, storyteller and a mentor to many figures in the gay porn industry today. Douglas is justly celebrated at the director of The Back Row one of the first hardcore films made after Stonewall. Watching it today, The Back Row is a precious artifact showing a pre-Disney Times Square and the seedy, gritty, 70’s New York City that is legend to many people who remember it. But The Back Row also documented a fixture in the culture of gay cruising, the movie theater. Not a lot of people in adult today remember George Payne, though he was one of the more recognizable stars of the golden age of adult film in New York. Payne entered the porn industry in 1972 appearing in The Back Row after coming to New York to do male swimsuit modeling and initially marketed himself towards a gay audience. He transitioned over to the straight side of the industry eventually and gained notoriety for his intense portrayals. In this episode we are going celebrate Jerry Douglas, his film, The Back Row and adult entertainer George Payne. | |||