I found this lengthy multimedia report Special report: Gay-4-Pay in Prague from Global Post via Fleshbot and Queerty. The report discusses Gay 4 Pay and reveals many gay pornographic aspects in Czech Republic.
In this GlobalPost investigative report, Prague correspondent Iva Skoch gained rare access to one of Eastern Europe’s most secretive industries, uncovering a world where shifting human sexuality meets rampant commercial demand. It is an industry where global economic crisis mixes with the latest web technologies, set amid the upheavals of Eastern Europe’s uneven transition from communism to a raw form of capitalism.
In the video, you can see some footage from Lucas Entertainment‘s Inside Prague and many porn models from WILLIAMHIGGINS.COM including the interview with William Higgins himself.
+ Read entire article Special report: Gay-4-Pay in Prague
+ William Higgins | Bel Ami Online | Lucas Entertainment
Oh, and speaking of lengthy documentary, check out Making of Pleasure Hunt for some behind the scenes footage and interview with the cast of Diamond Pictures‘ PLEASURE HUNT.
thomas says
Pragues as a gayporn Capital? I don’t think that.
As I know Budapest, Hungary is the porn capital of Europe. There are many str8 porn and gay porn studios are there. I’m not sure, but probably 21Sextury is a Hungarian company – they’ve got plenty of str8 websites. My friend told me that the Hungarian guys and chicks are really cool. They are beautiful!
And there are many gay porn studios. And many gay/str8 porn stars live there. Wish I were there!
QMN says
Quote from article page 4
“Both the Czech Republic and Hungary became major sources of world porn production. Prague became known as the capital of gay porn, while Budapest kept most of the straight porn business.”
thomas says
QMN: I don’t think that. Read older and more articles 😉
QMN says
Czech Republic gaining on Hungary as European porn production capital
http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=43093
waht! says
My first boyfriend was Hungarian…. Czech & Hungarian guys are beautiful, I want to marry one 🙂
Renny says
Despite all the fairy tales told by the so-called straight models seen in the documentary Making of Pleasure Hunt, I do not believe that these guys are real heteroxual men and have girlfriends.
Most of them love to fuck a man’s ass and in my book that means they are gay men who pretend for whatever reasons to be straight.
What kind of bullshit are we willing to listen to to to be able to fantasize on REAL GUYS.
For a gay man a real guy is a gay man!
iaag says
No one knows shit about Prague including the author of this article.
1) Prague is not in Eastern Europe, nor is the Czech Republic. It is in Central Europe – look at a map! Most of Austria is east of the Czech Republic, and no one calls Austria Eastern Europe.
2) Prague did not transition to a “raw capitalism.” Taxes are very high in Czech Republic in order to provide social services like most of Western Europe. High taxes does not equal raw capitalism. I understand the transition was not easy, but it wasn’t one towards unharnessed capitalism with no regulation.
3) Prague is not poor The standard of living in the United States is higher yes, but the cost of living is much lower here, as is crime compared to major US cities. It’s no different than saying that guys in the United States do porn because their poor. While most do not come from wealthy backgrounds, it’s not a “do porn or die” choice, just as it isn’t in America. This is especially not true in Prague because of the rather generous welfare state.
4)The Czech Republic is a modern capitalist / socialist Democracy that stresses individual rights, but also there is little effect from organized religion, which also helps to explain porn’s success here.
5) The whole gay for pay thing is a bit tricky. I would agree that Belami has definitely hired gay for pay, but if your doing gay porn consistently for like 5 years and still consider yourself straight, that one is hard to buy. It is definitely not true that ALL of the Belami models are Gay for Pay.
And if the first poster doesn’t think Prague is a gay porn capital then he is crazy. It’s like saying West Hollywood isn’t gay. I have randomly seen at least 4 belami actors and have only been here 5 months – Paul Valery at a bowling alley, Peters Twins at the mall, and Evan Cobb at a gay club.
Sorry for the rant, but Prague is a hot topic, and most people have no clue what they are talking about.
Don says
QMN: You have no clue about this. Don’t believe everything what you read.
As I know BelAmi is a Slovakian company (they’ve got plenty of Slovakian, Czech and Hungarian str8/bi/gay models), I know William Higgins only from the Czech Republic (they’ve got Czech and Slovakian models too).
I don’t know other studios or directors from the Czech Republic. So, I don’t think that Czech Republic is the main gay porn country in Europe…
Kurt says
Hasn’t Prague been a major porn producer since the early 1990s?
And why would William Higgins want this kind of attention?
Mel says
I think production costs are lower in Prague, not just porn but major studios have used Czeck Republic, Romania, Hungary, and Austria as sets of major motion pictures. As for the gay for pay, this maybe true however there gay for pay actors here in US. Belami has admited that they have not just used actors from Progue but from eastern European countries. Mr. Duroy has admited that models often only inncentive is the money and as commented about porn and poverty.
I have enjoyed the quality and the beauty men from central and eastern Europe. I also believe amazing men live all over the world from Brazil to Russia. I only thing i dont like about belami is the bad sex is not the best. The barebacking that they have started using in the last year is desperate attempt to compete against the Corbin Fisher and Sean Cody of web.
manonman says
As I read the piece, I wondered how it would have sounded had it been written by a gay man who better understood than a straight woman?
Having said that, it was a sad story, and Higgins was well written about.
I always hope some of the guys are gay and enjoying themselves.
Troy says
http://www.justinnikola.com Czech Republic’s contribution to gay porn….VERY hot
MuScleStud says
Higgins is like a Catholic priest: a dirty old man.
Billy Blue says
Is a shame that what William Higgins do now is pure trash, he used to do good movies a long time ago, very long time ago.
Hugh Merme says
@iaag, maybe you should think about writing a blog or contributing an article.
I’ve seen a couple of documentaries on the gay porn industry in Central/Eastern Europe. Both were really depressing, mostly heavily linking it with human trafficking and prostitution. I’d be interested to see what a local’s take on it is.
ricky says
who is the guy in the pic with the long hair???? he looks hot!
brian says
@Troy
That guy Justin Nikola is really hot. I want more from him.
Orestes says
Well done Renny and the other boys…
All of them are gays..those are homophobic and poor countries
Brazil…Poland, zchec republic..some parts of spain..are full of discret straight boys…or lots lots of bisexuals…camon..
Is much better for them to say the do it for the money or i´m bisexual…cathlic church has a big power there as well….
The companies goes there beacuse people are fucking poor..they do things nobody will do here in Spain..no health controls..just a shit salary…
And straight acting…gay man acts like a man…we are under media influence…they show GLTB like a cliche..all the same..is us who have to go against that…
Luca says
I have to agree with Orestes. I lived in Budapest for the last three years and know this area pretty well. Many of the guys I have met at the gym are in porno and they have been doing it for years! They tell me they feel that they can’t be as “out” as you can in Western Europe or the USA and so they say they are straight but to me admit no, they are gay. Re: Iaag, actually politically and historically Czechoslovakia (now the Czech republic) was considered eastern Europe. The German part of the Austro-Hunagrian Empire was western, the Hungarian part eastern. Yes, part of it is no further east than Germany but Eastern Europe was always considered anything east of Germany, especially after the war when it was under Soviet domiantion. (In the USA they call Ohio the midwest and on a map it appears to be in the east, not the middle of anywhere) This idea of “Europe” or the EU is basically new and if you look at the problems it may not last. Western and Eastern Europe have always had different histories and they developed quite separately.
Peter says
Hi,
Does anybody know the name and address of studio where gay porn is made. I want to visit one.