Gay For Pay is definitely one of the most debated topics in gay porn. You don’t have to go far, you can read about it here in the comment section of this blog any given day.
Porn star Ricky Larkin is now working behind the scenes at ROCK CANDY FILMS and I’m still waiting to see his bottoming debut. In case you missed it, here’s my exclusive photo set of Ricky’s bottoming debut, Rick Larking gets fucked by Dylan Roberts.
Ricky recently published an article The Problem with ‘Gay for Pay’ where he discusses this infamous topic.
Fans and bloggers often seem personally betrayed when they learn that a popular gay porn star is dating a woman off-camera. Their logic tells them that a man can’t possibly be sexually attracted to his own gender if he’s dating the opposite sex “in real life.” Such narrow-minded “thinking” fails to recognize the many variations of sexual attraction and expression.
Despite how far we’ve come in the fight for sexual equality, we’ve yet to acknowledge that there are many shades of lust, and many degrees of sexual attraction that can fluctuate throughout our lives.
What about the performer who identifies as “gay” but isn’t the least bit attracted to (or is even completely turned off by) his scene partner? He goes through the motions anyway and collects his check, never experiencing a second of pleasure during the scene. Is he a more authentic performer than the man who truly enjoys having sex with his male costar but is dating a woman in real life?
What about the big, muscular, hairy guy who’s hired to play an aggressive, dominant top, even though he’s a submissive bottom in real life? If he “fakes” his way through the scene, should he be crucified on blogs for “cheating the gay porn audience” and “stealing their money”?
+ Read: The Problem with ‘Gay for Pay’ — by Ricky Larkin
+ Exclusive: Ricky Larkin Gets Fucked By Dylan Roberts
NS says
The problem is that often G4P performers do not just date women, but they are selfish douchebags who produce poor quality porn.
They can barely stay hard unless they take viagra, they will not kiss or rim their partners. The scene is so obviously about them finishing it as quick as possible.
I can count on my hand the number of G4P who expressed some sort of passion and made it seem like they were really horny about a GUY.
Imagine if straight porn had been flooded by gay men who just wanted bugger paychecks, but could not properly have sex with women. They would not kiss them, would not eat them out, and would not even be invested in giving pleasure.
That’s what has happened to gay porn. A bunch of greedy straight men seeking bigger paychecks have ruined the quality of gay porn.
Straight men who will do the most horrible job at bottoming, can’t even take a dick, and people don’t want to be paying 25-40 bucks a month to support porn producers only to gamble whether the next scene will be a flop.
Just look at Rocco Reed. He couldn’t get hard while fucked, he closed his legs to allow less access to the dick going in him, he humped his back and just in general looked like someone who did not get s bit of pleasure from what he did.
So, fuck that shit and start giving the jobs to men who want to be with men. The guys in straight porn are not in it because they make mad money — most don’t and it shows. They’re in straight porn because they enjoy fucking hot women and getting a bit of cash on the side.
As for men who date women while doing gay porn, it’s fine if you’re bisexual. But don’t go telling gay men that when most bisexuals fuck men but end up marrying women, it’s because it’s far more socially convenient to be with a woman than with a man.
I’m pretty sure when Larkin complained that he had been dissed by his family and friends for doing gay porn, he would have suffered a lot less if he had done straight porn instead. And don’t give me that crap as if his family wouldn’t prefer that he be going out with women.
Woohooboy says
As I stated previously, I personally don’t have an issue with G4P performers. However YOU MUST show passion and enthasium in your work, otherwise get the hell out of here.
If you’re a performer who identifies as being straight in your personal life so be it. But if you’re going through the motions in a scene just waiting for a paycheck or have a very limited amount of things you are willing to do then as a consumer (not to mention as a gay man) you are wasting my time and money.
This is porn where the big boys play. Either go hard (with passion) or go home because to quote the legendary Mistress Sweet Brown:
“Ain’t nobody got time for that!”
Krunk says
If you suck at having gay sex on screen and need drugs or straight porn to stay hard and off screen feel the need to go on and on about how straight you are then yes I have a problem with you being in gay porn and won’t pay good money to watch you grin and bear it for cash.
ASDF says
Not to metion that most G4P actors say in interviews they are not attracted to men, and are doing it just for the money. And they are repeating it over and over and over. I just can’t understand why are they getting so much publicity. I don’t need to read in every interview their lame excuses why are they fucking a guy and how they are really into women. If you’re doing gay porn please shut up, it’s painful enough just to watch your scenes. They just need to prove to those straight people how they are not gay. But i personally find most G4P actors liars, and i think they are at least bi but they don’t want to admit it to themselves and especially not to the world. Johnny Rapid straight hahahahahaha, please. And getting hard while getting fucked, that’s not only the problem for G4P actors, i saw many gay actors not getting hard while getting fucked. It also happens to me and i’m gay.
Haha, i wanted to do porn, but decided it wasn’t for me, because i could’t pick my own partners. And i sure wouldn’t fuck with someone i’m not attracted to. 😛
andrew says
Some of my favorite porn stars, like Brandon and Jess of SC, Kris Evans and Dario Dolce of Bel Ami and Connor and Dawson of CF and many others, are identified as gay4pay. I have no idea where exactly they fall on the Kinsey scale. I do know they are physically beautiful guys who make some really beautiful gay porn. The truth be told sexual attraction often doesn’t fit into three distinct categories of Gay-Bi-Straight. Real life is often more complex than that. I hope that whomever a gay porn actor is sleeping with in his private life is fulfilling for him. What I want is for his gay porn performances to fulfill my gay porn needs and fantasies.
andrew says
Oh man. In my haste to comment on that tired debate about Gay4pay, I totally missed that the photo is of one of my all time favorite gay porn stars, the beautiful Duncan Black, getting fucked by Ricky Larkin. Inexcusable.
Goodman says
Why does everyone feel the need to police reasonable, personal preferences? It’s pretty much the same with not wanting to see BBCs “charge” willing bottoms or the guys attached to BBCs in general.
Just a preference.
jack says
Yeah what ricky fails to see is that I have never seen a gay man fail a doing a great scene even a mediocre one with another gay man whether they are top and are bottoming or they don’t like their scene partner or vice versa there is a reason why G4p models were label that title because they wanted to hide behind it and it shows in theirs scenes. Plain and simple. Plus the majority of gay on gay action that fails is so small compared to g4p action. That’s why only a very few succeed in that department who “claim” they are straight like dylan roberts or marcus mojo and others
Alex says
Wall of text!!!!!!!!!
itsme says
He can take his rational and go fuck himself. As a gay man I want to see GAY men with other GAY men. the moment i know guy is gay for pay and/or bi all atraction is gone. That’s the main reason the gay porn industry is crap. Too many bi men. Amateur on xtube is ten times better.
nikko says
The problem with G4P is…G4P!!! You should NOT be having sex with someone you are not attracted to. Period.
Kev says
I just don’t like the thought of gay-for-pay guys. It’s alot more attractive and arousing knowing that the guys we are watching are really into other guys outside of porn.
EdWoody says
If they can do the job and get me off, I don’t give a shit what they do off screen as long as they’re not murdering anyone.
loveblind says
He has a point.
FieldMedic says
I agree with many of the points raised in these comments. My pet peeve is with bottoming. Bottoming, for most people, is an essential part of gay sex. You can suck dick all you want but it’s the connectedness of penetration and its’ associated pleasure that makes bottoming a necessity when depicting gay sex. So as a performer in the Gay Adult Film Industry it is incumbent upon them to as accurately portray gay sex as possible, even within the confines of the fantasy that the Porn Industry produces. A G4Per who then refuses to bottom, is essentially not portraying gay sex, they are portraying some bastardized version of it that is way beyond even a fantasy, since a fantasy must have some roots in reality for someone to suspend disbelief and go along with it. Now, you might say that there are men in real life who are “top-only,” and I agree that there are, but they do not make up the majority of men who have gay sex, we’d need data for it, but I suspect that most men are actually versatile. In conclusion, while these G4P’ers who coast by on their looks, bodies, and dicks to make cash for performing bad scenes is a problem, it’s the unwillingness to fully participate in gay sex that does the most damage and makes something that is so beautiful into something that is cheap, tawdry, and ultimately unfulfilling.
andrew says
To each his own. Enjoy what you enjoy and let others enjoy what they enjoy.
Tray says
There isn’t anything that I hate more in this world than lairs and pretenders. FOR THE 1 BILLIONTH TIME…….NO 100% STRAIGHT GUY WILL EVER CONSIDER DOING GAY PORN UNLESS HE CONSCIOUSLY OR SUBCONSCIOUSLY IS ATTRACTED TO GUYS…..PERIOD. It pisses me off when so called G4P models constantly use money as their motivating factor to do gay porn, like come on guys, really!!! Besides what is the pay difference between straight and gay models? If anyone has the stats kindly share it please. I will only believe you are truly G4P if gay models are paid a million bucks per scene and straight models earn 500 bucks. But guys, seriously this G4P thing is really getting old. I don’t have a problem with anyone saying they are bi, however, they are more straight than gay and so date girls in their private lives, but do gay porn as a profession, that totally makes sense. But stop lying to yourself and everybody else that you are straight when you go on camera and do stuff that even some 100% gay guys wouldn’t do………..arghhhh (me banging my head on my desk)
Goodman says
@andrew I agree, so many judgmental guys here. Some of us just don’t wanna see feminine guys in porn. Others don’t wanna see black guys in porn therefore no poz porn.
We all have a right to our tastes……
baz says
Whoa, whoa whoa, what? Goodman, are you saying that black guys in porn = poz porn?
chuck says
Ricky, You are a super handsome guy and seem like a nice person. I was a fan, but I no longer have the desire to watch your work. I hope the porn industry understands that this is one reason why most people are switching to amateur homemade porn.
Simon says
Most gay guys are judgemental. I know that because I’m one of them. For me it is all about performance. I don’t care if a model is straight, gay, bi, confused or somewhere in between. As long as he is performing convincingly I can enjoy a scene although I have to admit that all the talk about being straight and fucking women can be off putting.
pornobb says
Porn stars are actors. They don’t have to be gay to play a gay scene.
John says
Its…porn its not real life guys!!
You know many men in your life that while they fucked their dick is in full erction all the time?
I dont think so!!
All the performers(TOP,BTMS,GAY,GAY4PAY)take viagra in huge amounts(over 100-150 mg)
Gay porn and gay sex in general is schizophrenic,we like and demant masculinity but the same time in our souls we are not masculars at all!
But this is a huge topic!
I think g4p perfomers are essential in gay porn, simply because, for start there are not many good clear gay tops outhere!Almost all the gay perfomers are trully btms in they private life.
And second deep inside us we always admire and want the ”str8man” because in our eyes is more…. man than we are!!
Goodman says
@baz -Basically.
And I don’t care to see it, doesn’t make me racist.
baz says
@Goodman – So you make a broad sweeping generalization that that all black porn is poz porn and then go on to say you’re not racist for saying that?
I’d say that makes you about as racist as Marc Dylan.
Joe says
Honestly Who cares if the guys performing are gay, str8, bi, into animals or whatever…only thing I won’t accept is kids..Don’t touch them.
Porn is Porn. The only thing I ask of them is being in very good shape, clean, and giving the best they’ve got in front of the camera. Personal preferences in their personal lives belongs to them.
Paul says
@goodman You really seem desperate to have someone validate your ridiculous ideas. If you think having black men in porn is the same as poz porn, then yes you are racist. And you’re in idiot as well.
manu says
Ricky Larkin is awesome and all you bitches can suck a bag of dicks :p
Goodman says
@baz @Paul
If I’m racist then why is everyone (silently) agreeing with me and not you two?
It’s NOT racist to have a personal preference and perfect health.
baz says
@Goodman, maybe because this post is about Ricky Larkin and his gay for pay justifications.
I don’t care for bareback porn (which is why I no longer have any interest in SC or CF), but you are stating that black men in porn equals poz porn. And your basis for that ridiculously far-fetched assumption is based solely on the race of the people in it. There are plenty of safe sex sites for black porn, yet you want to state your bigoted views as fact.
Does TIM/RFC have all black performers? No? Then your view is racist. Regardless of how many people may speak up about it or not. Period.
steve says
All I see when I read these comments is ‘I think”, “I feel” I, I , I. Nobody is the last word on porn. There is a multitude of porn out there for everyone and nobody is forcing you to watch any of it. It is a voluntary action. If you do not like something, do not watch it. I am not fan of Game of Thrones, but I do fight to have it taken off the air, I just do not watch it. I miss the days of magazines and videos where you did not have to hear all this crap and people’s opinions were not important enough to be recorded. You spoke with money, and that’s it. The one thing I do see a lot of is that we are are own worst enemies.
Goodman says
Baz and Paul are black so that’s why they are so butthurt here, the silent majority has spoken.
manu says
Goodman the slient majority does not engage because they do not want to feed the troll, which is what you clearly are.
baz says
@Goodman (an oxymoron if ever I saw one) – And yet you won’t even defend your own bigoted stance. You statement is racist, regardless of how you attempt to justify it.
So feel free to keep deluding yourself that you aren’t a bigot. Your comments on here that prove otherwise are available for anyone with two brain cells to rub together to read for themselves.
Matias says
Interesting and good points.
Paul says
@goodman There is no silent majority. The reason more people aren’t commenting is because they were smart enough not to feed the troll.
And personal preference has nothing to do with it. This isn’t about whether or not you’re attracted to black guys. It’s about you thinking the black men in porn are all HIV+. I hate to break it to you, but you are a racist idiot.
SuperDuper says
Goodman is what’s wrong with the world and what’s even more sad about it is thatjyou’re gay. Lol There are a ton of white guys who do poz porn but I’m sure he watches it. Your close minded personal preference has nothing to do with that ridiculous statement you made. Such a dumbass.
Joe says
I get a chuckle out of the idea that we want, ne we demand, to have gay politicians, gay CEOs, gay clergy, blah, blah, blah. But when it comes to gay porn, they have to hire “straight” guys. Why, because there aren’t enough gay guys to play gay guys?
Why do the studios and performers have this incessant need to tell us they’re straight and have female partners? Are we supposed to feel validated because a straight guy lowers himself to have gay sex?
To me, G4P performers are like the paid spokespeople you see hyping stuff on TV that won’t touch the product they’re advertising off camera, and are actually quite condescending about it.
Orlando says
I think its funny awww porn straight /bi men who only date women .lmao
Who me? says
I get so tired of trying to explain why I don’t like g4p. They just don’t get it. They don’t get that it perpetuates the perception that gay men are not good enough or sexy enough to be our fantasy on film. It’s as if they think I should be HAPPY that str8 guys are willing to have gay sex for my pleasure, when the reality is they do it strictly for money. In addition so many turn and shit on us. Make homophobic statements, deride and ridicule us while taking our money.
As for the “hot” sex on camera, it’s filmed in short clips, edited into seconds, spliced together. The actors are told what to say, how to react etc. So they can truly hate what they do, just act for a few seconds at a time as if they love it. There’s more………….but I’ll leave it at that.
andrew says
I will keep my subscriptions to SC, CF and Bel Ami and continue to enjoy watching beautiful guys of whatever sexual orientation have hot guy on guy sex.
fran says
gay4 pay is shit, they are gay or bi, I don´t believe that they are str8. I´m gay top in my private life, never I allowed someone fuck me, I don´t undestand how a str8 guy gets fucked for money, it´s a big lie
andrew says
@fran: “never I allowed someone fuck me” Why not?
Nobweld says
Some of the guys I find hot are gay, some are straight. I just don’t care about the g4p issue, it’s so irrelevant to why I watch porn.
I’m well aware that there is very clever editing making some sex seem a lot hotter than it actually is. Considering I’m wanking over it, rather than watching it as if it’s the latest oscar winning film, I don’t care if that’s what they do.
Nobweld says
@andrew – because he doesn’t want a penis up his bum……….some people just don’t know what they are missing 😉
TJ says
So, a G4P actor thinks gay people are shallow or ignorant because they want to enjoy real, genuine gay guys fucking and enjoying the sex, instead of someone who isn’t enjoying it and purely in it for the money.
Is he fucking serious?
fran says
andrew: perhaps as a friend told me that maybe I was not gay men just like me fuck or I´m more str8 than the guys g4p hehehehhe.
Guest says
I think he’s missing the point. Yes secuality is son a continuum and many people are bi to one extent or another. I have people have a problem with people claiming their straight as if saying they are gay or bisexual is wrong. Everyone can understand having sexual attraction for both. NO straight friend of mine would have intercourse with a man. He might get a blow job but just be honest. Don’t pretend to be what you’re not. And if you’re having sex with men on a regular basis, don’t claim to be 100% straight.
gnormie says
I’m more attracted to G4P men than actual gay men.
fer says
Geez pals! Take a breath. Anyone is free to have sex with another adult, no matter woman or man, attraction or not. Haven’t u ever sleep with a guy u don’t like? I have, even with a gal. It’s kinda the same, and no money attached LOL.
@ Goodman. Man you’re very passe. I get you don’t see yourself fucking a black dude, as I don’t find attractive a extremely muscled man as qell, coz the beauty is on the eye of the beholder, but associating a race with being poz? I think you should join a KKK branch and get slayed for being gay or go to a mental practice coz you desperately need help.
socali says
He is dating a women off cam?
charlie_jack says
I’ve got no issue with someone who self identifies as straight fucking another man’s arse – a hole is a hole and if they enjoy it go for it. What I do take issue with is the guys who are ‘no offence guys but I dont fancy you Im just doing this for the money’, No you aren’t. Even if the money was so good you couldnt do it if it didnt turn you on a bit. just be honest and say I love women but I also reall like to get my cock sucked deep by a man and boy do I lvoe to fuck arse
Vasek Pavel says
I agree !! The obvious queens are a turnoff, with all their peculiarities. Lots of these g4 pay guys do it well. All this bitching is ridiculous , starting with fatPam from NS. (She thinks gay guys want her, er, it). If the guy gets hard and gets me off, that’s all. Is Marcus Mojo g4p? Then they all sb g4p. If you suck dick and call urself st8, ur living in Egypt (denile) and who cares… Keep sucking 4 me.
alex says
Don’t care how a guy identifies himself — as long as he is good in his performance — and is someone I find attractive. I can’t wait to see Ricky plowed!
David says
Yeah I really don’t need to be lectured on G4P from a straight guy. I’m sorry but I’ve known hundreds of gay guys in my life and not one of them identifies as gay and dates a woman still.
Goodman says
So wanting to be healthy and enjoy sex without any fear is racist now. Wow…….
Any of you vocal minorities could stand in for Hilter any day, I speak for the majority.
As for the majority of us gay men, we have to cut out poz guys because we love perfect health and freedom. Statistics and genetics don’t lie.
SuperDuper says
Goodman.
Go take your fearless ass and fuck these healthy white guys without a condom. Don’t ask what their status is. Just go off of that ridiculous bs you’re spouting about genetics and see where your dumbass ends up. You really are stupid. I feel bad for any guy that ends up with you. Lol
David says
@Goodman You are a nut job. Perfect health? Please. Do you drink alcohol? Do you smoke? Do you ever do recreational drugs? Do you drink foods that are only organic? Do you ever eat processed food? Do you eat foods with processed sugar? Your health is far from perfect and most of the things I just listed are killing far more people in this country than gay men living HIV+ on medication which suppresses HIV to UNDETECTABLE levels.
David Estrada says
I totally agree with you.
With everything, but NOT what you say of ROCCO REED. I loved and I excited much!!!
To me, in particular, I love Rocco and I think it does its job well. Like AIDEN (Corbin Fisher), KURT WILDE and MARCUS MOJO.
bucko0710 says
@NS totally disagree with you on many points esp. on Rocco Reed. First lets be clear that there are many gay performers who deliver lackluster performances – do they get a pass simply for being gay? Whereas a G4P performer who sizzles is condemned for being not gay? This is about acting and I’d much rather watch guys deliver the goods then those who preen and look disinterested (there are many gay models that suffer from this attitude as well).
As for Rocco, he does get hard eventually – he’s a grower… This has nothing to do with gay vs straights. Again there are many gay guys that don’t get hard while being fucked. As well Rocco’s got a certain charming innocence about him that I’d much rather watch than to see some attitudey gay guy preen.
Enhancements for performances are not limited to G4P guys as many here may like to believe – it runs across the spectrum.
Get over this G4P vitriol folks, this is porn – its a fantasy and these are actors and let’s not discriminate based on their sexuality. if they are douchebags then fine – call them out on it, as there are many gay douchebags out there as well. Let’s embrace diversity with hot looking and acting guys regardless of their sexuality – and let’s not regress…