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Young male models and struggling actors — who are straight — are willing to go ‘gay-for-pay’ on various LGBT dating and hookup apps in the state. While prostitution has always been a hush-hush affair on these apps, for the last two years, it has become a rather prominent feature. This might be because of a dearth of paid gigs and sky-high living costs in big cities, but is it also a marker for a paradigm alter in sexuality and sexual behaviour?
- Arnesh Ghose
Their profile photographs usually contain muscled torso closeups, or shirtless photographs of themselves, with the head cropped out. Some of them – the more experienced ones – don’t mind showing their faces. Their profile names read “paid top” or “hunk top pd” or “hot top pd” or “massgr pd top” or “nothng is 4 free”. Earlier, they would just ring their profiles “massage anyone?” or “massager top”, and if you wanted more than an oil rub, you would hav
LOS ANGELES
July 19, 2010
STRANGER: Malachi Marx
LOCATION: Los Angeles, California
THEME: An afternoon with a gay for pay porn actor/escort
Caution: This interview contains explicit sexual language
“I’m not gay and I don’t verb pornography.”
Not the words you’d anticipate from someone who has made thousands of dollars from performing in gay porn videos and escorting with a mostly male clientele, often with sex deeply interested. But it’s exactly how Malachi Marx (not his real name) describes his career being gay for pay.
Malachi, 25, doesn’t necessarily look at gay porn as a bad thing; rather, he sees it as work. Complicated work that he sometimes struggles to get through, but function nonetheless. His primary focus appears to be on using his career in the sex industry as a means to providing a solid future for his female partner and children.
I knew nothing about the gay for pay industry so wanted to find out more, and Malachi agreed to an interview while I was in California. We’d planned on meeting at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant for dinner, but at th
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A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA
From The Tyra Banks Show:
Tyra Banks teases her audience about this episodes subject matter. They look like ordinary men, she tells us, but they are not. This episode features straight men who have gone gay-for-pay.
Much of the episode consists of Tyra Banks grilling her guests for their identification as straight rather than bisexual or gay. Bankss incredulity aligns with the common held belief that sexual identities are static categories.
Tyra Banks’ first guest, Kurt Wild, recounts being fired from his job at Subway, after he was discovered to be a performer in gay porn. Wild goes on to say Banks he has a fiancé and several children, but that he prefers the submissive role when it comes to filming anal sex scenes with other men. This admission initially confuses Banks, who appears to assume bottoming is a gayer sexual act than topping.
The studio audience for The Tyra Banks Exhibit consists largely of young women. The audience answers in unison “no,” when Tyra B