Sexual assault and financial desperation were the catalysts that jumpstarted Aaron Crowley’s career in the porn industry. While in porn, he believed lies about his value as a person, false stereotypes about his sexuality as a gay man, and he was closed off to the possibility of experiencing real love for himself. The men listed here are known to have appeared in a gay porn film; however, this does not necessarily mean they are gay—see gay-for-pay. Many of these men have also appeared in other forms of pornography, such as pornographic magazines. They may have appeared in other genres of pornography, including bisexual and heterosexual porn. In mainstream media, porn has a glamorized reputation as a tool of empowerment, sexual liberation, and self-discovery. However, when you take a moment to look behind the curtain and hear the real experiences of porn performers, you get a very different picture—one of abuse, manipulation, drug addiction, and physical and mental trauma. Aaron Crowley: To gay people were being told by porn, still men are aggressors against us and this is normal and this is what we should submit to, this is our sexuality.

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O'Hara, Scott (1999). Rarely pure and never simple: selected essays of Scott O'Hara. [1]: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7890-0573-1. {{ cite book}}: External link in |location= ( help) CS1 maint: location ( link) The list includes male actors in gay pornographic films who may be notable for their gay pornography and those who may be notable for other reasons or both. The listing is alphabetic by first name. Some performers have many pseudonyms and stage names (indicated here by a.k.a.). Multiple pseudonyms are utilized for a variety of reasons including legal constraints, the appearance of having more actors working at a studio, an actor's wishing to disguise how many films he is working on or that he is doing work for another studio, etc. Garrett Jonsson: That’s tough. Did, um, did your first exposure to pornography lead to you seeking out porn later in life?Aaron Crowley: Right. And often, no matter if you’re straight and you’re learning, if you’re gay, you’re learning about it. We’re being taught. Those who grew up learning about sex from porn, we’re being taught that sex is violent and aggressive. François Sagat – 2007 Grabby Awards winner; 2007 GayVN Awards winner, "Performer of the year". A French male pornographic actor with cult status and equally famous in mainstream media, best known for his rugged looks and scalp tattoo. A successful model and actor, he appeared in Saw VI and lead roles in L.A. Zombie and Homme au bain. Famous as a director of his own Incubus adult film series. [39] [35] Aaron Crowley: Um, there’s a little bit of that. Like I said, it was my first encounter with sex. So it, it became my sex education. I didn’t necessarily go searching for it and looking for it to learn about sex like that wasn’t really in my mind, but it was how I had learned about sex. December RAD Boy Focus: Andy Kirra". RAD. December 1, 2005. Archived from the original on January 7, 2010 . Retrieved February 22, 2010.

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Aaron Crowley: I mean, that’s the nature of it. I mean, we wouldn’t, I mean, we’re not gonna say those words, right? Like that’s not good for the PR, but that’s essentially what it is. I mean, again, it’s an employer asking for sexual favor. And sexual acts from employees. Yeah. That in any other situation is sexual assault. We want these conversations to be educational, uplifting, and hopeful. As we sit down with experts, influencers, activists, and people with personal accounts, we cover a wide variety of topics that may be triggering to some, you can refer to the episode notes for a specific trigger warning- listener discretion is advised. Aaron Crowley: Yeah, no, like I said, I, I didn’t, um, speak to anyone about it. I, I didn’t even have the words for myself. And you know, even he said it, this is “If you wanna be a part of this industry, this is a part of it.” He right there was saying, without saying, you know, he right there was saying sexual assault is a part of this industry. XRCO Announces 2008 Award Winners". Archived from the original on May 2, 2008 . Retrieved May 1, 2008.Aaron Crowley: Actually the main and biggest way that I coped with that sexual assault was, um, hyper sexuality. Um, you know, cuz like I said, I was in a safe space. I was processing it in my mind with all this shame and victim blaming and you know, I dove deep into, you know, gay hookup culture and you know, I, I became very hypersexual and you know, I’ve since learned that that’s actually a very common trauma response to sexual assault and rape is hypersexuality because it’s, we’re subconsciously trying to regain control. Aaron Crowley: Right? Yeah. Um, let me try to give you the spark notes version. So I first heard the word gay from my cousins who were using it and talking about it in a very homophobic way. I was probably about eight. Um, and so whenever it was defined to me what gay meant I realized, “Oh, I might be that.”, like, that’s what first went in my head. And then I realized the tone of how it was being used. And I was like, oh, and it’s a bad thing.