The Texas-based gay adult studio ChaosMen recently featured Basil, a solo performer who has a confederate flag tattoo on his right arm (link NSFW). Since confederate flags are hate symbols flown by states that fought for the right to own black people as slaves, perhaps gay adult studios can just just choose performers who don’t have them on their body? How about that?
It almost makes you wonder whether ChaosMen chose Basil with the hope that his tattoo might generate some rage clicks, but it’s far more likely that the studio simply saw a muscular man willing to get nekkid on camera for a few bucks and said, “Let’s do it.”
While Basil might be a man of color (his race is unclear), the inclusion of the hate symbol in gay adult videos remains problematic because of the industry’s segregated nature. An informal 2015 study of five mainstream studios found that the rosters of Men.com, Sean Cody, BelAmi Online, Randy Blue and Helix Studios had performers of color at rates of only 0.8 to 10 percent (compared to the estimated 12.1 percent of black men in the general U.S. population).
Black performers are typically used in scenes far less often than white ones, and many showcase black men as submissive arrestees or hung thugs. Black performers are also siloed into low-production niche sites catering specifically to black men.
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Some people say that black performers are excluded “because that’s what fans want,” but that’s a poor excuse that does nothing to address the underlying problem. Film viewers can’t desire those they don’t see, and it’s entirely likely that they respond to white actors because that’s always who is pushed in front of them.
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In June, a scene from mainstream gay adult studio Sean Cody featured Zane, a muscular, furry, bisexual guy with a tattoo of confederate flag inside the state of Texas on his right shoulder. The studio initially photoshopped it out of his photos, blurred it out of his two video scenes. Two weeks later, they pulled the scene entirely.
While some people claim that the confederate flag is merely a symbol of southern “heritage, not hate,” it was re-popularized in the U.S. by white southerners who opposed racial integration.
Vince
I grew up with shows like the dukes of hazard. It had a chevy with a confederate flag displayed on it and I never once thought of it as racist. Just seems silly and over PC. The confederate flag is a symbol of Southern ancestry and heritage and that’s probably never going to change.
Rex Huskey
dude, the sissification of male queerdom (supported by sites like this one) has allowed the growth of stepford queens who strive to trash masculinity.
Aires the Ram
Bingo! Vince!
Cam
No, the confederate flag is the flag of a defeated enemy of America started by treasonous traitors. The fact that it was flown over state capitals and is still on a state flag or two is disgusting. Should we also put the flag of Imperial Japan or North Viet-Nam on our buildings? After all, it’s just about heritage right?
Catholicslutbox
LOL- They removed Zane’s videos? I did not know that. Hiring him was stupid in the first place.
Bo Sinnnnnn also has a lot of racist and gang tattoos all over his body. He covered two of them with large patches of black ink. -he still continues to work… regularly.
mydude
If you’re going to defend the Confederate flag, you can’t also decide what’s racist and what’s not.
The flag is a symbol of white supremacy and the designer of the flag said so; that’s the only reason why we see it flown, to appease the insecurities of down-market whites. The “Southern Heritage” argument was force-fed to those people who didn’t have anything by people who owned everything.
How else are you going to get whites to fight and die to protect a rich man’s slaves when they themselves didn’t own any???? Tell them it’s “protecting their heritage.”
mlandimmxxx
OK so your ancestors were racist. It doesn’t mean you have to be proud of them.
Hdtex
Proud of your racism is not a good look, but to be expected considering your trolling here.
Rex Huskey
don’t watch
Aires the Ram
Oh my! Common sense! Pragmatism! They’ll tear ya apart for that, then call you a “racist”. “Racist” has become their new word to call anyone who won’t march in lock-step to the leftist, Marxist agenda.
Cam
@Aires the Ram
Interesting one of the accounts that always defends anti_LGBTQ bigots and attacks black people is defending the Confederate flag.
You certainly are consistent.
Kangol2
@AirestheRam, you have no clue what “Marxist” means, as you demonstrate over and over. Also, defending racism is as bad as defending homophobia, but you are unable to grasp that.
Aires the Ram
@Cam: You said: “always defends anti_LGBTQ bigots and attacks black people”
@Kangoi2: You said: “Also, defending racism is as bad as defending homophobia”
Neither one of you have ever read any words from me defending these things or ‘attacking’ blacks.
Get your facts right before taking to the keyboard. But, I want to thank you for proving my general point, and that is, if someone doesn’t march in lock-step with your leftist political agenda, you turn around and call them “racist” in an attempt to shut them up, when it has nothing to do with racism at all.
DarkZephyr
Oh sweet Mother of God. I think sometimes intent is key here Queerty.
truthseeker
In 2019 the PC police are now offended by the people in porn
>”Hi {insert porn studio name}. Your latest scene where the guy is getting creampied and having his ass stretched wide open while getting spit on offended me. Not because of how graphic and depraved the sex was but because the guy getting plowed had a tattoo I did not like. All tattoos, piercings, haircuts, and other attributes of the models must be approved by the PC police or we won’t watch your videos for free on Pornhub anymore.”
Aires the Ram
Good one truth seeker!
Cam
And once again ,two screenames of the same account that regularly tries to attack black people is defending a racist symbol.
You can tell the Confederate flag is racist otherwise you two wouldn’t be defending it so rabidlly.
truthseeker
@Cam
You’re a broken record and say the same robot phrases over and over again to every person and on every topic
It’s amazing that THIS is considered offensive and will force porn companies to lose business but “bug chasing” / “gifting” porn videos get a blind eye
The guy with the tattoo isn’t even white but he’s being called a white supremacist LOL
Aires the Ram
@Cam: ….and I suppose you thought the Betsy Ross flag on the Nike shoes was “racist” also?
From your repetitive accusations of “racism”, thrown around willy-nilly at anybody or anything you disagree with, I think it would be good for you to pick up an American history book and read it from cover to cover.
Hdtex
@Aires the Ram @truthseeker
Is your psychiatrist aware of all your multiple personalities?
Wicked Dickie
I only watch gay porn where it’s one white guy getting railroaded by 3 or more black guys. But that’s just me.
notasjw
Figures!
Gay Veteran
I don’t want to see any racist tattoos in my porn. I don’t want to see any racist models in my porn. I don’t want to watch any porn produced by racist studios. That literally takes out the majority of the porn industry. I’ll stick to TimTales and certain Onlyfan/JustForFans models.
Also, can we talk about how ugly this guy is… being racist will have you aging like powdered milk.
Cam
You can tell that Republicans and the right wing absolutely see the Confederate Flag as a symbol of white supremacy and racism.
If they didn’t they wouldn’t bother defending it because they wouldn’t give a crap about it.
notasjw
I think your hole must quiver whenever a story like this comes up that involves “racism”! Sad.
Cam
@notasjw
Translation: The right wing troll account that always defends anti-LGBTQ bigots and attacks black people, is trying to deflect the topic because they can’t argue against my statement.
Aires the Ram
@Cam: There you go again, ‘racism-racism-racism-racist-racist-racist’ to anyone/anything you disagree with. It’s getting old, what happened, did ‘Russia-Russia-Russia’ not work out very well for your side???
Rex Huskey
another fool
justgeo
Just cuz white privilege had us all blind is no reason to justify the further use of the hate symbols go get em remover and your damn car repainted.
Kangol2
Whether it appeared on The Dukes of Hazard or any other TV show in the 1970s and 80s, the Confederate flag is a symbol of a treasonous secessionist power that was founded to uphold slavery and white supremacy, as its president, Jefferson Davis, and VP, Alexander Stephens, repeatedly made clear.
Look it up. They were clear enough. Stephens’ infamous “Cornerstone Speech” in Georgia lays it all out. It is no more a “symbol” of “Southern heritage,” than the veneration of Robert E. Lee, the arch-traitor general, since numerous Southerners were against joining the treasonous Confederacy, millions of Southerners were African American, and the myth of the “Lost Cause” arose only after the Union military had crushed the Confederate slave power.
As to people having that flag as a tattoo, that’s their right to disfigure and degrade themselves, whatever their race. If a studio aims to cater to all people, they should avoid talent with extremely offensive tattoos, whether it be Confederate flags or KKK hoods and figures. But hey, if it’s anything goes, then hire people with ISIS tattoos, or Al Qaeda tattoos, or whatever, and let’s see how sanguine and indifferent people like Aires the Ram are.
rodzilla
“… found that the rosters of Men.com, Sean Cody, BelAmi Online, Randy Blue and Helix Studios had performers of color at rates of only 0.8 to 10 percent…” That’s a considerable discrepancy (15x!) between lowest & highest. or a misprint.
ladron
This is so stupid. The number of racist, sexist, xenophobic, confederate, and Republican porn stars is quite high (Colby Keller voted for Trump, Dennis from SC is a Republican, Sergeant Miles, and so on). There’s even a white dude sporting W.A.R. tatts on his hands while pounding black men hard … What’s more disturbing: me watching and enjoying or the black man allowing himself to be used and abused by a white racist?
No one is watching gay porn for the stars’ political views. Hello, there is race play out there. Kinda of hard to like leather loving without seeing its Nazi roots.
If you’re troubled by a porn performer’s personal views, then you’re in the wrong business. If you don’t want to watch a porn performer with “ist” views, then stop watching porn.
Cam
A whole bunch of words to try to defend racists.
Aires the Ram
@ladron: You’re correct. I wanted to mention, that if someone watches porn, and the guys don’t have any tatts and you don’t know who he supports, then do these people ‘assume’ his views are just exactly like theirs? You see the folly in that! It’s just like perhaps ordering a pizza from a local mom & pop pizza parlor, you like their pizza, they treat you well, so all is well, right? BUT, how does anyone know what Mom & Pops political views are? You don’t!! But they most definitely have them, it’s just that you don’t know what they are. There’s a good and long-standing reason why when you go into the voting booth, your votes are private, and there’s great effort that goes into making sure nobody else in the room sees who you voted for. You vote, privately, you go home, turn on the television that night or the next morning, and you learn who got the most votes, just like it was designed to be, by our very wise Forefathers.
felixthegato
Saddest part of all this? the man is wearing blue colored contacts… inferiority complex much?
dwes09
There is certainly the possibility that he got that tattoo years ago, regrets it but cannot afford to have it removed. There was a contractor who worked for a landscape client of mine who was a white gang member in his youth. Ridiculously good looking and built, but regardless of the weather he wore a turtleneck and long sleeves because of white supremacist tattoos that he had not yet had removed. He said it would be tens of thousands of dollars to get them removed He had no issues with gay people or people of color, as he had repudiated all that.
Don’t judge based on assumptions.
Aires the Ram
Exactly, thank you for posting that.
chi eg
To those defending the confederate flag, there is no point in being civil to you idiots. You lost the war over 100 years ago and you tired queens are still crying and struggling for relevance.
The PC police IS winning and I am thrilled.
truthseeker
@chi eg
Looks like the grammar police are not winning either
Ronbo
Please readers, stop using the term “PC” as an attack against civil and respectful communications. It’s a tell (tale?) that the user is inherently disrespectful and intends to insult others – regardless to the fires that they light… mental arsonists.
When someone talks about “PC police”; they are ‘criminals’ who want others to see that they are being victimized for expressing their bigotry. Too often they are bullies who cry when the tables are turned.
Aires the Ram
So you people are now going to stop throwing the term ‘racist’ & ‘racism’ at each and every thing and each and every person you disagree with, right?………waiting…………
DavidIntl
This article seems to lose the plot in general, but most critically reflects, once again, a really odd US-centric perspective. Why criticise BelAmi for not reflecting in its productions the US’ percentage of 12% African Americans? It is a Slovakian company – and in Slovakia there are very few Africans.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Geeeeze Queerty give the “racism” card a break!!
Studios put performers in scenes because that’s what their customers want to see. There are studios with predominantly Black performers. Are you going to call them out as “racist” for the lack of white performers?
As to the studios the should realize they don’t regular employ Mensa members and should always have a tube of cover up on set…..
Terrycloth
I’m more tired of companies like Falcon who used the same 8 -9 people over and over. I’m also getting tired of the newest fad euro twins.i personally do not care for tattoos or uncut guys..that’s just me .there are hundreds online pornsites to choose from in every sexual genre you can think of i buy born on ocassion if I can preview some of it first