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Contents:
- 'LT IS A MONSTER': GAY PORN STAR QUS DTRY, JOS FIGHT AGAST PORN
- EX-FOX AND CBS ANCHOR JIM WALKER HAS NEW JOB AS A GAY PORN STAR
- GOG BAREBACK: TIME AND AGG A GAY-FOR-PAY PORN CAREER
- GAY ADULT FILM STAR MIKE DOZER GETS AT LEAST 8 YEARS ADD TO HIS PRISON SENTENCE – VIDEO
'LT IS A MONSTER': GAY PORN STAR QUS DTRY, JOS FIGHT AGAST PORN
Former Fox and CBS anchor has a new job as a gay porn star and says there's much ls prsure his current le of work Jim Walker left his job as a news anchor 2013, after 23 yearsHe opted for a change of reer, reventg himself as Dallas SteeleThe 44-year-old h back at trolls and said he don't plan to 'go quietly to the night'He has had implants his backsi, which he said were paid for by a client Published: 08:59 BST, 21 October 2016 | Updated: 17:01 BST, 21 October 2016. For more than two s Jim Walker was a clean-cut anchor who read the news on Fox, NBC and was nomated for two regnal Emmys and beme known for his lm and thorative livery of the after 23 years he left that all behd him to embark on a pletely different reer - reventg himself as Dallas Steele, a gay porn actor wh dozens of blue movi to his and now: For 23 years Walker was a news reporter and anchor, but when he left the dtry 2013 he revented himself as a gay porn actor The 44-year-old h back at trolls, sayg he 'feels bad for them', and vowed never to 'go quietly to the night'The 44-year-old said he turned his back on the news works bee of the immense prsure to get has had implants his backsi, which he said were paid for by an rt client, and says he has no regrets. The actor said an terview: 'I’m much more succsful every measure than I ever was before'He was a well-known news anchor and reporter for more than 20 years before makg the move to gay porn movi'It was a good thg gettg released om my ntract, ' he move has, however, ma him a target for ter told reporters he 'feels bad' for those who cricize him - and those who brand the change reer a 'midlife crisis' - statg: 'They’ve obvly cid at some pot that there are limatns about who you n be and what you n do once you h 40.
EX-FOX AND CBS ANCHOR JIM WALKER HAS NEW JOB AS A GAY PORN STAR
Footnote 1 He was also named as the send most searched for gay porn star Pornhub’s 2017 “Year Review” annual analytics report (beaten to the top spot by relative new-er William Seed, also a Men exclive)Footnote 2 and was the 2017 recipient of Str8UpGayPorn’s Bt Gay-4-Pay Performer award. Through reflectn, I arrive at the ncln that the time was right for an agg twk performer to be hened-up by a transn to bareback; siar transns of which have bee wispread across the gay porn landspe the years that have ticked over sce the 2015 Johnny Rapid Go Bareback event and our prent day (see Brennan, 2020a)—due to the wispread mastreamg of bareback mercial gay porn, which has been buoyed no small part by advancements HIV preventn technologi. Johnny Rapid’s bareback but served as the lnch event for Bromo; a se that shared a parent pany (MdGeek) wh Sean Cody and Men, the latter two s that 2018 held the distctn of beg the first and send most equented sourc of gay porn on the web, rpectively (Brennan, 2018).
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GOG BAREBACK: TIME AND AGG A GAY-FOR-PAY PORN CAREER
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GAY ADULT FILM STAR MIKE DOZER GETS AT LEAST 8 YEARS ADD TO HIS PRISON SENTENCE – VIDEO
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A perhaps more nuanced view is that barebackg as a practice and (as of 2021) a now domant ndn of gay pornography, as nsumed and experienced the 21th century, is a se of creasg negotiatn and tst. Weeks wr that sexual inti are “necsary fictns” (1995, 98) shaped by historil circumstanc: the spread of HIV wh Wtern gay and queer male muni of which is a se pot, and a circumstance om which we vised a “grammar for safer sex. ” (98) Whether we as dividuals and nstuted inti, and the gay porn dtry as producers of reprentatns of sexual practic, nform to or mise this grammar, seems, remas ntted terra.