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Contents:

• IN CZECH REPUBLIC, GAY PORN PAYS THE BILLS
• SPECIAL REPORT: GAY-4-PAY PRAGUE
• EROTICIZG DPERATN: POVERTY GAY-FOR-PAY PORN
• MALE MOLS DCRIBE HORRORS|OF A GAY MEDERRANEAN CISE
• THE 10 BEST CZECH REPUBLIC GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CZECH REPUBLIC
• THE GAY SI OF PRAGUE
• BEEFY CZECH GUY GO GAY FOR PAY CZECH HUNTER #301

IN CZECH REPUBLIC, GAY PORN PAYS THE BILLS

End they go home to their wiv and male adult performers who go "gay for pay, " a term ed to scribe gay porn which two (or more) otherwise straight dus have sex on mera, the above scenar is jt another day at the Male Porn Stars Are Straight — But They Have Sex Wh Men for a LivgSource: YouTubeThis week, MTV is airg an episo of Te Life explorg the liv of two such performers, and their stggl to balance the seemgly nflictg mands of their profsnal and personal liv. "Ben is a married fay man who recently started performg gay sex films to support his kids...

They're risg stars the gay porn dtry, but will the prsur of every day life force them to rensir their lucrative reers?

"Though the ble special is jt g out now, gay-for-pay porn is a fairly well-tablished phenomenon. In straight porn, the pay for men is notorly lower than the pay for women, so "gay porn [actors] general make a lot more than straight porn, " Damian McKnight, the CEO and producer of the succsful gay-for-pay se Broke Straight Boys, told the Daily Dot last year. The women get more exposure and rpect the dtry, and for gay porn 's the male stars.

SPECIAL REPORT: GAY-4-PAY PRAGUE

In a book that me out earlier this year, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, thor Jane Ward argued that male sexualy is a lot more fluid than most of are willg to acknowledge. " she prevly told said, adult entertament publicist Mike Stabile told Mic that he believ the sexualy of a gay-for-pay porn star is likely to be a b more flexible than your average joe.

"They seemed to have more of a fluid sexualy, or were jt extremely sexual, even if they intified as straight their private liv, " he said of the gay-for-pay actors he's worked wh the past.

EROTICIZG DPERATN: POVERTY GAY-FOR-PAY PORN

"Of urse, there are some who are jt bee of the money, guys who sist on havg loud cellphone nversatns wh their girliends while on-set, or beg homophobic. ), another qutn remas: Why the hell are gay guys so drawn to porn featurg straight (or "straight") dus the first place?

MALE MOLS DCRIBE HORRORS|OF A GAY MEDERRANEAN CISE

That's a ltle more plited, as some believe that gay men's tenncy to fetishize straight men engagg gay sex stems om a ep-rooted place of self-loathg or shame. "Bee of ternalized homophobia (which typilly looms large before and durg the early g-out procs), they're more often lookg for men who act mascule, " thor Joe Kort wrote 2013 for the Huffgton Post.

"Gay guys are attracted to hot guys, no matter of their orientatn, " he wrote 2012. "Also, many gay guys thk straight guys are even hotter bee they're so naturally butch and hard to get.

"Regardls of why sells, though, participatg gay-for-pay porn isn't always a walk the park. For stance, when gay-for-pay porn star Chris Tyler was asked by the Village Voice what the harst part of his job was, he answered:"Takg a 10-ch-pl dick.

THE 10 BEST CZECH REPUBLIC GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CZECH REPUBLIC

"Talk about workg hard for the out the full preview for MTV's Te Life: I'm a Gay for Pay Porn Star below:Source: YouTube. He believ real money n only be ma the luxur (or mid-level) gay clubs for which Prague is rather notor. Those nng gay enterpris bet on that; the rooms are always immediately adjacent to the clubs.

THE GAY SI OF PRAGUE

Bis the 1997 film “Mandragora” by the Polish director Wiktor Grocki, Valšík’s book is one of only a very few works om this untry about the issue of male -often labeled homosexual – prostutn. “It’s not homosexual prostutn bee the vast majory of boys who make a livg wh their bodi on the streets or somewhere else are not homosexually oriented, ” explas Lászlo Sümegh, who started distributg clean jectn needl and ndoms to young homels boys the center of the Czech pal 1995. He was also a “streetwalker”, first at the ma tra statn, and then Prague’s gay clubs.

Boys who make money gay clubs, or the worst-se scenar at the tra statn (like Honza, Milly and Roman) are nsired the lowt layer. Servic are offered through ordary discsn fora, chat rooms, erotic datg servic and gay datg servic – the most famo of which is probably Servic are also offered directly through specialized web pag offerg gay rt servic. Romani LGBT activist David Tišer says the hight “ste” is reprented by prostut who make money abroad luxur gay clubs, primarily Atria and Swzerland.

In this photo om, Mart Jtel was to shoot a gay pornography scene the stud of William Higgs. Amid a persistg enomic crisis, men the Czech Republic are creasgly turng to a boomg unrground dtry for a shot at prospery - gay porn.

BEEFY CZECH GUY GO GAY FOR PAY CZECH HUNTER #301

Acrdg to a report by, the Czech Republic has bee one of the leadg productn centers for gay pornography, behd the Uned Stat, which still has a powerful grip on the ternatnal market. Some timat have gay porn acuntg for up to half of that. Acrdg to the report, the prence of straight men gay sex scen boosts the films' sirabily.

Iva Skoch's piece exam the orig of the dtry the Czech Republic, profil the Amerin entreprenr who led the gay porn revolutn the untry after the fall of Communism and looks at the men who have turned to pornography to make a livg. In this multimedia report, we exame the plex and terlockg piec of Prague’s boomg gay porn bs, om s roots an Amerin entreprenr, to the cultural, moral and polil foundatns that make Prague a gay porn pal, as well as the enomic necsi that drive many to the dtry, and fally, the human toll tak on workers.

In the termology of the Amerin gay sexual marketplace, he is a classic “twk, ” a th, young, pretty boy. He whispers “hello” as he tipto to the Prague film stud of William Higgs, 67, an Amerin producer and “an of gay porn” who moved to Prague right after munism end to rner the gay sex market, arrivg around the same time two other beard vanguards of palism — Santa Cls and Colonel Sanrs — showed up to monopolize Christmas and ied chicken.