Movies like “Philadelphia” and “And the Band Played On” are not even on my radar. I’m a 16-year-old kid who’s never seen or even heard firsthand recount of someone who died of AIDS. In a column this week, entitled “Bare backing backslide?”, Chris Rudisill says the community health problem with barebacking porn is an urgent issue for youth. Now, a gay writer with Myrtle Beach’s Weekly Surge is broaching the topic. We can do so with a little creativity.”Ĭheck out the piece for some of Bink’s suggestions. There is no one answer to tackling this problem, but there are effective ways to do so, and our community must find the best, most effective ones among them in order to meet our goal. In the piece, Bink calls for more effective community organizing: “There will always be consumers of bareback porn, and one way to organize may be to work with that community by meeting its members where they are, instead of where they would be in an ideal world. In other words, don’t just send a signal- send a specific signal and make sure the company hears it. Otherwise a porn manufacturer can’t tell one signal from another. If one wants to send a message that here are xyz number of consumers, all of whom are going to pledge to choose safe-sex porn, and they are only going to spend their dollars and clicks on such porn (or abstain from your company altogether until you make non-bareback porn), and gin up earned media around it, that is a better way to organize. One reason is that I did not send a specific signal. My abstaining from consuming Nike products probably did not make so much as a dent and certainly did not influence the company because in an asymmetric information environment, they did not know why I was choosing other products.
So if I chose Adidas or The North Face instead of Nike, I expected that Nike would get the message. I remember when I did- I told a bunch of friends “I’m never buying anything from Nike again!”, and that was the extent of my activism. Think of when you found out Nike used child labor. What is required for that is a specific message. Joe’s hypothesis is that if consumers choose to not “click” on bareback porn, producers will get the message. It may mean the scenes as choreographed were not very, shall we say, stimulative it may mean the actors were not very hot it may even mean that in a bad economy, consumers are spending less money on porn. If a porn manufacturer sees sales of DVDs or preview playbacks decline on a certain film, it may mean many things. Where signalling isn’t effective, though- and the problem with Joe’s call to action- is where signals cannot be correctly interpreted. In response, Adam Bink wrote a separate Bilerico piece adding some more nuance to Mirabella’s call to boycott bareback porn:
Simply, choose safer porn and you will be helping more than you will ever know.” Millions of youth do not have to be taught that bareback is ok. Later in the piece, Mirabella called for a boycott of bareback porn: “Young actors like Chad Noel should not have to die, just so you can get your rocks off. HIV is on the rise for young people, and the glorification of unprotected sex in gay porn is part of the problem. It is likely that starring in bareback porn starting at 18 will lead to HIV/AIDS, but is the glorification of unprotected sex through the porn industry also leading to an increase in HIV/AIDS related diagnosis among young gay men throughout the country?Ĭhad Noel’s untimely death is symptomatic of a growing problem in our community. Often it has been reported to Gay Porn Gossip by other young men that following their performances and association with Helix Studios, they became infected with HIV.Īs the news spread across the blogosphere, gay writers and bloggers went mad. The company was formerly based in Ft Lauderdale, Florida and now is located in San Diego, California, whose principal is Keith Miller. Helix Studios is a producer of hardcore condom-less twink porn. We have been unable to confirm this information. Chad Noel age 25, a former “twink genre” gay porn performer using the stage names of Donny Price & Craven Cox passed away in New York City, on Mafollowing a brief illness associated with complications of HIV.Īdditionally, close friends and associates of Chad have related to Gay Porn Gossip that Chad had became HIV positive following his performances with Helix Studios.