Sexual health campaigners GMFA are really making an impact with the latest issue of their magazine. As Pink News reports, a survey of over 1,000 gay men by sexual health charity GMFA suggests just under 7 percent believe they were led to having unprotected sex after watching bareback pornography, but more than half thought it led others to do the same.
98 percent of the respondents said they watched porn.
The magazine makes the following summary of their findings:
You lot are a horny
bunch.
You LOVE watching
anal and oral sex.
Muscle guys turn you
on the most.
A good chunk of you
like to watch bareback
porn but do not think it
affects your sex
decisions.
But you think younger
guys and people with
less intelligence copy
what they see in porn.
l 7% of you say
watching bareback porn
has led you to taking
risks.
Some of you like to
put yourself in front of
the camera.
And some of you have
put this stuff on the
internet (links please?).
9% of you have had
videos uploaded to the
internet without your
consent.
You like lots of
different porn stars but a
lot of you wouldn’t date
one.
You wouldn’t care
if someone you were
dating did porn in
the past.
You don’t care if a
mate has done porn -
and the majority of you
would be happy to watch
them.
The summary points are a little biased. A 'good chunk of you like to watch bareback' suggests what? 20%, 30%? The figure in the study is 95.8% so saying 'almost all' seems a fairer description.
Interestingly, the magazine also made use of bareback voices in the form of porn filmmaker, Liam Cole, of Treasure Island Media who commented that; “If you can find true pleasure in
condoms themselves, and record
that honestly, the viewer will
recognise that authenticity...but an artificial ‘sexing
up’ is only going to fool the most
gullible people.”
“I don’t believe they need to be
‘sexed up’,” adds English Lads’ Nick
Baker. “We just make them part of
the scene from putting them on to
removing them.”
So Cole prima facie appears to accept a role for condom porn - as documenting 'authentic' sex. However, given this kind of sex is rarely seen as 'authentic', it's pretty hard to imagine 'authentic' condom porn, as it pre-supposes pleasure and desire which - for some - is hard to equate with condoms. Although - as you would expect - the piece does maintain a safe sex emphasis, it is perhaps the comments of Cole which are most supported by this survey.
FS magazine can be downloaded for free from the GMFA website here.
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Bring On the Anal, Take off the Condoms...GMFA Porn Survey
Posted by Chris Ashford on 17:36 in barebacking campaign condoms Identity Pornography | Comments : 2
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Interesting to tie this one into moral norms and regard it alongside the "extreme" porn case.
If they'd proved fisting as "harmful" would they then focus on applying the law to bare-back representations? After all, the spread of HIV is potentially far more harmful than one prolapsed rectum.
I am expecting precisely that legal challenge at some point Gary. If not under English law, I expect a similar rationalised challenge in North America.
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