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New Release Desk: “Tight Latin Manholes”
July 2, 2008 |
Press Release Roundup: I’ve been talking lately about the bum’s rush to film in South America lately; everyone and their abuelita are picking up a camera and packing off to Argentina and Brazil and every city in between. Here’s another example: TIGHT LATIN MANHOLES, a new Brazilian series from Third World Media. The director is Ed Hunter, who has helmed a transsexual series for Third World. TIGHT LATIN MANHOLES is about “male masseuses and their clientele who are always guaranteed to be oiled up, rubbed down and given a happy ending,” Mr. Hunter says in the press release. “We have every kind of guy—from twinks to daddies—and they all look amazing. These guys can wear Speedos and not be ashamed!” Another sign of the times: as you cans see from the DVD insert, the series is bareback. I have to ask: Was making this new series condomless really necessary? Third World Media is primarily a hetero and transsexual company, and I’m curious as to whether their customers are demanding condoms-free sex, or whether they simply followed a template from their straight productions. I wonder whether a niche (bareback) has been inflated beyond its narrow market interest simply because consumers are hungry for new faces and better sex. Cover model Erick is certainly gorgeous; if he is merely adequate as an erotic performer the movie will sell, so why go condomless? I ask not to condemn, but to suss out whether bareback’s popularity isn’t a giant boondoggle.
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“I wonder whether a niche (bareback) has been
inflated beyond its narrow market interest simply because consumers are hungry for new faces and better sex.”
Not sure I follow you there. I certainly agree, especially since this company doesn’t appear to be entering the gay market whole hog, that there is no good reason, even economic, for their one gay title to be bareback. I’m just not sure how “new faces and better sex” enter into the picture.
But the “100% Bareback” on the cover indicates to me their belief that the gay market demands it. With Brazil having one of the world’s highest rates of HIV infection, and more and more companies going down there to make a quick buck, I have to say that this is a title I myself would boycott, and I hope it’s not an early indicator of a growing trend in productions from the region.
I would have to agree with the earlier comment, given that the film is the first gay release fromm this company, then making it bareback is worrying
One interesting fact missing from this is that all of the native gay Brazilian companies (owned and operated by Brazilians) … MarcoStudio, Pau Brasil (released in the US through All Worlds), and Icaro have never made a bareback video as far as I know.
The bareback gold rush to South America started with bi/trans movies filming back in 2004. For the most part, it’s the US & European market that is behind the increased demand for bareback. It seems that most gay Brazilian models working today are doing everything: men, women, shemales, with and without condoms, totally versatile.
Since all of the models are adults, the choice of what to do with their bodies is theirs (for better or for worse.) One thing that did seem exploitative was the amount of extra money US producers are paying for bareback. I read on a Brazilan board that the bonus for doing bareback was R$250 (now equal to slightly over US$150.)
I buy and enjoy safe and bareback porn, but am interested to find out the budgets for some of these movies (how much the boys get paid vs. how much profits the producers take home.)
Yea..i sure believe the bloggers in here when they say “I WILL BOYCOTT THE MOVIE”..lol..such hypocrits!