Occasionally, there are rare moments when complacency takes over, the veil of lies drops, and the truth is revealed. Case in point - Tim Valenti, arguably the most influential man in gay porn, and one of the biggest players in all of pornography, said in a recent interview: “Porn is a big part of gay culture - it's not shocking to anyone anymore…It's just another part of who we are. It's no longer in the back room and the truck stop. It's out in the open.” A former Catholic altar boy and Jesuit-educated graduate of the University of San Francisco, Valenti turned a tiny enterprise born in the back room of the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater more than a decade ago into a multimedia industry leader dubbed by some as the “Netflix of gay porn.” Much like Netflix, Valenti's NakedSword offers loyal members - 10% of whom are straight females - a choice of more than 14,000 streaming gay porn offerings, two of the nation's biggest gay porn blogs and a growing menu of original content.
What Valenti so candidly described is exactly the point I have been trying to make through this blog: pornography is an essential part of gay culture; especially in terms of sexual practices, psychological deviances, and recruitment methods. For instance, in an earlier blog: http://www.josephsciambra.com/2013/03/gay-porn-unwittingly-reveals-cause-of.htmlI detailed how the penchant for daddy-son scenarios in gay porn unwittingly reveals the truth about homosexual dysfunction that essentially has its roots in childhood. In addition, the growing popularization of once underground forms of pornography; such as gay porn, bondage porn, or even child porn, by the main-stream media has created an atmosphere in which the population at large could more easily accept it as conventional. When I first got into porn, the hardest thing you could buy at a local liqueur store or video-tape rental location was a Penthouse magazine or a Playboy“video centerfold.” In order to find gay porn, one almost always had to go down to a gay ghetto, such as The Castro in San Francisco, and purchase it there. The internet forever changed that equation. Consequently, the proliferation and greater visibility of gay sex on the internet, and in the main-stream media, has created a recruitment tool for the homosexual community, in which children are desensitized to homosexual activity, sometimes excited by it, especially by those who may be questioning their sexuality, and then presented with an unrealistic picture of both the gay lifestyle and gay sex. In conclusion, gay porn is both a window into the gay world – in that we are able to look into the deepest desires and longings of gay men, and also a satanic portal to hell that deceives the young, lonely, and the unsuspecting.