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The Ghosts of Castro Street
Whenever I return to the gay enclave of the Castro District in San Francisco, my mind is immediately flooded with memories of old friends who are long since dead. Many years ago, when I was an 18 year...
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Why A Gay Porn Star Became Catholic; And Why I am Staying in the Church
In porn, my face was distorted into one resembling a little demon.“Tell sinners that no one shall escape My Hand; if they run away from My Merciful Heart, they will fall into My Just Hands. Tell...
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“Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the...
View ArticleLA Porn Plummets: Porn-Pushers Flee to San Francisco and Las Vegas
The Los Angeles Times reports that 40 permits for adult productions were issued across the city and county last year, a 90% drop from 2012 when the measure was passed. The law, called Measure B, was...
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Gay Porn Again Preys on the Insecurities of Homosexual Men and Boys
In an earlier blog, (see http://www.josephsciambra.com/2013/03/gay-porn-unwittingly-reveals-cause-of.html) I extensively covered the long history of daddy eroticization in gay pornography; i.e. the...
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Cancel Your Reservations: Marriott Hotels Goes Gay in a Big Way
This is political and social propaganda at its worst and can only be compared to those examples produced under Nazi Germany, i.e. shamelessly using children to illicit a purely emotional response from...
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Madonna, American Apparel, and the Return of Lesbian Porn Chic
Released in 1990, the music video for Madonna’s song “Justify My Love” exploded onto the pop-culture scene as nothing before. Because of its overtly explicit imagery involving male and female...
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Former Porn "It Girl" Claims She Was Forced Into X-Rated Films
Cross-over porn star and “it-girl” of the mid-00s Sasha Grey has revealed that she was forced into pornography. Born in 1988, Grey moved to Los Angeles and began appearing in adult films just after...
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So Cal Porn Permit Plunge: Yet the Cameras Roll On
19 and looking bored before a late-night Buena-Vista Park (SF) shoot.Since 2012, when Los Angeles voters passed a mandate requiring the use of condoms on all porn sets, permits for X-rated shoots have...
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Be Sheltered Under the Cloak of Saint Joseph
“Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of diverse colors. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his...
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How the Devil Imprisoned Me in Gay Porn for 10 Years
“The demons know what happens outwardly among men…” ~ St. Thomas Aquinas “Whatever exists and happens in the world can be observed by the Devil, although he may not pay attention to all of it. What he...
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What Homosexuals Want From God
Lancelot at the Chapel of the Holy Grail, Edward Burne-Jones: 1896.When I entered the gay lifestyle, I was not only looking for camaraderie, a community to call my own, and ultimately love, but also a...
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Why Is There So Much Porn in Gay Culture?
One of the many porn-plastered store fronts in the Castro.Everything nowadays seems to be saturated in a new form of porn-chic: from Abercrombie and Fitch advertisements to Kim Kardashian and a daily...
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Never Lose Hope in the Sinful; The Next Day They Could Be Saints
I regularly rewatch the 1953 film “The Robe” at least twice a year. Seeing the movie as a kid, it was one of the first VHS tapes my dad bought, is a happy memory from childhood. Then, I was awed by the...
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A Saint One Day; A Sinner the Next
“The evil spirits, cunning thieves that they are, can take us by surprise and rob us of all we possess. They are watching day and night for the right moment. They roam incessantly seeking to devour us...
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The Desensitizing Effect of Porn on Men
Negative correlation between hours of pornography consumption per week and functional-connectivity map of the right striatum in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.A July 2014 study from the...
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When We Are Chained to Our Past and Our Sins
“I cannot believe that God has let me live these three years to die chained to an oar.” ~ Spoken by Judah Ben-Hur in the 1959 film “Ben-Hur.” Ever since I was a kid, the 1959 movie version of “Ben Hur”...
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Nicki Minaj Releases Porn Inspired Video
Before the song was even released as a music video, the cover for the Nicki Minaj single “Anaconda” has been censored because of its crass and ugly display of Minaj’s backside. One music critic has...
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