“Bareback sells two-to-one, guaranteed.”

An excerpt from an interesting article about the porn industry:

“Bareback? I don’t even consider that a fetish anymore, it’s become so big,” says the owner of one Los Angeles gay video rental store.

Many in the industry, like Chi Chi LaRue, believe they have a moral obligation to produce videos that depict only safe sex. But others say there are economic drawbacks to featuring only safe-sex scenes. “As a small company, I am forced by distributors to shoot bareback content,” says Tyler Reed, who owns the one-man operation USA Jock Studio. “Unless you have extremely high-quality models, sets, and so forth, distributors won’t even touch the safe content anymore.”

But haven’t the majority of studios publicly stated that they shoot only safe-sex porn? Tyler sighs. “Don’t think for a second that these huge companies promoting safe product lines don’t also have their hands in the bareback action somewhere — a hidden wing of a conglomerate or some bareback website,” he says. “Bareback sells two-to-one, guaranteed. And if you put the word ‘bareback’ in the title, you’re looking at three-to-one.”

—from ”Porn Panic!” in The Advocate
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