They’re not that different from the urge to create “finstas” (fake Instagrams) or private Snapchat accounts, pseudonymous accounts where users can, paradoxically, really be themselves. “Alt” can be read as alternative or alter ego, but the word has its own life as the term for secondary account.
And a faction of gay Twitter users have taken full advantage through their alts. Anyone, if their heart desires, can post nudes, selfies, and homemade videos of up to two minutes and 20 seconds. (Twitter, reached for comment, directed Vox to said media policy.) It’s a sex-positive policy on an increasingly sex-wary internet. The platform may have banned a former president who helped stoke a deadly insurrection, but nonviolent, non-extremist, consensual nudes and sex videos are fair game, according to the site’s media policy. Naturally, though, BUTT did it first.Twitter, I’ve come to learn, is a fantastic place to find, store, and share homemade gay porn. It’s the kind of talk you might fantasize about having with the singer at an afterparty. Back then: no.) Hadreas also explores his hoarding preferences, talks candidly about his relationship, and discusses what makes amateur porn so visually fascinating. Would you get this level of fetishstic detail in New York Magazine? (Today, possibly. In this interview, the magazine gets now-legendary performer and internet icon Perfume Genius to open up about cybering as a girl named Liz with a dude whose fetish involved sticking rubber boots up vaginas.
The magazine felt free to pose questions that were flirty, digressive, opinionated and occasionally uninformed - which sounds bad, but would often elicit more genuine reactions than anything a celebrity would ever tell Vogue or Vanity Fair. MIKE HADREAS IS QUITE INSPIRED BY AMATEUR PORN AND ONCE WROTE A SONG ABOUT HOOKERS (2012)īUTT was never afraid of looking dumb or disagreeing with their interviewees, so long as it breathed life into the copy.
When you see them on screen, they’re starving.” The candid exchange, in which the reader is made to feel like a voyeur, is representative of what BUTT did so well: providing space for unusual subjects to go deep and reveal their insecurities, but in a sexy way.
(He also has some seriously misguided ideas about how to bring about political change.) In this interview, he’s brutally honest about the psychological pressures of performing in porn, discussing the recent suicide of the porn star Arpad, who suffered under the weight of his own outsized persona, and mentioning how he deals with performance anxiety: “When I’ve been on sets that are really stressful, I’ll go in front of a big window…and just kind of look at a tree and zone out for a while.” Regarding the diets of porn performers, he claims “95 percent of performers have not eaten.
to shoot porn with artists and ordinary folks alike in all 50 states.
PORN ACTOR IS ALLERGIC TO ANTI-PERSPIRANT, BUT HE APPRECIATES CLEANLINESS IN OTHERS (2014)Ĭolby Keller is the kind of porn star who also gives interviews to Jacobin about the socioeconomics of the porn industry, and who once embarked on a tour of the U.S. (“Oooh, what’s that like?” asks anyone who’s been alive for the past two years.) Founders Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom said they sought to simulate “meeting an amazing man on the train or in a bar and hav a great, interesting conversation with him,” according to a 2014 VICE interview. (Yes, non-twinks were invited to the party, too.) The pink-paged magazine, which probed the private lives of queer iconoclasts - and dove into the sex lives of more than a few raunchy randos - is fascinating as a historical document: it premiered way, way back in 2001, when anxieties about the commodification of gay culture were still running high and queer leftists were having heated debates about the utility of gay marriage.īy contrast, BUTT seemed to offer a hornier, more separatist vision of gay culture - one that believed candid pillow talk could give birth to a more inclusive, intimate, and sexually open community. If you were a sprightly twink in the mid-to-late aughts looking for socio-sexual guidance, no magazine mattered as much as BUTT.