BelAmiOnline: ‘Do Whatever You Want’ 4-Way Orgy [feat Marcel Gassion, Orri Aasen, Peter Annaud and Raf Koons]

moondoggy says:

Oh nooooo, don’t ask me tantalizing questions like that!! I’ll try to keep it brief.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Oh wait, too far back — let me skip ahead. In the days before the Internet, there were basically four ways to know if porn was any good: word of mouth (which certainly didn’t help if you didn’t want people to know you were a perv), magazine reviews (mostly Manshots magazine, which only covered four or five movies a month, some of which were vintage), the box cover, and the reputation — the quality of the previous work by the director or studio. The box cover was a total mousetrap, never a reliable barometer of quality. But studio and director quality were extremely reliable, which is how William Higgins, Kristen Bjorn, Falcon, and Matt Sterling came to be so important to the industry. They committed to doing quality work. The problem over time is that quality standards became the enemy of some forms of creativity including, if we want to collapse these two things, diversity. When smooth men were “in,” you were never going to get a hairy chest unless you went to a different studio. When white is “in,” and in the US it always is, then finding a space for people of color is an uphill climb. Here’s what else I think is true — the bigger and more quality-controlled the studio was, the less chance you had of seeing them break any “rules,” and few things are less sexy than people who always play by the rules.

That sets the stage for some important changes in the industry starting around 1998. Once the studios adopt condoms as the norm, there’s no veering from that rule “EVER!!! EVER!!! EVER!!!” Even when both models are HIV+, even when both models are HIV-, even when the models are in a committed relationship, etc. So companies like Dick Wadd, SX, and HDK pop up to say “fuck you” to the mainstream industry. That was the biggest change, but every single thing that people find interesting, if it’s unconventional then they have to go to an independent company to find it. But the big companies continue to put out a level of quality that is hard to find in the little companies. That sounded like an absurdly long tangent, but that is the answer to your question. Bel Ami has used some of the best looking men I’ve ever seen in my life. More importantly, the last time I looked at a Bel Ami model and thought, “I really do not understand why people find him attractive” was ironically Johan Paulik, the model that probably put them on the map even before Lukas made his contribution. (My timeline there may or may not be spot on — it’s been 30 years!). And from the time they went bareback (which was before any of the American legacy companies went raw) until around 2014 when the new golden era of porn began to decline again, they were actually taking some sexy risks: The use of the identical twins was extremely unusual. The Scandal in the Vatican series was maybe a little cheesy, but they were at least venturing into the religious fetish alongside Mormonboyz (which I think can be credited with totally transforming the industry by making older models and cross-generation couples widely accepted in porn). But since then, I think Bel Ami only ever does one thing when it wants to shake things up — it just increases the number of models involved in the scene. From a sexual standpoint, “foreplay, oral, anal, orgasm” has been their formula, and I know of only one scene in their history that involved a guy fucking to a complete orgasm, as opposed to pulling out and jacking off for the camera in a separate take — someone pulled out of Mick Lovell in what I assume was an accidental orgasm. Bel Ami has been breathtakingly reliable for male beauty, but the narrowness by which they define beauty is repugnant and racist in ways that they don’t get adequately dragged for. And their inability to shoot a scene to capture the realer feeling of sex that Sean Cody was capitalizing on until the indy owner sold out to Mindgeek is what frustrates me the most after the racism.

Last thing I will say is that Lucas Entertainment is guilty of some of the same sins of excess control as Bel Ami. No one does creampies at that studio, ever. It’s always “jack off onto the hole” or “jack off onto the face.” But even Lucas Entertainment takes many other creative risks, and they also are vastly more diverse. People can criticize Michael Lucas for whatever his politics or business practices are, and for all I know they are right to criticize him. But the work he puts in front of the camera has been progressive in ways that should be acknowledged. For reasons of creative risk, this scene below was one of my favorites of all time, and I wish they had done more like this.

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