(There will be nekkid guys and man-on-man sex, treated in street language, so this posting is not suitable for kids or the sexually modest)
Today is penultimate August (the first Emperor of Rome is about to leave the building); also the Friday before U.S. Labor Day (a day that for many people counts as the first of a 4-day holiday weekend marking the end of summer and oh yes, recognizing the labor movement); the day after we celebrate the beheading of John the Baptist (by Herod at the request of Salome, the story goes), popularly known as Head on a Platter Day; the birthday of one old friend from the late 1950s, Ellen Sulkis James; the day before the birthday of another such friend, Benita Bendon Campbell; and the occasion for the TitanMen firm to offer its annual Labor Gay sale, an occasion on which Men at Work on insertive man-on-man sex hawk gay porn (this year, we get the two stars of Breed Me Daddy), and for the GayEmpire firm to advertise its own Labor Gay sale (with an ad featuring the two stars of Hooking Up With Finn Harding). Something for everyone in there.
This year I’m going for the gay porn, mostly because it’s entertaining — there’s a lot that’s ridiculous in gay porn, so even videos I don’t find carnally moving can still be sources of pleasure — but partly because I’m in a light-hearted holiday mood, and partly because I want to lodge some accuracy in advertising complaints.
From last year. To set the scene, from my 9/2/23 posting “Labor Gay”:
Today is the Saturday of the US Labor Day weekend — the actual holiday is on Monday — and so there are sales on almost everything imaginable, including of course gay porn. This year TitanMen is offering a holiday pun — Labor Gay — for the occasion, in an ad showing two pornstars hard at work, laboring at their job:
(#1) The insertive partner is facially a Man At Work (focused seriously on the job at hand), while the receptive partner is facially EcstaticBut the ad is here because of that pun, which invites us to consider actual labor gays: gay people in labor movements [in particular, Bayard Rustin]
TitanMen 2024. First the ad, which has its two pornstars merely posing together, with (minimally) covered genitals:
(#2) Devin Franco (top man in this coupling; he’s a versatile top) on the right, Evan Knoxx (bottom man) on the left; Knoxx is way cuter than Franco, but Franco’s career hangs on his dick and drive, not his face
The first accuracy in advertising complaint: Evan K. spells his porn name with two Xs, always.
Meanwhile, the front cover of the Breed Me Daddy DVD shows us the fuck sene we expect in a Labor Gay video:
(#3) Knoxx’s ass is humped up to welcome Franco’s cock (which is fuzzed out for WordPress modesty, but you can imagine a sizable porn star dick, which Lucas Entertainment advertises as 8″, so it’s probably a hefty 7″); meanwhile, breeding is bareback fucking, with the fucker coming in his partner’s ass; and then there’s the daddy / boy relationship (you should probably remind yourself that these porn actors are enacting fantasies for their viewers’ pleasure)
GayEmpire 2024. An ad that doesn’t show fucking, but a lead-up to the act — in this case, the left-hand guy is about to rim his partner (who’s humped up for him, offering his ass), to open his ass for fucking and lubricate it with his saliva (the porn actors use plenty of lube, of course, but they videos rarely show that):
(#4) Now there are grave problems: the Hooking Up With Finn Harding DVD shows the actors Finn Harding (smooth-shaven, top man) and Devy (with a beard, bottom man) fucking in a gym locker room — but the guys above are not in a gym locker room; neither of them can be Harding; and the stocky guy on the left probably isn’t Devy either, so they’re from some entirely different gay porn video (though maybe another one from MEN.com)
But on to the actual DVD, with its cover — showing, not fucking, though there’s plenty of that on the DVD, but the two men as a couple, with their basketball. Harding, lean and wryly smiling, Devy a bit more muscular and entirely serious
(#5) The trailer for the video is all hot action, all the time, with Devy getting fucked in several positions
Just the thing for Labor Gay: work Devy’s ass, Finn!