A Bareboned Euphemism For Gay Bareback Sex
UPDATE below;
What Euphemism DeWayne?
Gay men just referred to condom less sex as Bareback or Barebacking right?
Yes we DID but Gay Pornoland is a Southern California subculture with its own subset of Gay slang & even technical jargon. When I read this comment from Frequent (and valued) reader & poster Geoff Howard I sensed some confusion & potential conflict. On Brent Corrigan's Blog post #71 Sorting Tahoe Geoff posted this comment.
The top photo looks dangerously like a booking mugshot. Poor exhausted boy, and it was taken days before the Tahoe shoot began. I bet the pic gets photoshopped for some libel blog. It’s natural to feel apprehensive about doing something risky and complicated for the first time, especially when someone else’s reputation is on the line, too. “Brent Corrigan’s Summit” sounds very dignified. I was expecting the footage to cover a number of titles, such as “Geyser Boys,” “Bareboned Snowboard Punks,” and “Bush Pilots in Bondage.”
It’s good that you have a sympathetic investor this time around who won’t fuck up the final product.
Comment by geoff harvard — On January 21st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I read that in my usual speed read skim, until I came to the suggested title "Bareboned Snowboard Punks" Oops I thought that will push a button or two at Brents house, then I moved on.
Pushed a button all right,, Brent has lightning fast reflexes ;-)
,,,,Geoff, I’m really hoping some of that cynicism I detected is merely just some sort of mistranslation from me. Interestingly, though - I have booked a mugshot before. When I was 20, arrested for underage drinking at my birthday party. I had red, Indian war paint under my eyes from my costume. Bareboned Snowboard Punks? You’re fucking crazy if you think I’ll produce a bareback video.(Bold is my Emphasis),,,,
Comment by Brent — On January 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Hmm okay Brent "sure noticed" we will see if Geoff "catches on" while I am thinking the English language, Slang and its glamorous child GaySlang and the little GayPornoLand lingo are prone to misunderstanding then you throw in Blogging oh hell what do expect and,,
Well Geoff got the"misconstrued comments" part!
WRONG!
Reference.com?
Nope!
Slang?
Gay Slang?
No Dictionary or even ALL Reference search provides a ready description of the words
Bareboned referring to Gay Bareback sex!
Read the screen shots below from the GLTB Slang dictionary, not one reference to Bareboned as a Euphemism for BareBack Sex OR Porn!
Now wait a doggoned minute!
WE ex-Cobra Customers and fans of Brent Corrigan know the word Bareboned has a Bareback connotation because Bareboned Twinks (2004) the third Brent Corrigan Video was a huge DVD hit AND to this day you place the word Bareboned in Google or Wikipedia look at what you get.
Do we start to see why Brent or some of us in the Know would believe everyone posting on his blog would "just get it" We must all realize Brent Corrigan has new as well as older fans and many might have missed the reference to the Bareback or even bareboned porn.
Brent's current Bio he mentions the underage controversy but nothing about his bareback porn. Yes there are plenty of comments and posts at BCO but that is now in the past and fans really don't go there, right?
Yes he is not exactly silent on the matter at the New Blog but I do get the sense from Brent he believes almost all his current readers were at the old place.
That would be wrong! Brent Corrigan has picked up tens of thousands of new fans in the last 2 years readily apparent from a quick perusal of the usual free video sites.
So what to do Brent?
Maybe a Condom Public service message?
Oh yes I believe he just mentioned this is on the "To Do List"!
Back to the slang term Bareboned, the most famous example of the word was at Cobra Video but for about 2 years right at the beginning of Bareback Twink Porn (2002-03), Bareboned was used as a Euphemism by some producers as a way to deal with Distributors who were hesitant about carrying bareback DVD's. Soon the word Bareback developed a cachet making the DVD's big sellers and bareboned was quickly forgotten,,except for Bryan Kocis curious choice to title his movie Bareboned Twinks in 2004.
Ah but we forget an incident from that spring of 2004. Several Straight porn performers tested POZ on a Cali Porn set which led CalOSHA to suspend the straight Porn Biz for 3 months. This caused a lot of short lived consternation among Gay Bareback Porn producers and might explain why Bryan released Bareboned Twinks instead of Bareback Twinks. He had released BareBack Twink Orgy the year before.
In the meantime lets all contemplate the vagaries of the English Language,Gay Slang and GayPorn Terminology, and where Bareboned came from.
The only reference to bone I found, from the GLBT Slang Dictionary.
UPDATE;
Geoff responded
...One evening in the freshman college dorm I was pretending to look at the pictures in Playboy, and a Q & A article caught my eye. It said that you can catch some nasty bugs from anal sex, and for that reason you should always use a condom, this more than a decade before anyone ever heard of HIV. So at age 18 I became an early civilian adopter of condoms for prophylaxis.Thanks Geoff, I might add I suspected you "knew" and you were going for the parody of a Kocis film. So I "got it" at Brents Blog.
While most boys carried deteriorated, months or years old rubbers in their wallets against the event of getting a girl in trouble, I carried one against the contingency of actually having anal sex and not just dreaming about it. From unprotected anal sex you can get, besides HIV, clap, syph, genital warts, herps, chlamydia, Hep B, and Hep C. Add in any kind of anal-ligual contact, and you're in for Hep A and a host of gastric disturbances from coloform bacteria. I firmly believe that if any semen, a blood product, winds up lying on the mucous membranes under your tongue or between your teeth and gum, oral sex can transmit disease even more readily than anal.
I was and am aware that "bareboned" means "bare penised," that is, one who does not wear a condom during sexual intercourse, "boner" being the common American slang term for "erect penis." "Bareboned Snowboard Punks" was my off the cuff parody of a Kocis-like porno title. I didn't realize that Brent was so sensitive about the issue, but in retrospect I think he ought to be. He has lots of enemies who read his blog and are willing to exploit the slightest misstep to damage his reputation and ruin his life.
Yes Brent is a little sensitive about the subject, his present anti bareback stance is under attack every time they turn on the cameras. From the older "money guys"? No
The young men, the models whom Brent is seeking to protect!
For most of the guys (all 18-24) slipping a condom on to film a Brent Corrigan movie is a novel experience! Most of the guys Bareback in their private lives, as if HIV,Syphilis,clap, genital warts, herpes, chlamydia, Hep B, and Hep C don't exist. IF they think about the Nasties at all, the guys assume they will all go away with a shot! (Some will,HIV,HEP B & C will not!)
Geoff I have a ulterior motive here with this post, Brent Corrigan in 2004-05 may have done Bareback porn but his condom only policy today is an Edgy, financially perilous stance, met with resistance from the models, the Customers and yes some producers. Brent really needs to hear constant support for the policy or he will be forced to abandon it as surely as Kevin Clarke felt the need to "retire" at RAD Video when the Euro distributors said we do not want anymore condom porn. EuroLand is now almost completely Bareback in sales (90% or more)
Thanks for your great comments as always!
NOTE: I have decided after a Flu-ridden Weekend to suspend the Mashup concept but not the individual posts, I'll just be posting more frequently instead of saving up for Sunday! It was a challanging idea but TOO much work! Besides Blogging is supposed to be all about Spontaneity!
More to follow this evening!
8 comments:
That was...ummm...illuminating :-)
Ok, I guess I'm being too cynical now but I must say geoff's alternative titles gave me a good laugh :)
LOL I agree I get Geoff's humor he is one of my Fav posters. But then I got to thinking about Bareboned and well now you see why I love Jeopardy so much,, the pursuit of trivia and Slang is another interest so there you are!
I read that last night too, on Brent C's Blog comments. It made me laugh [as he usually does- great sense of humour- that Mr Harvard].
I knew that he was not condoning bareback behaviour or slighting Brent C. at all all on his pics.
I hope it is not out of line to say but I also thought that a young man of 21 is probably not going to get the wit and I remember at 21 yrs. I wanted to hear all my pictures were GREAT and that was it- :)
One evening in the freshman college dorm I was pretending to look at the pictures in Playboy, and a Q & A article caught my eye. It said that you can catch some nasty bugs from anal sex, and for that reason you should always use a condom, this more than a decade before anyone ever heard of HIV. So at age 18 I became an early civilian adopter of condoms for prophylaxis. While most boys carried deteriorated, months or years old rubbers in their wallets against the event of getting a girl in trouble, I carried one against the contingency of actually having anal sex and not just dreaming about it. From unprotected anal sex you can get, besides HIV, clap, syph, genital warts, herps, chlamydia, Hep B, and Hep C. Add in any kind of anal-ligual contact, and you're in for Hep A and a host of gastric distubances from coloform bacteria. I firmly believe that if any semen, a blood product, winds up lying on the mucous membranes under your tongue or between your teeth and gum, oral sex can transmit disease even more readily than anal.
I was and am aware that "bareboned" means "bare penised," that is, one who does not wear a condom during sexual intercourse, "boner" being the common American slang term for "erect penis." "Bareboned Snowboard Punks" was my off the cuff parody of a Kocis-like porno title. I didn't realize that Brent was so sensitive about the issue, but in retrospect I think he ought to be. He has lots of enemies who read his blog and are willing to exploit the slightest misstep to damage his reputation and ruin his life.
I was going to use the illustration of Gus Van Sant's Polaroid portrait of River Phoenix in "108 Portraits" of how a photographer can brace his subject up against a wall and make it look like a very insightful mug shot. In the process, I learned that "108 Portraits" (1993, now out of print) is going for $250-$750 on Amazon. My copy is now on eBay with a starting price of $249.99.
Come to think of it, urine is usually sterile, assuming a healthy kidney and bladder, so maybe Kyros and Dillon are on to something, except that I doubt those two mooks ever studied the operation of the kidney and bladder, and my impression of their vids from screen captures is that they quickly transition to the trasmission of non-sterile fluids without benefit of condom.
In late '84 i was summoned along with other Navy commanders in New England to a classroom at Mass General where we had an in-service about AIDS and its implications for the military. We were treated to vivid descriptions and photos of bizarre homosexual practices documented at the Mass Gereral ER. The one that struck me as oddest was mutual catheterization, wherein the partners in turn piss into the opposite ends of a tube. I think the objective was to enhance the effect of mutual masturbation with the shared warm fluid and eventually to mix up semen. Some of the more sensitive attendees had to excuse themselves.
Geoff thanks I added your first reply to the post.
van Sants photo book is up to 250? Damn I wish I had bought that when it was on the bargain bin it was a great book,,
mutual catheterization, you have mentioned a new sexual practice I had not heard off sounds like something kinky gay nurses dreamed up!
Having been the recipient of a cath(in a hospital setting) I do not see the erotic part at all!
Some producer quick grab up "Bareboned Snowboard Punks." It's now googleable.
I'll just add that "bareboned" didn't used to have a sexual connotation...it used to just mean "stripped to the bone"...as in "the project had a bareboned budget".
My, my...how the times do change.
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