Quote from: Kvall on November 07, 2009, 03:49:25 PM
I've seen a few clips of his stuff and I like it as long as the sound is off. LOL. He is not really my type, at all, but I am one who appreciates trans guy/cis guy pairings and I wish there were more... uh, twinky FTMs doing what he's doing.
There are -- do a search for Morty Diamond's videos (I'm pretty sure he's just the director, though -- WARNING, SO NOT SAFE FOR WORK [cos some people seem to need it spelled out, nobody here yet, that I've noticed, so I'm erring on the side of caution]).
As for my opinion of Buck Angel?
Once-upon-a-time, I trained as a Pro Domme and even as a (femme) adult model, so obviously I have some of his same lack-of-hang-ups about being
nude, nude, nude and LIVE! This light familiarity with the BD/SM "scene" (I'm really not that into it, on a personal level, as much more than an occasional thing) also means I've had at least one interaction with him (that I can recall) and know people who know him better. So, on one hand, I'm all "more power to him" if this is what he wants to do -- seriously, I'm not one to judge this kind of thing, and I find TS persons who are down of sex-workers of any variety to be the inherently classist folk I'd rather not have around, if only because less close contact with classism means less opportunities for me to throw punches and end up in jail. :-)
On the other hand, I know for a fact that Buck Angel is a bit of a Libertarian jerk I'd rather not associate with. Just get him talking, and he's all "bootsraps!!!"-this and that. I'm a patient person, and his ability to strain my own is virtually effortless; and the more I hear about what an [expletive, deleted] he can and on occasion has been at private fetish parties, the more I think there are FAR more reasons than his sex work that he should
not be taken as a representative of the FTM community. Unfortunately, the the details were told to me in confidence, so I'm pretty far from being at liberty to say any more than I have. I have no respect for him but this lack is based on nothing more than the fact that I find his personality beyond grating, to say the least.
Furthermore, Buck Angel is far from "the first FTM porn star". Do a search for Chance Ryder/Rider -- granted, Chance was billed as a "hermaphrodite" (after all "->-bleeped-<- porn" in the early 1990s was MTF-only", so they felt they "had to" bill him as something else), but his work pre-dates Buck Angel by nearly a decade. I also have it on good authority from Annie Sprinkle herself that her title
Linda/Les & Annie is "the first hardcore FTM story" (which is what she calls her self-directed porn titles -- they're "erotic stories"), which IMDb dates for 1992. It would not surprise me
at all if Ms Sprinkle is mistaken and something else starring unnamed persons pre-dates even this one, but it would have to be pretty obscure to have gone this unnoticed and unremembered in the wake of Buck Angel.
Quote from: chrissyboy on November 08, 2009, 01:18:51 AM
Meh, you guys who commented on me can say what you like; its a hypocritical double standard I admit. But just because prostitution is a time-honored profession doesn't mean I have to applaud those that partake of it...to each their own on their professions, good for them, but I don't have to commend someone on it just because their circumstances are any different than cis people in the profession.
So no, I don't think he's "brave" or "courageous" or deserves any more commendation than anyone else doing the profession.
There's a whole continuum between applauding a person's profession and putting them down for their profession; it's not a black-and-white "you're either doing A or B" here. Frankly, your initial post reads as if you have nothing but contempt and then some for sex-workers -- and that is where others have a problem. Just because you've never been in a position where that was a potential or even necessary option for you doesn't give you the right to put down others who have taken that option, for whatever their reasons. You don't have to accolade sex-workers, but if you condemn them, then you might as well just come right out and claim that you think you're better than they are, because that's typically how such contempt translates to those it's directed at.
