The gay-for-pay genre of gay pornography often utilizes inauthentic narratives, situations, or settings to indicate its male performers are heterosexual and partaking in on-camera gay sex strictly for remuneration.
Also considered are the ethical implications of such male sexual abuse fantasies, which is a subject of lasting trauma for victims, and one that poses unique challenges in wider contexts. The study ends with discussion of the anxieties and appreciations the site has prompted in viewers, and the presentation of two themes in particular: ‘bad porn’ and ‘harmful porn’. More than 500 comments over a 2-year period help explain Boys Halfway House as a variant of extreme pornography, and canvas a range of views on rape and humiliation fantasy in gay porn more broadly. This article reads viewer commentary of scene updates on review site so as to consider the controversy associated with the proliferation of gay ‘abuse porn’, and of Boys Halfway House and its theme in particular. It is a recent addition to the genre niche of abuse and exploitation pornography sites that have surfaced in recent years.
Boys Halfway House is a gay bareback pornography website that purports to host the recorded abuse exploits of managers of a halfway house.
