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Well, the same thing could be said about mainstream movies.

Should MAINSTREAM videos, as a form of escape, have a responsibility towards educating the public while entertaining?

I dont think they should encourage the "bareback" fetish. Condoms should always be used, and the porn industry should continue shooting all vids and stills showing them in use.

it's the emperor's new clothes...err condom.

I think the studios who use this method should have a big disclaimer at the begining of their videos about safe sex. There's a lot of bareback videos that are easily accesible and everyday there's lots of younger guys following this trend. Not everything that we see on movies are applicable in real life. Some of the guys doing bareback know the risk very well or may possibly have HIV. It was their choice to do those videos, they know the consequences. Some people like the bareback videos because it's a fantasy to them, and they play safe in real life. All that I'm saying is be smart about your choices. It is up to us, the viewing public to educate ourselves. I think the studios using this method should have a disclaimer about safe sex at the beginning of their videos, maybe even a "behind the scenes" of how they make the condom invisble as a DVD extra.

People not only watch porn, they also learn from it and imitate it. Especially for the younger public porn is like a textbook. So, no! The condom shouldn't be made invisible.

Absolutely not. In my opinion condoms should be visible at all times. Yes, I do think the porn industry has a responsiblity to educate the public on safe sex habits. Porn is viewed by millions of people every day, including young people. The industry has a responsiblity to show them that safe sex comes first over entertainment. To make the condom inconspicuous may lead people to believe that condoms are not necessary nor needed to enjoy safe sex, and it may tempt young people to experiment without them. Education should be priority.

Yeah, they should take that responsibility. Not for the 25+ people; if they get AIDS or infected with HIV that is their own fault. They know how one can substract it.

I'm more worried about the 15-25 age range who might get under the impression that since in the movies no one uses condoms, they might as well not use them. "If everybody is doing it, it's probably safe". Stupid way of reasoning but it is the way those kids reason. Protect them from ruining their lives. We also protect and try to save kids from alcohol and drugs addiction, why not such a life threatening disease as AIDS?

I think that he's just trying to get out of the responsibility of selling bareback vids. It's every man's own responsibility but I remember when I was 18 and my view on things was not as clear as it is now.

its 2007 people already know how to protect themselves and really if people consider Porn educational their delusional.

Not to be shallow in the face of your question, but who is that model getting fucked and what film is that still from?

This very topic has been circulating through pop culture for years. Should "artists" be able to do / say whatever they want for the sake of their own art. Yeah, subject matter's different, but all-in-all its the same premise. It's a tough one, especially for the porn industry. But i feel that in this day and age, if you dont know to use a condom or are looking to porn for clarity, then you're just not gonna get it. It'd be like sitting down and watching Desperate Housewives to find out if you're a good mom or not, while listening to Eminem and playing some hack-n-slash video game.
I dont believe that certain media should be held liable for things, its all up to the people what they do or dont do.
my 2 cents.

yesssssss,, we need to be responsible, aids is rising, how ever if a studio puts a disclaimer saying all their models having been tested frequently and theres no harm i dont see a problem , but i still feel it better for majority studios to use condoms. you would be surpirised to the masny ignornt people still infecting innocent souls out there.
please be safe choose a condom, too many liars out there.

I think it's great. You get totally hot sex, while still being responsible. Anything that protects the actors, while filling the "bareback fantasy" should be applauded. They're simply safely supplying for the demand for bareback porn.

Put the condoms back on please. Stop creating illusion. Stop being naive that AIDS does not kill anymore.

They should definitely make the public aware; they have a responsibility to tell everyone what exactly they are doing. If they don't, people would most likely become misguided and it could lead to more problems with STD's and such. Not that everyone would even really pay attention since they are watching porn for pretty much one reason, but they porn industry does need to be responsible for itself.

Why should an industry be required to shoulder the burden? I think the most we can ask for is a disclaimer, preferably spoken by the director or one of actors, explaining what is being done and that condoms are IN FACT being used.

This would cover both bases and move onto why we're actually watching...to see hot man on man action!

"Why should an industry be required to shoulder the burden?"

Bratprince, because many younger people who may be first exploring their sexuality may start by viewing porn (I know I did, as well as most of my friends), and learn from what they see there.

Good grief people! First, it's fantasy, art, FAKE! Do you think that at the beginning of any movie with guns there should be a disclaimer stating that actions in this movie are not safe to imitate? How about movies like "The Fast and the Furious", placing a big disclaimer up front that says driving on the streets like this is illegal and should not be performed. Or, to make it more topical, at the beginning of every porn state "You will never really get laid like this?" It amazes me that people think movies should be educational, never, ever, has porn educated me, except on a few new positions. I don't look to it to see how my relationship should be, how many guys I should get in a bar etc. Condom/Sex Ed is up to your parents first, educators second, community third, friends fourth, and probably falling a distant 10th or so place, porn. Get over trying to make the porn industry responsible for sex ed, as it should never ever be looked upon as anything else but a pleasant diversion.

While I understand the motivation to make the condom invisible I don't think it should be done. Porn may be entertainment but it also teaches and if that lesson is that everyone doesn't use condoms that's dangerous. Is there a film that shows an erotic way to put on a condom?

If they have the technology to do this then why shouldn't they use it? Does having the special effects to make Superman appear to fly make people jump off of buildings? And for pornos with a historical setting, isn't the appearance of condoms anachronous? Yeah, they totally look like Roman centurions, but for the modern rubbers that miraculously appear.

And anyone who is going to do something dangerous because he saw it in a movie should just grab his Darwin award and get out. Just like the punks who try to duplicate the stunts from Jackass; natural selection is still hard at work. Figure out that movies are not real life and make rational decisions please, if that is beyond you then the average intelligence of the human race goes up by a fraction of a percent when you exit.

The industry must ALWAYS be held accountable for thier responsibility(s). If this practice of "hiding" condoms happens, it will only be a matter of time before lawsuits happen stating that someone didn't use condoms and ONLY claimed they did or that "invisible" condoms create a false reality of safe sex and place viewers at risk of practicing unsafe sexual habits.

ummmmm... I have to say that these are movies, adult movies, movies none the less. Last time I checked a movie was an escape and not a teaching tool. I agree that anyone who does something simply because they see it in a movie, should just stand in line for the Darwin, because it's bound to happen.

We have become a nation who doesn't know the term 'personal responsibility.' We ban smoking in restaurants, we whine that we are getting fat and it's always someone else's fault, soon we will all be waiting in a line to order fast food with a full medical checkup beforehand. Want that BigMac? Sure, we'll need your medical records, and just step on this scale please.

Wake up folks.

As for the topic at hand, this is a free market society, if the viewing public has a want or need for this technology, it will succeed. If not, then it will go away. Period.

Maybe the huge porn companies will do this, but the barebacking you see on Military Classified and others is not due to having a condom digitally removed. Those sites are created and usually programmed by the owner or a very small staff who wouldn't have time to go through frame by frame to remove a condom digitally. Sounds like its some BS coming from the porn industry.

Movies, mainstream, porn, whatever, generally speaking are all about some kind of fantasy. However, I think it should be an honest fantasy. If it's bareback, let it be bareback and say so. If it's condom, same thing. I disagree with hiding the condom. I'm old enough that I have pre-condom movies in my collection, and I still enjoy watching them. But I also have current stuff, with condoms, and enjoy watching that just as much. I really don't think I'd be interested in watching a hidden condom movie. I want fantasy, I want fun, I want new and different models and situations. But I also want to be able to think to myself, hmm, I wonder if I could try that? Or, hey, I wish something like that would happen to me.

listen here, why lie and make it invisible i will not foirgive any studios that do this, i will boy cott all gay videos and start watching straight porn. how dare they do this before you know it they will be reallling barebacking

Its RIDICULOUS to believe a Porn video should have a duty to "educate". People buy Porn bc they want to Get Off! If I were to put some Porn on and had to be lectured on the nature of Safe Sex and condoms I would turn the damn thing off. There is a time and a place for that and we should let ACTUAL EDUCATERS be the ones to educate NOT pornographic models or their companies behind them....Its the same argument about the Thin models being banned over in Europe right now or how all the little girls Moms and Dads wanted Britney to be some kind of "Role Model" back in the day. STOP LOOKING AT THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOR EDUCATION ! ! THEY AREN'T QUALIFIED TO EDUCATE BC THEY ARE ENTERTAINERS NOT EDUCATERS DUMB ASSESS !

Condoms > Barebacking

I believe it depends on the fantasy that is being projected. If the porn is amateur, or if the plot involves some college boys getting it on together, then there should be comdoms, to make a realistic safe situation.

But if the porno is something like "Arabesque", well I would want them to be invisible, they wouldn't make sense to the whole "scene" of guys in midievil arabia screwing each other.

Just because the films and pic are giving the illusion of going BB. Doesn't mean the industry is giving the ok to go BB. I sure hope gay men aren't that naive.

I suspect that the 'invisible' condom is simply a lame excuse for barebacking.

I worry about barebacking. Sure - it can look hot. But if it does encourage kids to bareback, then that's not good. But I'm not going to debate whether barebacking on video encourages barebacking in real life.

What I do believe though, is that porn directors should have the guts to say whether their films are actually bareback or not - rather than use excuses and pretend that they are actually using condoms. Digitally removing condoms from a scene is the kind of technology that is very, very expensive - and I very much doubt that even a large porn company would have the budget to do it for real.

nc7655 who are u calling a dumbass, i am entitled to my opinion, barback = death, invisible condom= death, stop being ignorant grow up, when will be diff reality from porn, idiot= bareback, queer click you know better

I think there should be a disclaimer stating that condoms were used to film the scenes, even if they are not visible, as well as a notice promoting the use of condoms for safer sex.

show the rubber

All of these comments are wonderful and good, but unless we make a statement with our wallets, the porn studios will not listen.

If the studio is CGing out the condom, that's not cool. It's not reality and I think they have a responsibility to be honest about the threat of AIDS, especially within the porn industry itself. But if they've actually invented a condom that's more transparent, then I say, put it on the market so we can all buy it and go ahead and use it in your films.

In the beginning of the HIV epidemic, gay bathhouses were singled out as places were the virus was being transmitted to huge numbers of men. Men would go in, lube up, and get fucked by 10 men in a night. Epidemiologists could directly link almost all of the first cases of AIDS to the bathhouses. The local governments were reluctant to close the bathhouses, however, because they were seen as hard-fought symbols of gay freedom, and to close them would be an intrusion on civil liberties. So instead, they put up signs inside warning goers that unprotected sex could transmit the AIDS virus. So what happened? Thousands of men died, and the bathhouses closed due to lack of business. I don't think this case is as extreme, but we have to keep in mind that porn owners are only out to make a buck, whether we live or we die.

The most insidious aspect of airbrushing out the condom is that it makes barebacking seem glamorous and natural. In the past the majority of bareback porn was the realm of sex pig movies like Treasure Island and Damon's 1000 Loads. At least there the consequences of having HIV were clear in those crystal-methed red grizzled bodies. When two young studs appear to have condomless sex, it shifts the act from something taboo to something desirable. With the condom airbrushed out, the actors are not taking any risk, but ostensibly the act is something we would want to see. The underlying implication is that watching protected sex is less desireable than watching condomless sex.

Its not a very large leap to the idea that actually having condomless sex is the best sexual act of all: it's more intimate, it's more sensual, it's the height of passion. I would like to see the barebacking porno that showed one of its actors turn HIV+ at the end of the porno. A disclaimer never does as much to stop smoking as a diagnosis of lung cancer. The difference between smoking and HIV, however, is that a smoker can't infect anybody else with their malignant tumors. This thing will only continue to spread if we sit back and say "it's not my responsibility what other people do".

i dont care! i just think this scene is hot, i love cocks like the one going into that hotties arse

I thought they did have disclaimers...isn't is called XXX? Well at least i've always noticed that all XXX have barebacking.

But i do think they need to practice safe sex in these movies. It sets an example to the impressionables in society.

But while we're on the topic, why does straight porn contain even more ignorance. I've seen countless straight porn videos where guys do anal sex on girls without wearing a condom. I think even the porn industry still thinks that AIDS is a 'gay' disease

condoms don't only prevent hiv, they prevent other stds including syphillis (which is on the rise in gay urban communities), gonorrhea (those burning pee-pees, ouch), and the all-present warts (HPV) which are a bitch to get rid of and which young gay men especially are completely ignorant of.

if porn producers insist on condoms for their performers, but then digitally remove them to give the viewer a "hotter" fantasy, why not include a disclaimer/explanation? it's a win-win: you get the visual fantasy but the written reality... if the producers want to protect their stars, don't they also want to protect their viewers/customers by letting them (us) know they take this seriously?

Ooops. I missed the discussion (so I don't know if this will be posted or not) It's funny that this came up as I just recently commented on the new bareback site called EpicMen. Anyway..

While I hypothetically can see people imitating art, that doesn't mean that responsibility is a one-way street. We're all human, afterall. There is enough information existing about health and sex for one to stay healthy. If people don't use it, the burden is upon them, imo. If they can't access it, that of course is another story.

That said, if there is an actual, distributable product called an "invisible" condom, I think it would be a good thing if it went on the market soon. It dawned on me that not everyone into bareback is into for the the aesthetic appeal AND the risk factor, only the former, so one really can't be that quick to judge. Some people DO desire bareback (in reference to Ray's comment) and if it's only because of the sensual appeal, I don't see why that should be condemned. So yes, Ray - your leap is quite large. People can desire those things, but not necessarily be willing to forsake their health - especially when they have a good alternative.

any public explicit materials, freely or purchasedly own must also be align with the standard generalization of the public opinion. right now, almost all sexually explicit videos showing activities using condoms as an public awareness that even sexual demonstration act on videos are using condom as a way in support safe and healthy sex.

Its like giving advice to your friends. It doesn't matter if they actually do or didn't do what you advised them, what matter is that you already did. It doesn't matter if the viewers didn't use condoms or didn't engage in a healty sexual activities, as long as the videos released already potrayed what a safe and helthy sex act should be like.

And as viewers viewing sexually explicit materials showing barebacking activities, with information stated in the material that they are actually wearing an invisible condoms which we can't see in the video but they claimed to be existed, well, I think that there's no harm in believing it. Eventho' the condoms may not existed while filming, its their loss not ours. If they have STD's, I think the problem will arise to the public and it will be a big smash to the film company.

Invisible condoms in my ass. I mean, invisible condoms my ass.