If you frequent QueerClick, you know we recently posted an Cocksure Men update featuring Nick—a straight model who died accidentally a few years ago. According to police reports, there was no foul play. It was not a suicide. We initially posted the images of Nick and later pulled them thinking the whole update was in poor taste. I guess that got some attention. Cocksure Men contacted us today and they gave us their perspective on the issue:
…we knew when we were adding it that it was going to be a controversial decision, but it was a bit of a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t thing. Cocksure Men has two updates per week. The majority of the content is new, but we’ve also included a lot of the “non-Jake” scenes from Jake Cruise. People have asked to see lots of those classic scenes and since we have a non-Jake site, it made sense to include them. You have the option of joining either site. If you want to see Jake with the guys, join Jake Cruise. If you just want to see the guys solo or together, join Cocksure Men.
Had we not included it, people would have said we were “making” them join Jake Cruise to see Nick’s solo scene, and if we included it (which we chose to do), we would be called out for using older images of a model who died in an accident quite a while after we shot him. The fans asked for him and we answered that call.
Our decision also took into account that many other adult performers have died—including Joey Stefano whose videos are still huge sellers, Casey Donovan, Leo Ford and many of my other favorite porn stars—and it’s never been suggested that their DVDs be deleted. Rightfully so. Leo’s movie Blondes Do It Best is one of my favorite porn movies ever. John Holmes died in the 80s and you can still buy his DVDs.
Nick looks amazing in his scene. He’s got a great body, a handsome face and he has a presence that jumps off the screen. He was very proud of how well this shoot came off and rightly so. It’s still a favorite with the fans all these years later. There’s no reason not to include it, really.
Valid points. While we know where we stand on this—what about you. We’re curious, what do you think?
Two bodies found in a quarry north of Montreal on the 1st September have been identified as those of two American male strippers, Mark Kraynak and Steve Wright, who went missing while on a night out in Montreal 11 days ago.
If we’re not mistaken, one of them is actually our NextDoorMale Nick. He also appears on Straight Guys For Gay Guys – a recently launched website where you can find hot straight men having sex with women.
Flying over the site with a helicopter, police spotted the bodies on a remote ledge inside a quarry, not far from the after-hours bar that the guys told a friend they were heading to on Aug. 22.
The two guys were part of a 6-man stripper group who was on tour in Canada. Police have yet to determined if the pair fell into the quarry by accident or were the victims of crime.
(Thanks Steve for highlighting the news to us) Update:
The Two U.S. strippers who were working at the Toronto gay bar Remington’s were found dead inside a rock quarry outside Montreal Sept. 1.
Mark Kraynak, 23, and Steve Wright, 20, had been missing since Aug. 22 when they planned to visit a nearby after-hours bar, Red Lite, in the suburb of Laval.
Police have not determined if the men fell, were pushed, or were placed at the quarry after being murdered. The bodies were found on a ledge about 50 feet (15 meters) into the quarry.
Kraynak, who was from Uniontown, Pa., and Wright, who was from Santa Rosa, Calif., had been part of a successful lawsuit against the Canadian government by six U.S. adult entertainers who sought the right to perform in Canada.
Kraynak served as a specialist with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division in Baghdad prior to being wounded and receiving a Purple Heart. Update:
The two U.S. models who were found dead in a Laval quarry after having disappeared in late August probably fell to their deaths after they tried to escape a taxi driver who was chasing them, the victims’ families said Friday.
According to the families of Steve Wright, 20, and Mark Kraynak, 23, video from a security camera at the night-club where they were headed seems to suggest the two exited their taxi running, followed by the cab driver.
The families, who visited the quarry Friday to drop flowers near the spot where the bodies were found, said the two men probably jumped a fence that bordered the quarry.
They lamented that the warning signs on the fence were only in French.
Police are still looking to question the taxi driver.
The two men, in the Montreal area on vacation, called a friend after leaving a downtown bar about 3 a.m. on Aug. 22 to say they were heading by taxi to an after-hours bar in Laval.
Their bodies were found 10 days later on a ledge of the Demix quarry, about 300 metres from the club.
The bodies were found on what police described as an “avalanche ledge” about 15 metres down a sheer cliff, one-third of the way down the quarry.
Wright of Guerneville, Calif., and Kraynak of Uniontown, Pa., had been working as dancers at a strip club in Toronto during the summer.
(Thanks for the update, Steve! News source)
We never believe a guy when he tells us that and apparantly Nick from NextDoorMale.com says that girls are always shocked when they find out he was telling the truth. Nick is into extreme sports, working out, and girls. He caught our eye as he seemed to have the perfect next-door look to him. Nick has a bit of a reserved personality, but is wild when it comes to anything sexual. He says girls don’t believe him when he tells them he needs a magnum condom… until he whips it out and shows them. Go easy on those girls, Nick… they just might get hurt with that thing.
