Breion Diamond goes bareback

Breion Diamond on set

Not sure what to make of this, and I can’t tell how recent this development is, but it would seem that Breion Diamond has given up the ghost and decided to do bareback porn. Yes, that would mean that he is now having sex, with the cameras rolling, without wearing a condom.

Long known for making porn movies with his manhood properly sheathed, Diamond has, nonetheless, never really been an impressive nude exotic dancer or porn actor, which might explain why he would dispense with condoms after initially not filming without them.

He was/is too slight, too small (in most areas), not well-defined for an actor who touted himself as a top, and he has never managed to exude and sustain sex appeal in the amounts people who take off their clothes for money need today. While his boyish looks carried him through the earlier times, the competitors’ muscle tones got sharper, the pudenda got bigger (well, better-sized actors came along) and the acts got more sizzling, leaving Breion looking  like yesterday’s porn star.

So, one can guess that Diamond has finally succumbed and gotten to the arena that is getting the most play in town; bareback sex.

It’s not a fashionable thing to say but here is yet more anecdotal evidence that bareback sex (on and off camera) has lost the stigma it had at the height of the Aids epidemic in the early 90s. What to do about it is, of course the issue exercising a lot of writers and opinion formers. Los Angeles is trying to force the porn actors to put a rubber on it, and one has to wait and see what level of success this will achieve if the legislation gets voters’ approval.

Breion Diamond

Money quote about the circle movie producers are trying to square in a bid to stay relevant to their buying public while making a nod to the health implications of eschewing condoms entirely:

Diane Duke of the adult film lobby group Free Speech Coalition …  has said previously that the measure was “government overreach  into the way we make movies.” Porn producers have said they tried using  condoms in the late 1990s following an HIV scare, but consumers were not interested in spending money on porn with condoms.

Yours truly doesn’t have any answers either apart from following the admittedly vague argument that a cure is the only solution.