Warm up those DVD players: Michael Lucas has finished his next porno, Men Of Israel, and it'll be released next month. The film marks a first in the gay pornographic world, as the premier Israeli film produced by major adult studio with an all-Israeli cast. Shot by Executive Producer/Co-Director Michael Lucas and Co-Director/Videographer Mr. Pam, Men of Israel features "exotic backdrops for many of the sex scenes eclectically range from the pristine desert cliffs of the Dead Sea, ancient ruins near Jerusalem dating back to over a millennium, to avant-garde skyscraper condos in the enriched metropolis of Tel Aviv," the film's press release states.
As both a director and a producer, Men of Israel is definitely the film I am most proud of,” the porn impresario says. “I firmly believe that it will bring awareness to all that Israel has to offer and will bring thousands of gay tourists to it numerous beaches, resorts, and other similar destinations. Based on all the press we have received from the Israeli media, this movie will be a milestone for the country. It’s amazing to see all the anticipation this project has created both in the United States and abroad.”
Men of Israel features five hardcore sex scenes with eight models, including newcomers Matan Shalev, Jonathan Agassi, Avi Dar, and Naor Tal, along with solo scenes, exclusive behind-the-scenes features, and documentary footage regarding the history of Israel. History lessons while you're getting yourself off? Brilliant! Someone get Lucas on the ballot for the school board. Over the coming weeks, Lucas Entertainment will be releasing a number
of images, cast interviews and outtakes through the new website
MenOfIsraelXXX.com. Scenes will be available exclusively to LucasEntertainment.com members beginning July 6, 2009, with a DVD release following on July 22, 2009. Lucas Entertainment will also release a volume of its popular Auditions line using additional scenes from the project, slated for release on September 4, 2009.
I've never been a fan of air guitar -- either playing it or watching someone else do it. There's something a little too self-conscious (and at the same time oblivious) -- not to mention geeky -- about it for me to really be able to just let go and pretend that I'm playing an instrument that I don't play -- much less an instrument that's not even really there.
But air sex on the other hand, now there's an American pastime I could get into. And lucky for me, flocks of horny, attention starved hipsters are swarming venues across this fine land to simulate doing the dirty with an imaginary partner.
Here are the simple, easy-to-follow rules:
Time: Contestants have a maximum of 2 minutes to
perform an air sex routine. This can include all phases of an air sex
encounter: meeting, seduction, foreplay and intercourse, or you can
simply cut to the chase.
Music: Competitors must perform to music, you can
either bring a CD of your performance track with you, or you can choose
from our selection of air sex music. You may also include an audio
prelude to your performance, maximum of 30 seconds.
Other Rules: Unlike air guitar, there are not
many other rules. Props are allowed, teams are allowed, talking is
allowed. The only important rule is that all sexual climaxes must be
simulated, not real.
If you want to give it a go, check out the Air Sex Championship site to find out when the mock humpfest will be inserting itself (but not really) into your city.
Following closely on the heels of Showtime’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl (and that whole “Client 9” thing with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer), Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Girlfriend Experience, delves into the world of high-class prostitution. Shot pseudo-documentary style, the film follows Chelsea, an escort, and her personal trainer boyfriend, Chris, as they respectively navigate their relationships and work lives. With the entire world at her fingertips, Chelsea is young, savvy, and fetches $2,000 an hour for her services. The film doesn’t really focus on the more sensationalist aspects of her work life; there is little sex and the clients are not cataloged in a comical or dramatic fashion like they are in Secret Diary. Instead, The Girlfriend Experience hones in on the more commonplace aspects of the sex-for-hire business, like Chelsea’s day-to-day personal upkeep and her ambitions to grow her business online.
This dry, straight-forward delivery is familiar from Soderbergh, who utilized non-actors and improvisation in his previous film, Bubble. Whereas Bubble, set in a barren Midwestern town, was considered particularly sparse and neo-realist, The Girlfriend Experience is coated in a glamorous polish of trendy, low-lit Manhattan restaurants and to-die-for real estate. In other words, it’s lifestyle porn.
A bit of horror mingled with helpless laughter and a dash of arousal is the general reaction to the latest Tyler Shields video portrait of Zachary Quinto, best known for his role as Spock in Star Trek and psycho killer Sylar on Heroes. We bet he's never had a role quite like this before. In the name of art, he lets himself be doused in milk in slow motion -- first in reverse than right-way-forward, just to draw the visuals out. It's even more fascinating to watch than the video of Matt Dallas with his Kyle XY co-star Jaimie Alexander pouring a bottle of Jim Beam on his face.
Like a new breed of extremely suggestive "Got Milk?" adverts, Quinto is a trooper, smoldering at the camera with the white stuff dripping down his chin. Milk facial, anyone? And if you want to up the ante, it's tons better with the sound on mute so that you can substitute your own soundtrack. "Down In It" by Nine Inch Nails has a particularly good ring to it.
The premise of the site is that you can make two of the five featured players from five different teams swap jerseys. You pick the two players and then they go at it -- pulling their uniforms from their taut, firm torsos and exchanging them with boyish glee. And then -- as if that weren't enough -- they refuse to get dressed again, preferring to stay shirtless with the new jersey casually slung over their shoulders. Even better is the "slo-mo replay" option that gives you an up close and personal shot of each players' abs and pecs.
There's some feeble attempt to pass this off as a site catering to women (at one point it's promoted as "game for the ladies") -- but we aren't fooled (and around this office, there are lots of "ladies" -- they just don't happen to be women). And while there surely must be some kind of moral here about "team work" and "good sportsmanship" -- who really cares!?
Now if only we couldn't convince adidas to do a jockstrap-themed swap...
One of my fellow Out staff members (he'll remain nameless to protect what little innocence he's managed to hold onto) sent me the above picture. He snapped it somewhere on the streets of New York and it reminded me of the 60ft painted phallus we featured last week.
Note the cultural lessons we can learn by studying the differences between the two instances of public penis art: in America we are apparently less concerned with size (though, given the scale, we still like 'em ample), here we're still primarily fans of the cut variety, and whereas the Brits hide their desires on their parents' rooftops, we happily, proudly display them on any old bus shelter.
We're hoping to make our public penis art posts more of a regular thing. If you see one, snap it and send it to us Popnography@Out.com.
The BBC is reporting that an 18-year-old secretly painted a 60ft penis on the roof of his parents £1million mansion in Berkshire, UK. Apparently the painting had been sitting unnoticed for the past year. The teen's parents say they'll have him scrub it off when he returns from traveling. We say what a bloody shame that'll be.
The GAYVN Awards -- the Oscars of gay porn, if you will -- hits San Francisco next weekend, and you could be part of the gay glitterati, hobnobbing with hotties and partying with porn stars. There’s a contest running through Wednesday night with the winner gaining VIP access to the awards and to the star-studded afterparty.
Gay faves Margaret Cho, Janice Dickinson, and Alec Mapa host the big event, but there are also two days of parties surrounding the show. Friday there’s the Tailgate Party, a bar crawl through the Castro. Hit each bar and you have a chance of winning even more prizes. Saturday, there’s a pre-show brunch hosted by Tim & Roma of The Tim & Roma Show, then following the awards NakedSword is hosting the Shameless afterparty with DJs Sammy Jo of Scissor Sisters and Jamie J. Sanchez.
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