Directing Sex: Interviews with the Directors of Gay Pornography

What does it take to shoot hot sex in a gay porn movie? How does a director’s own life and sexual fantasies shape the stories and sex scenes of a porn video? What appeals to porn viewers more – a porn movie with a story or just raw wall-to-wall sex? Do you get the hottest sex scene by casting two porn stars hot for each other? How does the director know that? What if one of them is straight? Does it all depend on the performer? It may not be immediately obvious what the director of an adult film does, but there are many different ways of directing sex. This book gives a vivid picture of how directors are able to stimulate exciting sexual performances and capture them on film – whether it’s just casting the performers and turning them loose or choreographing the sex every step of the way. These and many other topics are among those discussed in Directing Interviews by Jerry Douglas with the Directors of the Golden Age of Gay Pornography. This book includes fifty-three interviews with the leading directors of gay adult movies, from the pioneers who made the earliest commercial films and created the style and the techniques of pornographic filmmaking up to the most successful of contemporary directors. Many were published originally in Manshots and Stallion magazines, a number of the interviews appear here for the first time. Published together, these interviews provide a comprehensive history of the gay adult film industry. Among the interviewees legendary directors such as Joe Gage, Wakefield Poole, Jean-Daniel Cadinot, John Travis, Matt Sterling, Toby Ross, Tom DeSimone, John Rutherford (Falcon), Steven Scarborough (Hot House Entertainment), Bruce Cam, Kristen Bjorn, Jim Steel, Jörg Andreas (Cazzo), George Duroy (Bel Ami), Mike Esser (Pride Video), Phil St. John, William Higgins, and the inimitable Chi Chi LaRue - with a Foreword by award-winning contemporary porn director Mr. Pam and an introduction by porn historian, Jeffrey Escoffier author of Bigger Than The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore.