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reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2008-04-04 09:55 am
Even an April Fool's Joke makes me think...
In the feeds of my LJ friends page I have the blog of a young gay porn star, Brent Corrigan. Yes, I know, don't judge me, also I have my little dirty secret... Well, truth be told, it's not my fault, it's ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
ashmedai's fault: he posted the pics (and also something else...) of this young twink last Christmas, and since I'm a very curious woman, and even if I saw him naked, really I only see his naked "image" and not the man, I made a bit of google search, and found his blog.
There is a little story behind this guy: he started as porn actor when he was still underage (even if for only few months) using a fake ID. It seems that he left home when he was still a teen and one of his boyfriend, an older man, sent his photos to a porn movie company and so he started. Then the boy, that seems not so naivee, sued the company's owner for using an underage boy in his movies but before the cause ended, the producer was found dead in his home... and sincerely I don't know how all finished.
Brent decided to continue in the porn industry as independent actor, producing his own movie, and selling his own things, often clothes and garments, to raise money. Now Brent is 23 years old and he is beginning to lose his twinky image.
On March 31 I read on his blog that he decided to drop all, to retire from the porn industry and to return home: his divorced parents decide to try again and they want for him to return home and to start college. Brent said he wants to study architecture and to build a new life for him... Since I'm not a person who cares of April Fool's Day, I didn't realize that this was a joke and actually I started thinking: is it possible for a man of that age to start again? is it possible for a porn star to leave behind his past, and start a new life? Since his face is rather splattered all around the web, how can he forget, and above all, how can people forget him? And can he rebuild a relationship with his parents? can he find a man to truly love?
So, it appears that the naivee one is me, who believed to a joke and worried. I don't know if feel relief for the fact that he today wrote on his blog that it was all a joke... I have this tagging feeling that maybe it would be better for him that the joke was reality... or maybe not, cause probably he would not have the chance to start again...
What do you think? is it possible to start again? or is it better for him to continue with his career? For the joy of his fans it's better that he continues, but for him?
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Now I can safely confess that I've been a fan of Brent for years! How amusing to find his name on your tags, I must have missed this post first time through! ^___^
But yes, it's an interesting theory - and maybe a plot for a future story. I don't know if someone so steeped in that industry in those early years could ever try something else - or would ever find anything else as 'exciting', even if it obviously has its seedy side. But then we all grow older and change our attitude to things, and seek different goals. Maybe so!
April Fool or not, it's an interesting idea!!!!
have a great week, lovely to talk to you.
*hugs*
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I don't think he'd ever win any acting awards, but he does seem to be happily accepting of what he does, and doesn;t seem to have any pretension about the fact he's in a porn film. And he is v v cute. He's inspired in me a lifelong love of pool boys, I think *lmao*.
Yes, I really must look at that for a future plot...LOL