"Tom Katt" gets religion

[Richard Craver]

Gag me with a spoon. "Tom Katt" has got religion and is now 'straight.'

I'll never be able watch his videos again

Tom Katt goes straight :fool:

“I didn’t hit rock bottom, and I didn’t turn to a particular church. I just started praying. I prayed and asked God for help,” he says. “I asked him to help me with what my life was becoming, and what my life should become. He truthfully helped me in my heart and showed me that what I was doing wasn’t correct.” So he began studying on his own. And get this. “I remember being on a … [porn] set, and the guys all laughing at me because I was reading the Bible,”

[CorbinFisher_BD]

With a name like that he shoulda become a Scientologist.

[Jasun]

in all of his movies, you could tell he was a rather.. um... well, not the brightest bulb in the box, you know?

[Xstr8guy]

Straight?! Haha.

“During the period of the movies, I had two boyfriends and a couple of girlfriends. I felt I had to stay away from women because, ‘hello,’ I was doing gay porn — no woman was going to have anything to do with me,” he says.

Sure, straight guys use "hello" like that all of the time.

[Sana Chan]

This shows how much I know.

I thought we were talking about that therapist guy who had a cartoon show on Comedy Central, Doctor Katz I think his name was.

[Richard Craver]

not to hijack my own thread but how much do 'big time' gay porn stars make 'all in' with films, promotion, escorting? enquiring minds want to know.

and is mr. katt really not all that bright?

[Dzinerbear]

That's a shame. He must really be struggling with something. I have a lot of sympathy for people who go to this extreme, finding religion to cure themselves, because it's a painful journey. When I was 15 years old I discovered Jesus could cure me and I set off on a four-year quest to be rid of my homosexual "demons."

Imagine what it's like to fight your natural urges everyday and beat yourself up every time you slip. It's horribly painful and lonely. I feel bad for Katt.

Things kind of came to a head (pardon the pun) when I was around 18 years old. I had read a couple of books where gay guys were delivered from Satan and completely healed. It was a dramatic experience, almost exorcist like, where a bunch of people jumped on this gay guy and prayed for him. The demons started coming out of his body through his mouth in the form of white foam. So I decided that was the answer. Since that didn't happen to me, I hadn't been healed and that's why I was still gay.

The next time I went to a Full Gospel Businessmen's dinner I decided I was going to get healed. There was a big-time screaming preacher there. Now, you have to understand, I was into this stuff big time -- speaking in tongues, slaying in the spirit (falling backwards when someone touches you), prophecy, tambourines, singing, dancing, hands up in the air. The kind of churches I went to made your regular "Amen, Sister, with a big wailing choir" kind of Black church look pretty tame.

So after the dinner and the speaker, they did the prayer call. I went up to the front. Some helper guy of the speaker's came over and asked what I needed. I told him. He prayed for me, patted me on the head, and sent me on my way. As he turned to go to the next person, I said, "Wait." He turned back, and I said, "They're still in there."

"Who is still in there?" he asked.

"The demons, there are hundreds of them. I can see them and they're still in there." This second-stringer got really nervous and starting hemming and hawing. He ran over and grabbed the big guy, the one we had all come to hear. He told the guy obviously what I was there for and what I had said. Well, that man caming running at me full-force and before he even got right to me, he started screaming, "You HOMOSEXUAL demons come out of this servant of God." If he screamed homosexual at the top of his lungs once, he didn't it about eight times. The whole room stopped dead, including a group of friends I had come with who had no idea. He put his hands on my head and screamed his fucking head off.

I just wanted to die.

And that was pretty much the end of it for me. I wasn't healed. No foam came out of my mouth. I was humiliated and embarrassed. At first I was confused because why would God do this for someone else and not me. I went to church, I read the Bible, I sang, I raised my hands, I witnessed, I spoke in tongues. I did everything I was supposed to do. And then one day, I said, "God, if you don't like who I am, then I don't want anything to do with you anymore. So fuck off."

It's a funny story to tell now, and even funnier in person as I act it out. But it's one of the 12 most defining moments of my life. But it took me four years to muster up the courage to go there.

I understand how some of you feel about Tom Katt and what he's doing, but try to have some compassion for the guy. He must be in a lot of pain to turn his back on what I would consider to be his own true self, although I don't know him so I don't know. There are going to be a lot of tear-filled nights in Tom's future. His decision has nothing to do with being the brightest bulb in the box or not, it has to do with an intense feeling of loneliness and just wanting to fit in -- belong -- somewhere. And I imagine the fact that he's getting older and isn't getting much work (because we don't like to watch old guys fuck) has a lot to do with his feelings of despair and loneliness.

I hope he finds some measure of peace, but I doubt he will.

Cheers,
Michael

[XXXWriterDude]

Wow. You folks are pretty behind the times. That's old news now.

[XXXWriterDude]

Don't be so quick to write this guy off.

I think it's important to note that if you actually READ this article, Katt sounds pretty clear-headed on what his choices are. He also strongly defends homosexuality, saying that the Bible does not condemn it ("That's a piece of crap," he states), and his decision to identify as straight comes not because he thought sleeping with other men was morally wrong, but because he just did not find an emotional connection with other men.

He also has not denounced the porn business; he simply chose not to participate in it anymore. He is very open about his past.

I really don't think this is a case of him trying to "cure himself" at all. Rather, I think he's just coming into his own and figuring out who he really is.

It's no secret that a lot of people get into porn for the WRONG reasons, and that this business tends to exaccerbate existing demons. Many of the performers are sexually confused; they've desensitized themselves to sex so much that they don't care who they sleep with. Everyone knows by now that straight or gay, the ability to have and enjoy sex with partners of any gender is quite possible, but it would be a mistake to say that Tom Katt was ever truly "gay."

Though I don't share his spiritual inclinations, I actually think that Katt is on a path that is beneficial to his health and well-being, and I wish him well.

[DonMike]

Something else to keep in mind is that there is no black and white in sexuality. There are a multitude of ways a person can be sexually, even to the point of not identifying themselves sexually. A straight guy can get a blowjob from another guy, totally enjoy it, but that does not make him gay. Same as a gay man could totally fall in love with a woman and still be attracted to men.

Consider the fact that this guy got into porn as a way to make money. He dated men and women. Maybe he's gay and totally in denial and repression, maybe he's let his religious beliefs overshadow his true passions, or maybe he really liked women all along and only dated men because he felt he couldn't be straight if he was doing gay porn.

The truth of the matter is that without really knowing the man personally, and on a deep level, we simply don't know. He may not even know for sure at this point. I think we all tend to take our own experiences and use them to color our opinions of others. I went through that phase of calling myself "bisexual" for several months because I couldn't deal with being gay, so for the longest time anytime I heard someone identify themselves as bisexual my immediate impression was the same, that they were gay and not dealing with it. Is that really fair to that person for me to assume that? Maybe they are going through what I went through, maybe they're more straight but open enough to enjoy sex with men? Maybe they're truly bisexual? Maybe their just a slut. Who knows. It's not for me to judge.

[XXXWriterDude]

Something else to keep in mind is that there is no black and white in sexuality. There are a multitude of ways a person can be sexually, even to the point of not identifying themselves sexually. A straight guy can get a blowjob from another guy, totally enjoy it, but that does not make him gay. Same as a gay man could totally fall in love with a woman and still be attracted to men.

Consider the fact that this guy got into porn as a way to make money. He dated men and women. Maybe he's gay and totally in denial and repression, maybe he's let his religious beliefs overshadow his true passions, or maybe he really liked women all along and only dated men because he felt he couldn't be straight if he was doing gay porn.

The truth of the matter is that without really knowing the man personally, and on a deep level, we simply don't know. He may not even know for sure at this point. I think we all tend to take our own experiences and use them to color our opinions of others. I went through that phase of calling myself "bisexual" for several months because I couldn't deal with being gay, so for the longest time anytime I heard someone identify themselves as bisexual my immediate impression was the same, that they were gay and not dealing with it. Is that really fair to that person for me to assume that? Maybe they are going through what I went through, maybe they're more straight but open enough to enjoy sex with men? Maybe they're truly bisexual? Maybe their just a slut. Who knows. It's not for me to judge.

Excellent post, Don. That's the kind of level-headed thinking I like to see around here.

[DonMike]

*blush Aww, shucks. Thank you.

[marcjacob]

Ive read alot about "ex gays" as they call them, and this doesnt ring true as the typical "ex gay" story. I dont believe for one second that his main past time is reading the bible, but i dont see why a bi guy cant meet a women, marry her, find religion and lead a normal life.

Normally "ex gays" are more about not being able to deal with their sexuality, swallowing the anti gay bs, and getting swept along with the whole "trust God and he will make you straight" thing (all bollocks of course - and im a Christian!). He refuses to condem Gay people and he has actually researched enough to know that the right wing is talking shite.

Good luck to him, i hope he and his new wife are very happy together.