I wouldn't characterize Kevin Clarke has acting hypocritically. Besides, what does that mean anyway... acting hypocritically? So what? He obviously just is very upset over bad news that hits close to home for him. Keywords here -- for him. I've always liked his movies, and I can totally understand his decisions.

HuskyHunks - Also note that the article says Clarke is 55 years old. One thing I observe repeatedly, is that gay men in their 40s and 50s, particularly if they reside or resided in New York, San Fran and L.A., are generally more hostile to the barebacking phenomenon than other groups. To me, that makes sense, because when they were coming of age all their friends were dying.... surely a wrenching experience for anyone involved.

Now I'm not judging that those peoples' feelings are any better or worse than someones with a different attitude on the subject. (These are one's own personal feelings after all) That's just something I observe often - the gay men 40 - 59 SF/LA/NYC are typically very vocally opposed.

Now I'm 37, and I'm kind of on the cusp of all that history. I can certainly observe that young guys today live in a very different world. Clarke's comment about his European distributor only selling bareback is interesting too. But let's break out from our Unites States myopia here. I think Europeans have a fundamentally different attitude about sex. They seem to look at barebacking as a participatory taboo like cigarette smoking. Whereas in California, people love to regulate everyone else's health for their own supposed public benefit, and we are seemingly always on the verge of a new health pandemic or environmental catastrophe. This is the California twist on old timey Catholic guilt, perhaps. (I don't know because I'm not in California, and I've practically never been to church ever.. that's 2 strikes )

I personally don't have a gripe about bareback movies. One reason: if you think studios have blood on their hands for glamourizing such activity, then logically gay.com, manhunt, men4sexnow and all other hookup websites are significantly the worse, because they are the true facilitators. (I'd never heard of barebacking until I got on IRC) Plus I don't think horror movies should be restricted for, as some see it, glamorizing gory violence. Logic follows here.

But many very intelligent people feel the opposite, and I understand that. I wouldn't peg anyone... particularly on here.. as not being careful or circumspect in their own way on this subject.

Steve