OK.. we've had MANY of our guys on MTV shows and reality shows.

I've never used it in any marketing and never tipped off the affiliates. I'm not entirely sure why. But
I think that when one of our guys showed up on "I Love New York" it really turned my stomach the way that the straight bloggers acted. They called him "The gayest of the gay" or "A big closet homo" and "a faggot."

We're a fucking solo site. How does being on a solo site make him "the gayest of the gay?" The model was a nice guy and straight.. I didn't see any reason to join in with that "HA HA GOTCHA!!!!" mentality that I saw on those blogs and forum posts.

They went on and on about his "gay porn past" like..

a) being in a solo adult movie makes you gay.

b) being gay is something to be ashamed of.

c) they'd caught him in some TOTALLY humiliating and de-humanizing act.



They, like all the fuck-wits of the Internet, took it as license to dog on him and the gay community along with him. As if seeing a hot man who'd pose naked makes it ok to print things like "He's a big fucking faggot and I hope he dies slowly of Ass Rot and AIDS like the cum pig that he is."

The whole thing made me feel dirty just to read.

Fratmen, in case you didn't know, is a rather classy, mostly-solo site that features hot men. I didn't see any gain in trying to roll around in the muck just for a few more morbidly curious members, and any traffic we got from posts accusing him of being "the gayest of the gay" was just going to result in chargebacks when they saw that he was just posing naked in a room by himself.

I've said it a hundred times... I can't shave with my eyes closed so I have to look at myself in the mirror every morning. I have to make a few decisions that might lower the bottom line but make me feel good about what it is that we do.