The Condom Comeback: Finally, Gay Porn Raises Our Fucking Awareness

Steamy edu-clips on condom application are making a porn comeback, thank God! Let's compare the hot level of recent XXX safe-sex vids starring Matthew Rush, Johnny Hazzard, and a particularly steamy demo by François Sagat that left us mercilessly panting.

During the latter years of the 80s AIDS scare, gay porn realized its influence on queer sex and started shooting only performers wearing condoms. A few prominent videos started out with a quick demo on gay safe sex, because for men to fuck with protection - unheard of! My favorite was featured before Hot Rods: Young & Hung II with Eric Radford, Mike Henson and a lady friend all stopping sex to slip on condoms for oral and apply spermicidal jelly for anal. Oh, the well-intentioned naivete.

Luckily, the campaign worked. Every gay man with brains on earth followed suit and clothed their cocks in fear of getting of the dreaded disease. Then we stopped dying in masses from the virus. The images of emaciated gay men dying in hospital beds became less frequent. Then in the late 90s we realized living with AIDS is not a death sentence. Then we tired of always having protected sex, since unprotected sex does feel better. Then some of us started ditching the Trojans. Then within the latter half of this decade, bareback porn boomed in popularity. The younger gays, who never saw the horror of the 80s, decided barebacking is really no big whoop. And besides a fundraising walk or run a couple times a year, does anyone still think about contracting HIV?

Then new infections started rising again at an alarming rate. Many gays were — are — forgetting the lesson.

Like it or not, the Royal Family that is gay porn has one of the strongest voices in our culture. With a recent flurry of safe sex videos, prominent porn faces (and many hard cocks) are try to re-educate us on safe sex. It's about fucking time. Now, we'll shush, and get to the vids...

Matthew Rush: How to Use a Condom

Ex-Falcon Exclusive Matty gives us a very practical step-by-step demo on rubber usage, from application to disposal, with his naked self as the model. Any view of Rush's cock gets our blood rushing, and if it's wrapped, our butt will rush to him, too.

Chi Chi LaRue and Johnny Hazzard Want You to Wrap It Up

Thumbs up to this video's message, but we find it less effective because it's so damn preachy. There are fantastic facts about the rise of HIV in youths, and data about how, although HIV is more manageable, the medical costs remain extraordinarily high. While we'll do anything sex puppy Johnny Hazzard coos at us, Madame Chi Chi comes off as the type of grating, loud-mouthed momma we do not care to listen to.

Steve Cruz: How I Roll

Points for the clever title! On his smart, sexucational site howiroll.info, Steve Cruz uses sex, sex, sex to win us over to condom coverage. His video features some of today's top porn names telling us why protection is important. The vid makes one want to stand up and proudly join the cause in a strong stirring of gay patriotism. With this bevy of beefcake urging us to roll one on, it feels the HOTTEST sex is unquestionable with a condom. We're spread-eagle now and ready, with the package safely packaged.

François Sagat: Condoms Don't Magically Appear, Dummy!

By far the cleverest and most arousing video is this one brought to us by French site yagg.com. Although we no parlez-vous français, we get the point as frisky François reveals his fully hard, throbbing cock, playfully teases us for thinking condoms appear magically in porn films, and then shows us how to roll one on. He lubes it up with such ardor, the thought of sheathing up has left us in a permanent state of arousal. We're putting on a condom with our other hand now, just for the hell of it.