It then follows Ben to San Diego for a shoot: “I’m just thinking about getting it done with…hopefully the shoot goes smooth, I don’t have someone who’s gonna whine and bitch about it…hopefully just sucks it up,” he says as his eyes dart to the side and he cracks a smile. The show follows Ben as he reveals his secret to gay friend Johnny (“You went from being a douchey bro to now being a bro who douches…wow!”) outside of gay club Minibar in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago (Johnny later questions the potential impact of the career on the couples’ children as they get older, one of the show’s most intriguing moments: “Any way to make money is a smart way, you know?”).
“Gay porn is a short-term opportunity…don’t wanna be doing this forever.” Ben has aspirations of going to college and being a business owner. “I wanna be the best father I can be to my three kids,” he says, noting that growing up he was once homeless and living in a car, and wants to provide his kids what he never had. When that wasn’t enough, he found porn as an outlet. That’s just something I would never have thought I would ever do.”īen says he used to work 14-hour days at a gym, then turned to go-go dancing at a gay club as an alternate means to make money (“What I like about dancing, I feel like a whole different person”). “I’m a straight guy willing to do gay acts for money. “I’m willing to do whatever it takes to support my family,” says Ben. It’s definitely cool because you start to build a fan base for something you that you would never thought about even doing.” What’s more surprising is that, as presented by the show and participants, his wife Kristal is also cool with the arrangement: “I’m happy with it as long as you’re comfortable.” The couple have been married for two years, both with children from previous relationships. “I’ve never been sexually attracted to a guy, but having sex with a guy, it could be anything-from vegetables to ’s actually a really difficult, stressful process.”īut after his first shoot five months ago, Ben notes “it turned out to be awesome. I never had feelings for a guy,” shares the 26-year-old Ben, who lives outside Chicago in Carol Stream, Illinois. “I had questioned a lot…are you bisexual? No. “Sean” from Sean Cody) and Luke (stage name Vadim Black, who has worked for the likes of Broke Straight Boys and Dallas Reeves) as they went about their daily lives and traveled for shoots. 9, and chronicled the trials and tribulations of Ben (a.k.a.
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LOS ANGELES-How far would you go for money? In the latest episode of MTV’s series True Life, that question was asked as it followed two men in “I’m a Gay-for-Pay Porn Star.” Since its debut in 1998, the docu-series has tackled the industry before-as far back as its first season (“I’m a Porn Star”) and in 2009 ("I’m Addicted to Porn”).