What is the "sport" part of "Water Sports"? Is there a "skill" involved in pissing on someone? Do you really need to "practice" for Water Sports the way Olympic athletes practice for their respective sports? Obviously, if there is a "winner" in Golden Showers competitions, he'd get a "Gold" medal... I could go on and on, but that piss talk makes me queesy. No, I do NOT like to see or participate in pissing scenes, water sports, golden showers or whatever you want to call it, but aparently a lot of people do. I don't think I would even want to walk under that fountain of Michaelangelo's David spurting water out of his pee pee. But, for you sickos that like that stuff, here is a list of piss videos you can watch online: I Love My Piss by Third World Video My Piss My Cum By Bobby Michaels Devil In The Rain by Titan Piss Police by Third World Video Detour by Titan Piss Off by Third World Video Gorge by Titan Thirsty by Third Wave Video Wet by Spunk Video My Masters by Spunk Video (Director: Christopher Rage)

J.C. Adams reports that gay porn star Rod Roddick died Thursday, August 18th of a heart attack. Adams writes: He was 34 years old. Information is still coming in and I have not been able to confirm what he suffered from, although director Blue Blake tells me Mr. Roddick had been sick for some time. Rod Roddick appeared in MINUTE MEN 15 (Buckshots/COLT, 1997) and later TALES FROM THE TREEHOUSE (2001) for Big Blue Productions. Of course he was wildly popular on the bodybuilding circuit and among muscle fans thanks to that spectacularly bulging physique. "I met Rod when I first met my husband Harold," recalled Mr. Blake, "so it's been ten years. We met when I was doing 'Making Porn' Off-Broadway and I thought, 'I wouldn't mind doing a film with him!'" Later, when Mr. Blake founded his studio, "I used him straightaway in TREEHOUSE as the football player, because I thought he was the very image of the archetypal football player. He was a lovely guy, it's very sad." ROD RODDICK STATS: Height: 5' 11" Weight: 260 hard, ripped, tanned lbs. Body Fat: always at or below 5% Chest: 56 + Waist: 31" Quads: 30" Biceps: 21" Hair/Eyes: Brown/Blue

Muscle icon Zeb Atlas has been spotted posting his profile on BigMuscle.com, the gay dating site that has also become a sort of porn star holding tank. I was going to say that someone should tell the gay-for-pay Zeb that Big Muscle is a place where guys hook up with guys, but I think he knows that. I'm pretty sure he's using it as a tool for "guy$$$ hooking up with guy$$$", if you know what I mean. Despite numerous requests for more hairy-chested photos of Zeb Atlas, he actually prefers to shave ("more def." he says). He even did a video of himself shaving his chest (click for a sample). (Collective sigh from the muscle bear community...) Amazingly, the Big Muscle fans also preferred his own more natural and raw photos from home rather than the primped and plucked photos done by professionals, so I included a few here. However, Zeb has his own website now, ZebAtlas.com, where he has a variety of different photographic styles and he even does live shows (click for a sample video.

I hate having to be a "responsible journalist", because I'm not, really. I'm just a gossipy blogger covering the gay porn beat. We all love to hear and repeat gossip, but sometimes I run across a juicy story about somebody in the gay porn industry, and I have to think twice about running it. I don't have lawyers or publicists or "my people" to defend me if someone's feelings get hurt, and the guys in the gay porn industry don't have lawyers or publicists or "their people" to defend them either. I've gone through fazes of being a lot more brazen about spreading gossip just to stir up the shit and make a name for myself and my gay porn blog. Even if there is no backlash from spreading a piece of gossip, I often feel icky afterward. And believe it or not, I suppress a lot of stories that could blow up in my face or cause someone undue anquish. Aren't I a saint? (eyes rolling) So now, this study comes out done by reponsible scientists and reported by "responsible journalists" from the respected and decidedly non-gossipy (ahem) New York Times. The gist of it is, gossiping is considered normal behavior and actually helps both parties become more a part of their peer group. Interesting. Another fascinating point made is that if the guy who spreads gossip has high self-esteem and feels good about himself, he will spread positive gossip, but if he feels marginalized, he'll spread derogatory gossip. That certainly explains a lot. Of my gay gossip peers, Mark Adams, Will Clark, and JC Adams mostly write positve items, but I can tell when they're grumpy. Ted Casablanca and Billy Masters seem to have no self-esteem problems cause they'll tell anything about anybody - except Ms. Casa-B, who always buries the good stuff in those damn indecipherable Blind Items! I could strangle him sometimes! Ooops, there I go again, I must be in a bad mood... So listen up, Jeff Palmer, Mark Dalton, Zeb Atlas, Jeff Stryker, Ryan Idol, Dick Wolf, David Forest and he-who-shall-not-be-named. You're not going to escape gossip, but you better hope I'm in a good mood! I'll never forget what Steven Scarborough told his models as I approached their booth at IML, "Here comes Mark Kliem, he can either make you or break you." HAVE YOU HEARD? GOSSIP TURNS OUT TO SERVE A PURPOSE By Benedict Carey, New York Times Juicy gossip moves so quickly - He did what? She has pictures? - that few people have time to cover their ears, even if they wanted to. "I heard a lot in the hallway, on the way to class," said Mady Miraglia, 35, a high school history teacher in Los Gatos, Calif., speaking about a previous job, where she got a running commentary from fellow teachers on the sexual peccadilloes and classroom struggles of her colleagues. "To be honest, it made me feel better as a teacher to hear others being put down," she said. "I was out there on my own, I had no sense of how I was doing in class, and the gossip gave me some connection. And I felt like it gave me status, knowing information, being on the inside." Gossip has long been dismissed by researchers as little more than background noise, blather with no useful function. But some investigators now say that gossip should be central to any study of group interaction. People find it irresistible for good reason: Gossip not only helps clarify and enforce the rules that keep people working well together, studies suggest, but it circulates crucial information about the behavior of others that cannot be published in an office manual. As often as it sullies reputations, psychologists say, gossip offers a foothold for newcomers in a group and a safety net for group members who feel in danger of falling out. "There has been a tendency to denigrate gossip as sloppy and unreliable" and unworthy of serious study, said David Sloan Wilson, a professor of biology and anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and the author of "Darwin's Cathedral," a book on evolution and group behavior. "But gossip appears to be a very sophisticated, multifunctional interaction which is important in policing behaviors in a group and defining group membership." When two or more people huddle to share inside information about another person who is absent, they are often spreading important news, and enacting a mutually protective ritual that may have evolved from early grooming behaviors, some biologists argue. Long-term studies of Pacific Islanders, American middle-school children and residents of rural Newfoundland and Mexico, among others, have confirmed that the content and frequency of gossip are universal: people devote anywhere from a fifth to two-thirds or more of their daily conversation to gossip, and men appear to be just as eager for the skinny as women. Sneaking, lying and cheating among friends or acquaintances make for the most savory material, of course, and most people pass on their best nuggets to at least two other people, surveys find. This grapevine branches out through almost every social group and it functions, in part, to keep people from straying too far outside the group's rules, written and unwritten, social scientists find. In one recent experiment, Dr. Wilson led a team of researchers who asked a group of 195 men and women to rate their approval or disapproval of several situations in which people talked behind the back of a neighbor. In one, a rancher complained to other ranchers that his neighbor had neglected to fix a fence, allowing cattle to wander and freeload. The report was accurate, and the students did not disapprove of the gossip. But men in particular, the researchers found, strongly objected if the rancher chose to keep mum about the fence incident. "Plain and simple he should have told about the problem to warn other ranchers," wrote one study participant, expressing a common sentiment that, in this case, a failure to gossip put the group at risk. "We're told we're not supposed to gossip, that our reputation plummets, but in this context there may be an expectation that you should gossip: you're obligated to tell, like an informal version of the honor code at military academies," Dr. Wilson said. This rule-enforcing dynamic is hardly confined to the lab. For 18 months, Kevin Kniffin, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, tracked the social interactions of a university crew team, about 50 men and women who rowed together in groups of four or eight. Dr. Kniffin said he was still analyzing his research notes. But a preliminary finding, he said, was that gossip levels peaked when the team included a slacker, a young man who regularly missed practices or showed up late. Fellow crew members joked about the slacker's sex life behind his back and made cruel cracks about his character and manhood, in part because the man's shortcoming reflected badly on the entire team. "As soon as this guy left the team, the people were back to talking about radio, food, politics, weather, those sorts of things," Dr. Kniffin said. "There was very little negative gossip." Given this protective group function, gossiping too little may be at least as risky as gossiping too much, some psychologists say. After all, scuttlebutt is the most highly valued social currency there is. While humor and story telling can warm any occasion, a good scoop spreads through a room like an illicit and irresistible drug, passed along in nods and crooked smiles, in discreet walks out to the balcony, the corridor, the powder room. Knowing that your boss is cheating on his wife, or that a sister-in-law has a drinking problem or a rival has benefited from a secret trust fund may be enormously important, and in many cases change a person's behavior for the better. "We all know people who are not calibrated to the social world at all, who if they participated in gossip sessions would learn a whole lot of stuff they need to know and can't learn anywhere else, like how reliable people are, how trustworthy," said Sarah Wert, a psychologist at Yale. "Not participating in gossip at some level can be unhealthy, and abnormal." Talking out of school may also buffer against low-grade depressive moods. In one recent study, Dr. Wert had 84 college students write about a time in their lives when they felt particularly alienated socially, and also about a memory of being warmly accepted. After finishing the task, Dr. Wert prompted the participants to gossip with a friend about a mutual acquaintance, as she filmed the exchanges. Those who rated their self-esteem highly showed a clear pattern: they spread good gossip when they felt accepted and a more derogatory brand when they felt marginalized. The gossip may involve putting someone else down to feel better by comparison. Or it may simply be a way to connect with someone else and share insecurities. But the end result, she said, is often a healthy relief of social and professional anxiety. Ms. Miraglia, the high school teacher, said that in her previous job she found it especially comforting to hear about more senior teachers' struggle to control difficult students. "It was my first job, and I felt overwhelmed, and to hear someone say, 'There's no control in that class' about another teacher, that helped build my confidence," she said. She said she also heard about teachers who made inappropriate comments to students about sex, a clear violation of school policy and professional standards. Adept gossipers usually sense which kinds of discreet talk are most likely to win acceptance from a particular group. For example, a closely knit corporate team with clear values - working late hours, for instance - will tend to embrace a person who gripes in private about a colleague who leaves early and shun one who complains about the late nights. By contrast, a widely dispersed sales force may lap up gossip about colleagues, but take it lightly, allowing members to work however they please, said Eric K. Foster, a scholar at the Institute for Survey Research at Temple University in Philadelphia, who recently published an analysis of gossip research. It is harder to judge how gossip will move through groups that are split into factions, like companies with divisions that are entirely independent, Dr. Foster said. "In these situations, it is the person who gravitates into a intermediate position, making connections between the factions, who controls the gossip flow and holds a lot of power," he said. Such people can mask devious intentions, spread false rumors and manipulate others for years, as anyone who has worked in an organization for a long time knows. But to the extent that healthy gossip has evolved to protect social groups, it will also ultimately expose many of those who cheat and betray. Any particularly nasty gossip has an author or authors, after all, and any functioning gossip network builds up a memory. So do the people who are tuned in to the network. In one 2004 study, psychologists had college students in Ohio fill out questionnaires, asking about the best gossip they had heard in the last week, the last month and the last year. The students then explained in writing what they learned by hearing the stories. Among the life lessons: "Infidelity will eventually catch up with you," "Cheerful people are not necessarily happy people" and "Just because someone says they have pictures of something doesn't mean they do." None of which they had learned in class.

"Just what we need in San Francisco - another street fair for gay perverts!" I'm sure a lot of church ladies stuck in traffic say the same thing, but for me, I wish we could just shut down the streets and party EVERY Sunday. Why not, we already have Folsom Fair, Dore Alley (AKA Up Your Alley), Castro Fair, Easter in the Park, Pink Saturday, two days of Pride, Love Parade, Halloween, pre-Halloween, pre-pre-Halloween, and that's just the gay-oriented street fairs! When I worked at Naked Sword, I started taking pictures at the street fairs to offer something free to entice visitors to pay for the "real" content. Since I started running Lavender Lounge full time a couple years ago, I've taken so many beautiful photos of sexy men at street fairs, that the Paparazzi Pix section of Lavender Lounge has become one of the most popular areas of the site. There are so many super hot guys walking around with their shirts off at events like Folsom Fair that would never consider posing for a "porn website", but they seem to have no problem smiling for the camera on the street! (Shhh, don't tell them this is a porn site!) If they pull out their dick, naturally I'll shoot it, but if they don't, that's fine, too. A face, a nipple, a treasure trail, any body part can look sexy on the right guy at the right moment. At each street fair, I get at least a couple dick shots, and sometimes even a little more action. But mostly, I just shoot cute guys showing off their sculpted chests and bulging biceps. Beefy and furry chests are preferred, but I've shot all sorts of guys with that indescribable "it" factor. Maybe it's just me, but I think that is much sexier that that same old closeup of the underside of a dick going into an ass you've seen in gay porn movies over and over again. I spent this past Sunday at the newest gay tourist attraction in San Francisco, Hairrison Street Fair. Yes, that is how it's spelled because the festival is "the world's largest bear celebration" and it's all about the fur. The term "bear" is still relatively new in connection with gay erotic imagery. In a certain way you could say the interest in bear culture is a backlash against the eraly gay porn cliche of young, smooth, blond twinks. Yeah, yeah, brotherhood, community, blah, blah, blah. The truth is the gay baby boomers are getting older and America in general is getting fatter, so why bother shaving your chest to keep up with an image you can't maintain? Like Retardo the Wonderfuck says, "Who knew sexy could come in X-large?" Members of the Lavender Lounge VIP Room can view my 320 photos from the second annual Hairrision Street Fair as well as my coverage of past Folsom Fairs, Castro Fairs, Pride festivals, etc. If you like those photos, you'll also like the Muscle Bear Cub section and the Belly Worship section!

This interview with one of my pornstar homeboys, Tony Bishop, came from my friends at ManNet.com. I met Tony Bishop through Sean Masters' "Powermasters" events at the Powerhouse last fall. Tony would always show up looking cute as a button at Sean's one-Thursday-a-month parties that almost always came very close to getting the place shut down. I knew Tony had done some movies for Factory Video and even one for Falcon, but being the snob I am, he always remembered me more often than I remembered him. (When you're pre-Altzheimers, it's never too early to start learning excuses for forgetfullness. Now where was I? Oh yeah, Tony Bishop.) I see Tony Bishop around town all the time, and it's great to know that porn stars do have other lives and careers besides whoring on camera. Having only seen him in bars where you're not supposed to show dick, it wasn't until the clothing optional Bad Boys Pool Party this past spring that I got to see Tony Bishop's most interesting feature - his tattooed penis! (see below) Ouch! It hurts to think of it! Here are a couple my photos of gay porn star Tony Bishop, but the rest are in the VIP Room. And check out his movies at Gay Video Cafe, Naked Sword or MaleFlixxx.tv. PROFILE - Porn Newcomer Tony Bishop - PROFILE Tony Bishop E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Web: http://www.TonyBishopXXX.com 01 - Video Name: Tony Bishop 02 - Birthday: July 1980 -- Cancer Astrologic Sign :) 03 - Birthplace: Sandpoint, Idaho ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandpoint ) 04 - Current Home: San Francisco ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco ) 05 - Marital Status: Single and looking. 06 - Working on: Getting ripped abs ... however, that is always a work in progress. 07 - The last good porn video I saw was: "Cross Country" ( http://CrossCountryTheMovie.com ). 08 - The last good mainstream movie I saw was: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" ( http://ChocolateFactoryMovie.com ) -- love Johnny Depp ( http://JohnnyDeppFan.com ). 09 - What's in your music player right now: Currently listening to Kelly Clarkson on the radio ( http://KellyClarksonWeb.com ). I'm a big radio person. Love variety and NPR ( http://NPR.org ). 10 - The book I've been reading is: "Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the Inside Out," Steven A. Shaw ( http://www.Fat-Guy.com ). 11 - Magazines I read: Newsweek ( http://Newsweek.com ), Out ( http://Out.com ), The Advocate ( http://Advocate.com ), Gourmet ( http://Gourmet.com ), and food magazines. 12 - Favorite porn performers: Chris Steele ( http://ChrisSteele.com ), Jason Ridge ( http://JasonRidge.com ), Carlos Morales ( http://Carlos-Morales.com ), Franco Santoro, J.D. Kollin ( http://profiles.yahoo.com/IndyKollin ) and Shane Rollins ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShaneRollins ). 13 - Favorite mainstream performers: Johnny Depp ( http://imdb.com/name/nm0000136 ), Tom Hanks ( http://imdb.com/name/nm0000158 ), Jody Foster ( http://imdb.com/name/nm0000149 ) and Madonna ( http://Madonna.com ). 14 - Favorite childhood memory: Playing in the dirt with my matchbox cars with my grandpa on the weekends. He would sit down with me and play "cars" with me and get all dirty and they my grandma would yell at him and my parents would yell at me for being all dirty. 15 - People always think I'm: Shy when they first meet me. 16 - Nobody knows I'm: A pastry chef or drive a motorcycle. 17 - If I could do it over I would: Have never started smoking. 18 - One thing I can't stand: Bad hygiene. 19 - If I could change one thing about myself: I like myself just the way I am. 20 - Major accomplishments: Moving to San Francisco and making it on my own. Graduating from college with a B.A. in psychology, Also have a degree as a pastry chef. 21 - Most humbling experience: I know this has happened but I don't recall any specifics right now! 22 - Prized possession: My motorcycle: A 2003 Yamaha V Star Custom 650 ( http://Yamaha-Motor.com/star ). 23 - Three words that describe me: Outgoing. Witty. Kinky. *** VIDEOGRAPHY - Tony Bishop - VIDEOGRAPHY *** -- "Bed Heads" ( http://www.AdonisPictures.com ) -- "CZ1: Blue Collar Butthole" ( http://RagingStallion.com ) -- "Driver" ( http://JocksStudios.com ) - Not yet released. -- "Getting It in the End" ( http://GettingItInTheEndTheMovie.com ) -- "Good Boys" ( http://FactoryVideos.com ) -- "ManPlay: MP-018" ( http://ManPlay.tv ) -- "Seedy" ( http://FactoryVideos.com ) -- "The Shaft" ( http://RagingStallion.com )

Even though my New Year's Resolution for 2005 was to "shoot more gay porn", I've been slacking all year and it's almost September. Thank god there are ambitious models out there who actually go out and pursue porn sites like Lavender Lounge looking for work. Jacob Slader contacted me that way in the spring and we did a really great photo session with him, but that was months ago. Last week a local guy named Angel contacted me through my Model Search page and from the photos he sent me, I knew he was just what I needed for Muscle Bear Cub. Angel is about 28, 6 feet tall and weighs 170. He's half Mexican and half Cuban, but was born in Spain and came to the States at 14. From his intitial email he says, "I'm versitile, love to suck, be fucked and fuck. I especially love ass-eatin', on both ends. Nothin' really works me like a hot-ass, well except for the guy who knows how to turn on my submissive button. When one can do that, all inhibition falls. My fetishes include nipple play-to-torture, being edged to screaming, outdoor sex, other latinos, underware, and "tricky"/"deceptive" sex. My interests lie in swimming, gymnastics, and moutaineering. And since you suggested that an applicant ask himself just how many guys would pay to see him, I'm more than certain that it is quite a few. Empiricle research seems to suggest quite a few. I'm not sure what "tricky/deceptive sex" means, but in person, he described his newfound appreciation for nipple play, and you'll see plenty in Angel's photo session in the VIP Room at Lavender Lounge. Enjoy.

"Tighten that asshole! Yeah! Suck on that big dick! Yeah!" Those famous lines from gay porn movies will probably be carved on Jeff Styker's tombstone. Who likes vintage gay porn? I do! I do! This week Falcon Studio is offering Jeff Stryker in his glory days on Pay Per View through the Falcon website. As it says, it's Jeff Stryker's "first pre-condom movie", or as Mark Adams refers to him, TLO - "The Large One". They didn't mention which movie, but it seems to me he may have done movies for other studios first. I may be wrong, cause the 80's are still a blur. If it's the one where he rides up on a dirt bike, then humps his leather jacket on the side of a hill, you are in for a big treat! No matter which movie they are referring to, Jeff Stryker is always Jeff Stryker. He's such an icon, he ought to have his own Saturday morning cartoon show. Oh wait, we still have those assholes running the show in Washington - don't even go there...

Raging Stallion is giving away FREE gay porn! Woo Hoo! Free Porn! They are running a special promotion for just the weekend of August 19 to 22, 2005 where if you buy any video, you get a free DVD of "Passport Exposed". "Exposed" is the behind the scenes making of Raging Stallion's hit movie "Passport to Paradise". Incidently, "Passport to Paradise", as well as a number of Raging Stallion movies, was shot at my friend's house up in Sonoma County, not in Central America as portrayed in the movie. But what the hell, it's a beautiful location and the movie is one of Chris Ward's favorite personal achievements, and you'd probably never know it unless I told you. Ah, the magic of gay porn Hollywood! And you know, if you are too late for this weekend's deadline to get the free video, I'll bet if you contact them and say you heard about it at Lavender Lounge, they might still give the free copy of "Passport Exposed". It's worth a try!

This photo of Jerry Douglas just arrived from the set of Buckshot's upcoming "Beyond Perfect". I think the caption reads, "Next year I'm going to WIN that Best Screenplay Award!" And by the way, that's Brad Patton's ass in the background. Is that ass beyond perfect, or what???! Colt Studio Group announced today that editing has begun on its latest Buckshot Productions feature, "Beyond Perfect", written and directed by award-winning writer/director Jerry Douglas, and the eagerly awaited production is moving rapidly toward its November direct mail and online release date. "Beyond Perfect" tells the tale of a pair of present-day lovers whose relationship is threatened when one discovers the other in the midst of an afternoon quickie with an anonymous trick. In the demanding roles of the two lovers, Buckshot Men Brad Patton and Jason Kingsley perform as they never have before, both dramatically and erotically. The third major role in the film, that of a couple counselor to whom they turn for help in salvaging their relationship, is played by legendary director Joe Gage in his first turn before the camera in several years. In a telephone interview, Douglas noted, "The great director Alfred Hitchcock always said that films are not made on the set, they are made in the editing room - and I have certainly felt that truth of that statement over and over again as I try to put this film together. For example, there is so much sizzling footage of the final scene between Brad and Jason that I could cut an hour-long sequence from that episode alone! This also holds true of the backroom bar scene that opens the film. We shot an entire day with eight principals and over a dozen extras, and what we captured that day is so good and so raunchy that it's very difficult to eliminate even a single shot. So I've clearly got my work cut out for me.