Exploring and Exposing Gay Sensuality

Bareback is a slang word used to describe the act of sexual penetration without the use of a condom. The term gay barebacking originates from the equestrian term “bareback” that connotes to the practice of riding a horse without a saddle (which represents ‘protection’). This often refers to the deliberate choice of not using condoms. The 1970’s and early 1980’s, pre-condom era, barebacking is the standard situation in gay pornography. However, its prime time was in the early 90’s where studios started and increased their focus on this category and even built porn stars solely for it. These films were booming and selling like pancakes. A San Francisco porn studio has been producing bareback films since 1999, this only shows how lucrative barebacking is. Mainstream studios that are forced by law to use condoms in their anal sex shootings even go extra miles in blocking and editing the vision of the condom just to make the viewers imagine that the couple is not using any protection, producing the idea of a bareback. Some directors became very devoted in practicing and mastering the “condomless” protected sex scenes.

Due to the increasing number of HIV or AIDS infected male porn models, barebacking amongst men was almost entirely removed as a category, but with the secret weapon of the studios and the directors of producing the perfect shot, the condomless anal sex has survived. One of my friends even said: “Gay barebacking is one of my all-time favorite thing to do. Hell, I think it just might be my only favorite thing to do! Sure I enjoy getting my nipples and dick sucked, my hole rimmed and all, but damn this barebacking, nothing beats it! You would probably ask me, why? It’s unsafe, is it not? I say, what’s not to love? We all only live once, so make the most out of it. It’s pure pleasure! Penetrating a hot tight juicy asshole and feeling all that warmth just tickles me tingles!”

There is quite a few disadvantages in doing this activity, it may infect you if you engage in sex with a person with HIV or the likes and you may die with these diseases, and vice versa, you may infect other people if you are a carrier and penetrate them. However, there are also some of the favored stimulation one may acquire with barebacking: it simply gives off a larger amount of enjoyment rather than having a condom getting in the way. It leads to better intimacy level between the men having sex. This activity is more spontaneous and straight right into the action. Given that both men are not infected with any sexually transmitted diseases, then barebacking is definitely safe and it somehow falls under the category of “safe sex.” It may promote monogamy as it will teach the same-sex couple to be faithful to not acquire sickness. Gay bareback also strengthens the emotional ties between a man and his partner.