Category Archive: Fan Feedback

The REAL “Dark Side” of Gay Porn

Posted by Michael on January 23rd, 2016

I just wanted to thank everyone who took the time to share a reply to my recent post defending the many “good” people working in the porn industry today. Many of you brought up some very interesting and thought-provoking points, and it’s such a refreshing change of pace to see an intelligent and civil conversation taking place about such a complex and controversial topic.

HarlemBrotha’s comment summed it up perfectly and really gets at the heart of the matter, in my opinion. The real issue here is that sexual desire and pornography, and to an even greater extent GAY sexuality and GAY pornography, are still repressed and severely stigmatized by mainstream society and it’s these anti-porn and anti-gay attitudes that create the REAL “dark side” of gay adult entertainment.

I have witnessed firsthand the ridicule, mockery, harassment, judgment, and even threats of violence suffered by porn performers, in many cases by their own so-called “fans” and GAY PEERS, and this ignorant behavior has caused more emotional damage and psychological harm than a dozen “sleazy” producers combined ever could.

When this anti-porn, anti-gay climate drives individuals to the desperate extreme of inflicting violent harm on themselves or others, it’s a hell of a lot easier to blame the “evil” producer than look in the mirror at the ignorance, harassment, and in some cases downright hostility and threats against these young men from their own families, friends, churches, and neighborhoods.

In the past, I’ve used the analogy of a hate crime. If a gay person gets beaten up or even killed as part of a hate crime by people who see that person leaving a gay club late at night, we wouldn’t blame the VICTIM for being gay, or the owner of the gay bar for providing a safe space for community and self-expression. The blame lies solely with the homophobic assholes who chose to gay-bash an innocent person.

In the same way, pornography itself is not the enemy here, but rather the pervasive ignorance and homophobia that even in the year 2016 makes parents disown their own children, casually condones and even celebrates violence against GLBT people, and breeds so much fear, insecurity, and self-hatred in so many young black men in particular that some feel driven to the extreme of either killing themselves or others when they are exposed.

I hate to paraphrase the popular NRA slogan, but the truth is that porn doesn’t destroy lives, PEOPLE do. And if you truly care about the well-being of your favorite “porn stars,” stop ridiculing them on social media or when you see them out at the clubs, quit exposing them to their friends and family when you see somebody you know, and most importantly, start speaking up to challenge the hypocritical “slut-shaming” and homophobia in your own communities.

The more normalized and accepted that homosexuality and pornography becomes in society, the fewer suicides, overdoses, and tragic murders we’ll have to read about involving “porn stars” and producers.
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In Defense of the “Good” Porn Producers

Posted by Michael on January 19th, 2016

The following post is something I’ve been wanting to get off my chest for awhile and ended up taking the form of a reply in the “comments” section of a popular urban gay porn blog which recently featured an article about the murder of another porn producer by a former model in which the blogger and several commenters once again seemed to imply – without any evidence or apparent compassion – that the producer was somehow to blame for his own brutal murder. Some even seemed to be rooting for the same thing to happen to me!

This was just the latest and most extreme version of a disturbing trend I’ve been noticing on various porn blogs and social media lately where porn producers and models are casually and in some cases viciously mocked, attacked, slandered, and judged with self-righteous contempt by the very same audience watching and enjoying our movies.

So the following are a few thoughts that I’ve been wanting to share for the past couple months, and just kind of boiled to the surface when I saw the calloused way some people were reacting to the tragic story of yet another porn producer’s senseless murder. I’m sure the people who most need to read this probably won’t ever see it, but I still wanted to get it off my chest and speak up in defense of the “good” producers out there:

I agree that this is a conversation worth having, and shady business dealings like those you describe should be exposed and opposed by consumers, models, AND other producers.

But I don’t think all of this vague talk about anonymous “evil” producers does anyone any good or takes any concrete or positive steps toward accomplishing these goals. All it ends up doing is painting the entire adult entertainment industry with an unfairly broad brush and perpetuating a wildly inaccurate stereotype of the adult industry as some kind of seedy and semi-criminal underworld of greedy, predatory producers and drug-addicted, suicidal models. Which I’m sure is perfectly fine for many of your readers, since this only makes it easier to justify their regular consumption of stolen/pirated content and total lack of financial support for the porn studios they regularly watch. But I digress.

There are dishonest and shady people in every business, and the adult industry is no exception. But in the nearly eight years I’ve been working in this industry (starting out as a lover of good porn much like yourself and most of your readers), I have yet to meet anyone even close to resembling the almost comically villainous caricatures regularly described on this blog. The vast  majority of people I’ve met in this industry are honest, hard-working, and shockingly “normal” people who have a passion for porn and are just trying to make a living like anyone else.

One of my very first friends and mentors in the industry (the Marketing Director for Badpuppy) was actually a straight and married “Soccer Mom” with two teenage kids, and the sweetest, kindest person you could ever meet. Another friend and mentor was a gay college professor who started his site as a side hobby and over time turned it into a successful business after a lot of sleepless nights and hard work. Most of us are not the ruthless “pimps” you’d think based on this blog, and we try our best to treat our models and business associates with the same honesty and respect we’d expect in return.

Which is why I think you should start putting your money where your mouth is and calling out these shady porn studios by name. Instead of offering the disclaimer that you’re only talking about SOME but not ALL porn producers, why not be specific and tell us who you’re talking about? Who EXACTLY are these “evil” producers and who are the “good” ones? And are you willing to boycott these studios both on this blog and as a porn viewer?

And just to be clear, I’m talking about responsibly researched and fact-based reporting, not simply repeating unsubstantiated gossip or hearsay from delusional Internet trolls or disgruntled and dishonest ex-models with chips on their shoulders. If your allegations are accurate, they more than likely won’t sue, and even if they do, what better opportunity to actually PROVE and EXPOSE the unethical behavior described in this post?

This clarity and specificity will ultimately be better for EVERYONE – viewers, models, AND the “good” producers who treat their models with  honesty, fairness, and respect, and don’t like seeing their entire industry constantly being maligned and attacked on porn blogs like this.

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Cast Your Votes For The Best of BBA 2015!

Posted by Michael on January 11th, 2016

You’ve seen my own personal picks for the best scenes from last year. Now it’s YOUR TURN to let me know what you think by choosing YOUR favorite models and scenes from 2015! You’ll be able to see the voting results in live time to compare your own personal favorites with the rest of BBA’s members and fans.

To keep things as fair and accurate as possible, you’re only allowed to vote once, so please take your time and choose your answers carefully. I’ve made a special exception for the “Favorite Black-Only Scene” category since there are so many scenes to choose from in that category. You can choose your top THREE scenes in that particular category.

While I’ve included the scenes starring Knockout and Staxx, I decided not to include them in the model categories since they’re special guest “porn stars” and I didn’t think it would be fair to put them up against BBA’s regular amateur models.

If you feel like explaining or defending any of your choices, please feel free to share your thoughts as comments on this blog entry. I’d love to hear what you think! If you have any ideas or requests for additional polls, just let me know and I’ll consider adding them.

If you have an active BBA membership and/or BBA credits, please also take a few minutes to “like” your favorite BBA models and scenes (one of the added features on the newly redesigned site). Especially your older favorites, since the newer models and scenes tend to get more visibility and attention and I’d like the listings of most popular scenes to eventually become a more accurate reflection of all the scenes over time.

I hope you have fun picking out your favorites and reminiscing with me about the past year!

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Michael Galletta Counts Down BBA’s Ten Best Scenes of 2015

Posted by Michael on January 10th, 2016

Every year I’m asked by fans how I can possibly meet or exceed the high standard set by the previous year, and every year it feels like an impossible task.

After a year that had introduced Isaiah and his shocking “gay for pay” journey leading all the way up to him finally giving up his ass, the long-awaited “reunion” between D-Rel and Suspense, and Freaky J‘s “epidemic” gay porn debut, I thought for sure there was nowhere to go but DOWN heading into the new year.

Now that I’m looking back at the new models and scenes from this past year, and planning for the new year to come, I’m relieved and proud to be able to say that 2015 was almost certainly BBA’s best year so far!

For starters, I can’t recall any prior year that has introduced *so many* stand-out performers who so quickly won us over and earned their spots among BBA’s most popular performers. Of course the epitome of this was our new star Apollo, whose striking good looks, flawless muscular body, and eagerness to please propelled him to BBA stardom practically overnight. The kind of performer who only comes along once every decade, not a day goes by that I don’t thank the porn gods for sending him BBA’s way 😉 !

If you’d told me earlier last year that 2015 would also introduce models to RIVAL Apollo’s popularity and charm, I would have said you were crazy! Yet somehow the year also miraculously included the discoveries of Blake Bishop and Ross, both of whom will no doubt give Apollo a run for his money in the vote for “favorite new model” of the year!

Whether it was Noah returning after over two years, or Rico finally getting fucked again and like never before, 2015 also saw the surprising returns of several much-missed fan favorites that many of us (myself included) had all but given up hope of ever seeing again!

Of course the MUST-SEE highlights of the year, and the scenes that had everyone talking, were the “taking down” of not just one but TWO of black gay porn’s most attractive and popular “tops”!

Which brings me to my list of BBA’s Ten Best Scenes of 2015, the scenes which for a variety of reasons explained below are the ones that kept me “cumming” back for repeat viewings again and again, and stood out from the crowded pack as my proudest achievements and personal favorites:

(In Descending Order)

 #1. All Bets Are Off

All Bets Are OffI’ve been pursuing “strict tops” for over six years, and I have honestly never encountered anyone as stubbornly resistant to the idea of “bottoming” on camera as Staxx. I have *over 100 emails* saved between me and Staxx to remind me of the stressful, exhausting, and seemingly hopeless pursuit of one of black gay porn’s most breathtaking but tragically “off-limits” asses, the vast majority consisting of Staxx bluntly informing me in no uncertain terms that him getting fucked on camera was NEVER going to happen!

All of that makes this one of the sweetest porn “conquests” I’ve ever achieved. The sexy basketball player’s highly-prized bubble-butt didn’t come easy or cheap, but damn, was it worth every penny! Just seeing ANY dick finally enter that ass would have been epic enough, but the fact that the scene also included the cocky “top” strapped to the bed, yelling and cursing and growling as those glorious twin globes finally got split open and plundered by Knockout’s TREE TRUNK of a dick makes this a historic “take-down” porn classic that I will watch over and over again for the rest of my life.

Easily my proudest achievement of the year, and my personal favorite out of the Atlanta trilogy!

 #2. His First Straight Boy

His First Straight BoyFilmed as a kind of “bonus” scene from my Atlanta visit and greatly underestimated by me at the time it was filmed, this scene turned out to be many viewers’ favorite, and one of my personal favorites as well! Hot as they were, none of Isaiah’s previous “bottoming” efforts gave us any indication that he had this performance within him, simmering just under the surface. Isaiah will probably always be somewhat stoic and stiff, but this was definitely the closest to “unleashed” we’ve seen him so far – and boy, was it a sight to behold! I’ve already watched this scene more times than I’d like to admit, and the sexy sounds of Isaiah finally grunting “FUCK THAT ASS!” over and over while Knockout’s huge, RAW dick aggressively pounds his juicy bubble-butt makes me bust every time. Of course seeing Isaiah return the favor by plunging his own massive, curved dick in and out of Knockout’s tight, “top-only” ass makes this an instant “flip-flop” classic that you truly have to see to believe!

#3. Straight Boys Taste Better

Straight Boys Taste BetterIt’s not often that a relatively brief oral-only scene earns almost unanimously enthusiastic reviews from BBA’s viewers and lands a spot on this list. But this scene’s simplicity and spontaneity captures “gay for pay” porn at its purest and most authentic best. Without ever once using the big dick for which he’s well-known, Blake Bishop still managed to seize our attention and prove he’s a confident and capable performer with a very bright future in this business. But it was Ross’s comically expressive reactions to his first blowjob and rimjob from another guy, unfolding in close to real time toward an unplanned and unforgettable climax, that made this one of those rare and special scenes that had us stroking our dicks and laughing out loud at the same time.

#4. Apollo: The Next Level

Apollo: The Next LevelAnother oral-only scene where the chemistry between the models and hotness of the action surpassed many of the year’s hardcore scenes and proved you don’t always need a hard dick thrusting in and out of an ass for a scene to be worth MULTIPLE “nutts.” Even though Apollo had already shown flashes of potential in his earlier scenes, it wasn’t until this scene that he proved himself to be a true STAR. The chemistry between Apollo and Saint – both ex-Army guys and fathers of young sons – was off the charts and the scene treated us to some of the SLOPPIEST, WETTEST, and HOTTEST dick-sucking and ass-eating of the year!

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Guess That Ass!

Posted by Michael on December 15th, 2015

BBA 3.0’s “Unofficial” Debut

Posted by Michael on October 4th, 2015

I’m excited to announce that the new website is FINALLY here! We’re still busy making some adjustments and adding a couple more features, and some of you might occasionally still see the old site and/or experience issues logging in (please contact me if you do), but most of you should at least now be able to check out the newly redesigned site.

I know you’ll probably have a lot of questions, so I wanted to take this opportunity to point out some of the website’s new features, explain the new and expanded membership options, and answer any questions or concerns you might have in the comments.

In addition to a more modern look and user-friendly design that I hope you will like, there are now updated model profiles for EVERY model, including a helpful list of every scene in which that model has appeared. You can now search the site based on your favorite models and categories, “like” your favorite models and scenes, leave comments on the individual scenes, and even create a personalized list of your favorite models and scenes for quick and convenient viewing.

You’ll also notice that there are some new options for enjoying BBA’s content:

A membership gives you UNLIMITED ACCESS to watch/stream our entire collection of over 250 original, high-quality scenes in multiple video speeds up to 720p HD quality – including all of our older, pre-HD scenes (well over 100)! It’s recommended for viewers who enjoy a variety of models and scenes and prefer to browse and consume liberally, any time and on any PC, MAC, or mobile device. Memberships also include access to exclusive new content added on a regular basis, as well as a 20% discount on downloads and cloud stash.

Buying credits is a new option that allows you to download your favorite BBA scenes or “stash” them to our cloud and come back to enjoy them any time you’d like. Credits are recommended for viewers interested in keeping scenes FOREVER, even when you don’t have a membership. They are also ideal for those who only want to see a specific model or scene. You can buy as many credits as you want and then spend them whenever you’d like. Your credits never expire and your credit card is never re-billed.

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Website Update: The Return of Rico

Posted by Michael on September 13th, 2015

The Return of Rico
Not a week goes by that I don’t hear from viewers asking if Rico will ever return. And until a few days ago, the answer has always been an almost definite “no.” Not long after he participated in the BBA Christmas Party back in 2012, Rico got married and moved to a different city, and even though we’ve stayed in touch off and on for the past three years, the chances of him ever coming back seemed extremely unlikely.

Unlike a lot of the models who do a few scenes and then never return for whatever reason, Rico has maintained a surprisingly strong and vocal fan following over the years, especially with viewers who prefer their black men with a little more meat on their bones.

So when Rico recently contacted me completely out of the blue, telling me that he was in some financial trouble and asking if I had any work, I knew I had to seize this potentially brief window of opportunity to work with him again!

Rico and Saint
For Rico’s long-awaited “comeback” scene, I decided to reunite him with Saint for the very first time since they met at the BBA Christmas Party almost THREE YEARS AGO. Since their interactions were somewhat limited that night, I couldn’t wait to see these two pick up where they left off and finish what they started back then.

There’s close to a FULL HOUR of shocking, stroke-worthy action that includes tongue-kissing, dick-sucking, and ass-eating, plus Rico bravely trying to TAKE DICK again for only the second time in his life – and this time without a condom!
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Guess That Dick!

Posted by Michael on July 16th, 2015

Guess That Ass! & Blog Catch-Up

Posted by Michael on July 8th, 2015

Hard as it is to believe, we’re already quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of the BBA Tumblr and I couldn’t be any more proud of what Montez has done with the place. If you still haven’t checked it out or not stopped by in awhile, please take a look and show your support by following us and re-blogging our growing collection of BBA-related images, gifs, video clips, etc.

Before They Were Stars, Generation Next, From Top to Bottom, and The Evolution of…. are just a few of the hot and entertaining series shared exclusively on the BBA Tumblr.

Just today we started a fun new series that was suggested to us by one of BBA’s viewers, and we’re calling it Guess That Ass!

Montez kicked things off with a tough one that even had me stumped for a minute, LOL. So take a minute to go check it out and put your BBA expertise to the test 😉 !

Some of you might also have noticed that I’ve been posting a lot of blog comments over the past couple days. One of the projects I’m currently working on for the recently announced website renovation is requiring some down-time while my main computer is busy. To make the most of my time while I’m waiting, I’ve been trying to catch up on replying to some of your blog comments from the past several months. (more…)

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Important Announcement Re: Website Redesign

Posted by Michael on July 7th, 2015

I just wanted to let everyone know about one of several exciting things going on behind the scenes lately.

Long story short, I’m currently in the process of giving the website a MAJOR and LONG overdue makeover. Even though this website redesign has been demanding a ton of extra time and hard work, and will continue to do so until the project is finished, I’m really excited about the possibilities and confident that it’s going to lead to some significant and much-needed improvements to the website’s overall organization, appearance, navigability, and ease of use.

Some of these improvements will include:

  • 100% mobile-compatibility, with smooth and seamless video streaming of EVERY scene across ALL browsers and mobile devices! This should also fix the recent problems that some of you with MacBooks and ChromeBooks have been experiencing lately

  • Updated model profiles for ALL of BBA’s models (finally, LOL!)

  • Improved search/filter options making it easier to find your favorite scenes according to things like model name, model type, scene category, content/themes, etc.

  • A more modern and mobile-friendly appearance/design

  • A greater variety of membership options, including a pay-per-scene alternative to the monthly subscription

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