August 22, 2014
Watch: Gay-For-Pay Porn Actor Talks to Family About Career, Sexuality
Jason St. Amand READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Gay porn site Broke Straight Boys (NSFW) released a of a sort of documentary called "Diary of a Porn Star" that looks into the life of one of its models, Paul Canon, who is a gay-for-pay porn actor, Gawker points out.
In the 30-minute clip, which was posted to YouTube Monday, Canon returns to his family in Florida, he currently resides in Denver, to talk about his sexuality and porn career with his father, mother and two brothers.
His family seems to be accepting of his career but has issues with his sexuality.
Canon, 22, hates labels but says, "If I had to go by a Webster Dictionary definition, I guess I would be considered bisexual."
"To me, the reason why I don't like labels like that is [because] bisexuality has this negative connotation of being confused and I'm definitely not confused," he continued. "I know what I like; I definitely find women attractive but there certain aspects of men that I find attractive, which is not very confusing. I know what I want, I know what I like and that's that."
The actor's father and brothers argue about Canon's sexuality and that he's doing gay porn, so that means he must be gay.
"We do gay porn, it doesn't mean that we're gay," he tells his family.
Canon, who wears a t-shirt that reads "I'm not gay but $1,000 is $1,000," also talks about his 2010 drug overdose and how his family got through it.
Canon says he didn't even see another naked man until his first male-on-male scene two years ago.
The family doesn't talk much about Canon actually doing porn, but his mother does say she was online for about six hours once because she had a feeling her son was working in porn. She eventually found out he was.
"It was a big shock and a lot of anxiety, but it is what it is. He's going to do what he wants to do. If that's what it is, then I support him," she said.
Watch the SFW segment below: