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The biggest fear many straight men would be thought to have is the implication that performing for a gay audience would make them gay. Yet, these men view their explicit videos & pictures as simple business transactions, serving their customers what they want. They really aren’t too bothered by any stray homophobic comments since they’re secure in the fact that they’re straight. Carter summed it up by saying, “I don’t need to prove anything to anyone.
This new movement of heterosexuality moves away from the ultra-fragile masculinity that dictates that anything even remotely perceived to be gay impugns one’s identity as a straight man.