Baitbus.com is a website specialising in gay pornography of the gay-for-pay type, which claims to bring "straight boys over to the dark side". It has been described as "part

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and part fantasy that plays with the contingency of straightness and straight male identity in particular" by

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Description

A typical Baitbus plot usually involves a male, seemingly a heterosexual stranger, being confronted by the cameraman. The cameraman typically talks to the other male, convincing him to get into the eponymous minibus, and receive a sum of money for having sex with a woman on camera. At some point in the proceedings, the man is blindfolded and another man, typically – but not always – acting as the

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, proceeds to have oral sex with the other male.Preview.
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/ref> however, when the heterosexual man is offered a larger quantity of money to continue his sex act with the

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, he reluctantly agrees. He is then filmed having

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and administering

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s, before being pushed out of the minibus. This, however, is recognized as mere depiction since there are similar acts in real life that led its perpetrator to be registered as a sex offender.

Assessement

Shannon Gilreath writes that, on websites such as Baitbus.com,

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is thus sexualised, with heterosexuals on the top and gay men on the bottom. There is also the suggestion that it reflects the discourses of an antagonistic heterosexuality due to the outrage and disgust on the part of depicted in the encounter. Another reading also notes that it reflects the

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gay male, prostituting straight men, making them abject in ways usually practiced on women.

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External links

Baitbus website
Gay male pornography websites Male bisexuality in fiction American erotica and pornography websites {{porn-website-stub

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