esrosedotblog

If you hang out on the gay internet, it is inevitable that you will encounter the Studlebrity.

This is often a middle ground between soft porn and personal blog where a good looking young man displays his life for all to see. Or what he wants them to see.

I admit to some regular studlebrity visits on a daily basis.

What is the appeal here? What is their motivation? How does it work.

There is a DVD called Studlebrity which approaches these questions in a half baked way and that was today's movie.

I don't think it had much more than interviews with these guys which you could find on their very own sites.

There are a few talking head analysts who comment lamely on the scene.

What it boils down to is more prolonged eye candy shots for the voyeur. Me.

There is a phenomena that is interesting and that is where two of these guys met and got together. I watch one such couple now and it is interesting to see whether the public nature of their activities will affect their off screen time.

Of course, this is hard to evaluate and so, while I am mildly curious, I just watch and enjoy what I see and move on to more serious fare. It is mostly fluff but at some level these guys are role models for young gay men. But we have learned that there are role models and then there is real life and being a celebrity can be a kind of prison. More of this kind of examination might help this DVD which I will not see again.

The guy in the picture is Ethan Hethcote who ended up with another blogger Mark E. Miller and now they do a joint vlog on Mark Miller's blog site.

They are the most interesting couple that I have seen so far. It has been fun to follow the growth of their relationship.

Years ago I watched a similar blog called Chaos in Austin which is still alive but more as a porn site. I enjoyed it very much. They didn't mention this pioneer "photo journal". Perhaps for the porn-reason. A 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: film, gay films, gay life