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In Their Room: Berlin was released on the first anniversary of I Want Your Love, which Naked Sword also made available for free on its website. “One of the things that appealed to us about working with Travis was that he was bridging those gaps in a thoughtful, artistic way.” “We've never thought of gay porn as separate from gay culture, because sex isn't separate from culture,” he told the Daily Dot via e-mail. His company-which got its start in mainstream media designing interactive websites for Eidos Interative and E-trade-has always tried to bridge the gap between the mainstream gay world and porn. The film is part of Matthews’ In Their Room series, and is a follow-up to 2013’s I Want Your Love (NSFW), also directed by Mathews and produced by Naked Sword.Īdult film studios dabbling in the independent film industry is “not common at all, but maybe it should be,” says Naked Sword CEO Tim Valenti. Leather Bar, In Their Room: Berlin is a “quasi-documentary” that takes an intimate look at the lives of gay Berliners, featuring interviews with them in their homes. With their latest project, In Their Room: Berlin(NSFW), they’re crossing over into the mainstream indie film industry-and they’re streaming the film in full for free on their website.ĭirected by Travis Mathews, who co-directed James Franco’s infamous “gay porn” film Interior. Porn website Naked Sword, which touts itself as “the HBO of gay porn,” is doing a combination of the two. Others are dabbling in other sectors of the industry, such as camming or custom clips. Some are offering their content online for free, in the hopes of eventually attracting paid subscribers.
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Now that free tube sites like PornHub and RedTube have become synonymous with Internet smut, the porn industry has been scrambling to find ways to get people to actually start paying for porn. This article originally appeared on The Daily Dot.