If you believe in fate, it is easy to say the porn star career of Nicholas Iacona (aka Joey Stefano) was inevitable because of his backside.
His looks were never called into question, and his body, while not “gym-centric,” was a pleasure to look at; however, his looks and his body do not account for his derriere. Stefano’s backside was large, curvaceous, and ready for those who could handle it.
In the first video I saw him in, a wretched piece of schlock called Sweet in the Bootie, Stefano is taking a bath and looking at a gentleman in a shower. The shower boy has a rather large penis, and to entice him to come out, Stefano turns on his stomach and sticks his posterior in the air.
The water barely covers the mounds of backside flesh and when Stefano spreads his cheeks, his ass resembles a fleshy ripe mango. Stefano plays with his ass a bit, looks at the big penis man, and returns to his ass. The gentleman is properly aroused and joins Stefano in a coupling that is only worth remembering because Stefano’s butt takes all of the dick.
Good looks and a plump, mango-like ass, however, do not make a porn star (they help of course). Something else added to Stefano’s presence on screen. Put simply, Stefano was the randy boy next door. Granted, that is the archetype for all porn stars, but for Stefano it was true because he turned to porn to have sex with attractive men.
Charles Isherwood, in Wonder Bread and Ecstasy: The Life and Death of Joey Stefano, quotes the following line from Chi Chi LaRue (porn director, who is credited with discovering Stefano):
“He [Stefano] would rattle off lists of names of guys he’d want to have sex with…they were mostly guys from way back, like Jack Wrangler, Cole Carpenter, Eric Manchester, and Chad Douglas.”
If Stefano was not attracted to his partner, that would show on the screen, and there are many Stefano videos that show his complete boredom. Yet when he had the hots, Stefano was centered on pleasure and he had no fear about showing it.
In Jerry Douglas’s More of a Man, an opus to sex, religion, and political activism (one character is an ACT-UP member), Stefano plays Vito, a closet case who searches for love in all the wrong places. Vito’s first encounter is in a restroom and Stefano’s sexuality melts the screen. When Stefano engages in fellatio, he does not do the quick short-suck. He takes his time to suck the dick that is offered him. He kisses it, laps it a bit, then ever so slowly works his way to the base.
When he first gets fucked, Stefano is hard and has the look of unadulterated pain and pleasure — the look that all bottoms know — a look that is not scripted, and it can’t be acted by our best thespians. It was this look that made him stand out because the look acknowledged what gay porn so rarely does: pleasure.
In the world of gay porn, a world that glorifies the representation of gay sex, there is a trend to mythologize the work of the top, while the bottoms are seen, at best, as two-bit players. Necessary to the world, but not the main attraction.
The porn stars who earn the box covers and make the most dollars are marketed tops. Tops who would never dare to show any interest in their partners unless to say how they want the butt they are invading “nice and tight.” We are given the allure of the top (which is actually the allure of the straight man, but that is for another time), and like compliant sheep, we follow.
Every so often, however, a gay sex performer knocks us off our sheep backsides and reminds us that sexuality, at its most powerful, is not about absolute lines between top and bottom. These performers show us that sexuality is about desire and connection, and the obliteration of contrived lines.
Joey Stefano’s performances asked us not to be sheep.
That ever lived? I don’t know about that, but it did prompt me to pull out my copy of On The Rocks, a video that includes a hot three-way between Matt Gunther, ubertop Jeff Stryker, and uberbottom Joey Stefano. As I watched the scene again, I was reminded why Joey has passed into the realm of porn icons. Truly, Joey was a top in a bottom’s body — content to rule from below as his natural right. Knowingly or not, the video plays off this energy. Stryker plays the classic top and fucks them both to climax, but Joey is the aggressor as the action unfolds. As he approaches Stryker and leans in with a confident gaze, he asks, “So, how come you never kiss guys in your films?” Joey gets a nibble of Stryker’s pouty, sneering lips, and just so there’s no doubt who’s drawing the most energy into the scene, Joey shoots twice — first and last.
The code phrase here, the key to the secret, is “contrived.” Erotic attitudes, erotic skills, role play are all culturally conditioned, which is to say “contrived.” Cultivated, in short.
Anal erotic sensitivity can be cultivated. But we live in a culture that attempts to obliterate anal eroticism by associating it with feeling of guilt and shame. That cultural goal is fairly easy to achieve because the anus retains and excretes feces, which is more offensive than urine, it anal sensitive is more easily repressed than dick pleasure, which is necessary to procreation as anal pleasure is not. Nor does is the pleasure of listening to a well-performed violin concerto contribute anything to procreation. Socio-phychology 101. No Charge.
Hey - I’da fucked him.
Me too darl! Twice!
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I knew Joey personally, and he had a wonderful, charming side to him. He called me from Philly shortly before his tragic death and told me how well he was doing and how happy he was. His death came as a blow to those whom knew him off stage and screen. Some will judge, but others will not and will regret the loss.
no, the greatest porn bottom was by far the beautiful Domino. so much more handsome, so much more devoted to the cock in his ass, always hard wet.
Who in the fuck is/was “Domino”?
kevin williams might be the best bottom ever.
ur ass is ugly
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Actually, I think Jon King was probably the hottest bottom who ever lived… however, Joey comes in at a very close second!
I don’t know if Joey was the “best” bottom, but there is one thing that helped him pass up the rest of the pack… He LOVED getting fucked! And that totally makes a difference! You could tell that while it was happening, he genuinely LOVED it. He didn’t just oooh and ahhh for the camera with pouty lips. His acting wasn’t “acting”… he was really having a good time!
Always wanted to be Joey. Wilfred Knight is my new favorite. He crawls on top, but when he bottoms he exudes a joy of submission reminiscent of Joey
Is there any website with the real story of al these dead pornstar
No doubt about it - Kevin Williams IS the uberist of all uberbottoms!
Definitely, the best EVER. The first porno I started watching was Falcon in the early 90s. When I saw Joey Stefano lower his pants and bend over I couldn’t believe it. Just amazing. Funny, I would definitely put Kevin Williams as my #2. I still pull out those old VHS tapes from time to time and I still get hard and get off. Wish I would have spent the money to hire Joey for a night way back then!
Joey stands out because he truly embodied on the screen the same joy
Tom of Finland gives us on paper. Sex, it’s fun. It’s pleasure.
No guilt. All the others are acting, Joey LOVED it all.
Are you serious? His ass is not all that!
To Howard E. Cook - a lot of B__ __ S__ __ __ __!
The problem is that gay porno should be depicted in a different way - rather as a realtionship than two ( or more ) guys just having it off
I’m a weel experienced older man - I had all the videos & even prayed for himm all the time - one of the few really DEVOTED guys in the sex trade who showed his enjoyment & usually gave us his all!!
Jon King for sure
hot bottoms now are brent corrigan and mason wyler.
brent looks 16 and when he gets fucked he makes it look both painful and ecstatic. his ass doesnt look as gapingly opened and used as much as stefano’s did. joey was hot but a big dick seemed irrevevant in his ass- he swallowed up everything with nonchalance. mason wuler is a hot nasty bitch when unleashed with the right co star- or all his co stars in “spokes 3″. as for kevin williams, i saw a clip recently of chad douglas fucking him hard on a bench and his hair didnt move and he looked bored. i like seeing them thinking they are gonna have trouble walking afterwards…
the extremely handsome boy getting fucked by TONY Stefano in Inch by Inch (the one who was trying to steal his piss stain shorts to pay his rent) looked like he was being split open- what was his name?
lovr that ass…..want to feel that too….
No one’s mentioned Rick Hammersmith, another bottom who clearly enjoys it. And he’s all man to boot.
This may be going back a bit, but what about Kevin Wiles.
He was one of the first insatiable bottoms out there. His scene with Chad Douglas in Big Guns is still porn’s classic.
Joey in my opinion is the greatest gay porn star of all time. He is the first man I ever saw in a gay movie that made me stop and find out what his name was and I never forgot it. He was an amazing bottom and I have never seen anyone who did it better. Kevin Williams in up there too. He also appeared in Madonna’s “Sex” book and I believe he would have become more famous to the general population had he lived longer. In his short life he made a huge impact on the gay adult film world and I would have loved to watch him grow into a beautiful old man. In respone to some of the earlier posts about “his butt not being all that”… you really have to see him in one of his movies to appreciate how beautiful he was. He showed me at an early age that gay men could be just as beautiful and appealing, if not more so, than straight men. RIP
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I could never EVER get enough Joey in the early 90’s. He was almost like a role model for us bottoms. Those smoldering beautiful eyes, along with his boyish good looks..and especially the way he’d pick up some of his own cum and eat it and suck his fingers!!! WOW!!!
I will say, though, the the new Millenium has brought us a new best bottom ever. His name would be DAWSON. He is the most insatiable bottom I have ever seen in 40 years on this planet. It’s almost as if part of Joey lives on in Dawsom.