For some, it may wind up being a fantasy come true.

For far too many people lately, it's been their nightmare made flesh, showing up on the nightly news and morning's headlines.

But in the realm of fantasy, a lot of us wonder whether someone who is so holy by day could be a hellcat by night, wonder how to bring that sexual person out into the light of day. A few gay porn videos explore this very concept.

Putting religion and sex into a pornvid can be difficult. The combination brings up all sorts of awkward, unpleasant feelings. Many of us were raised in religions that declared that we were not nice people. Of course, that's part of why we like to watch holy men rutting like the rest of us: we want to see the authority figure unable to resist the temptation of just the right person forced to confront his own desires and to realize that he's no better than anyone else. Who wouldn't get a tiny frisson at the very thought?

Sex-and-Religion videos tend to fall into a few broad categories: Temptation, Corruption, Redemption and Deliverance -- and one other category.

TEMPTATION

The Temptation videos don't concern themselves with reality. They sometimes take a mythological approach that imparts an oddly Old Testament feel, complete with A Moral In The End -- albeit somewhat turned on its head. Demons, satyrs, angels and other creatures appear, cavorting with the odd man or two (or ten). The Devil himself may even indulge in the odd bit of frolicking. The "deal with the devil" is, in fact, a classic theme from other media.

In All Worlds' The Devil is a Bottom directed by Bud Light (a.k.a. Wash West), Blake Harper plays the title role. He gives three men exactly what they want when they implore his magic mirror: the man of one's dreams, lots of money, and the big dick o' doom, respectively. Eventually, he collects on his bargain and takes them to hell, where they discover that their punishment is to have sex with each other and the Devil -- for all eternity. Amen -- (this is punishment?) When one of them tries to get the Devil to screw him, Blake Harper utters that immortal line: "I can't. For the Devil is a bottom, you see."

Salvation does, however, arrive at the last moment, in the form of the angel Mickey Skee, letting them know that if they renounce their ill-gotten gains, they can go to heaven for eternity instead. (Eternity having sex with Blake Harper, or heaven. There's a difference?) One of them does decide that salvation isn't worth giving both up his prize and sex with the devil (and no wonder!), but the others happily follow the angel up to heaven.

YMAC's The Devil and Danny Webster features the devil tempting a young man by letting him have any man he wants during a ten year period, after which, of course, he's required to descend to hell. He, too, is saved by the power of true love and sex with the proper man (no, Edith Wharton didn't write this screenplay.)

Not all Temptation videos are so explicitly Biblical, of course. The now-defunct Bijou Studios' One Night in Hell features, naturally enough, a man dragged to hell one night -- it's not at all clear why -- where the Devil and his minions torture him sexually. They tie him down and have their wicked way with him repeatedly -- but won't let him come. Eventually, his sad, shaven-crotched, leather-clad guardian angel rescues him, has sex with him until he shoots, and puts him back on Earth.

Titan's Fallen Angel series takes the "leather angel" further. The first three videos of the sequence feature angels who fall to earth, lose their wings (more or less), then engage in SM leathersex with humans and each other. Apparently, leather, whips, chains, fisting, violet wands, and piercing are all especially tempting to angels -- who knew? The brief view of angel wings is as biblical as this series gets, however. Sea Men: Fallen Angel 4 is based loosely on Fassbinder's Querelle and has nothing to do with religion -- no fallen angels are anywhere to be seen, despite the title.

People (and angels) can be tempted by sex: the right kind of sex, with the right people, or the right accouterments. Renouncing Temptation can be as important in these videos as being tempted in the first place. The possibility of salvation frequently appears -- filmmakers have a studied distaste for leaving their characters unredeemed. Understandable, really; why prove the fundies right? It's always clear that even though sex can be used to tempt, it's not bad in and of itself. Sex is simply neutral, neither good nor bad, just one facet of the rest of their lives, and overcoming temptation (when they do) helps them set everything else into place.

CORRUPTION

Corruption vids approach their topic with unholy, matter-of-fact glee. In Corruption videos, all souls are assumed to be sexual, unless otherwise noted.

For example, in Missionary Position Sweet Williams plays a priest who has sex with the students in his school. Right there, in the sacristy and in their sacramental robes, not a scintilla of regret for anyone. The student makes a heavy pass that is well received, and the next thing you know, the Sweet one is bent over a bench with a blonde up his bum. Of course, the students also have frequent and enthusiastic sex with each other. Then they go out to spread the Word and spread those with whom they share it.

Falcon's Bad Behavior features Marcus Iron and Chad Kennedy as door-to-door missionaries corrupted by the evil Addison Scott into the ways of mansex, leather and Dildos of Unusual Size. Eventually, Marcus is so seduced by the dark side that he returns the favor to Sam Crockett and Gage Michaels -- without the dungeon, though. (We never do learn what happened to Chad. He may still be in Addison Scott's basement.)

Hot House's The Road Home can't really be said to be a corruption video as such. After all, it's not explicitly about religion or its effects, although it does feature a priest. Father Ryan Idol only appears in one scene. Todd Gibbs confesses to Father Ryan about how bad he's been recently (and he's been a very busy man indeed by that point in the video), but his sins pale next to Father Ryan's; he's so aroused by Todd's tales that he pulls out his dick and jerks off, right there in the confessional!

Cadinot's Sacre College is frequently cited as a video that was scandalous in its day. Now it seems mild. The plot is similar to Missionary Position's: boys in a Catholic residential school having sex with each other everywhere, all the time. However, the worst thing that the priest does is watch and be scandalized at one point. Curiously, he does nothing else, not even punish the transgressors -- not for the sex, anyway.

Corruption videos can be seen from different perspectives. On the one hand, "holier than thou" people can be humanized via corruption or seduction. They're forced to recognize that sex doesn't make them "bad" people. On the other hand, sometimes people in corruption videos just have fun being gleefully and knowingly corrupt. Being bad can be such fun!

So...Pick your moral.

Redemption and deliverance -- the most subversive of the lot...[continues>]

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