Denmark, Finland 2009, 52'/72' min, SDA Elotar Oy Production
by Markku Heikkinen
REQUEST A SCREENING All Boys
The exploitation of the lonely: a look at the social and individual impact of the boy porn industry in Europe. Men in boy porn business within the commerciality of the passing beauty of youth, of poverty. Gay porn has always been the fastest growing segment of the Entertainment business.Where do the porn boys come from originally, and how do they work? The film exposes the production chain of East European boy porn. It is the poor, uneducated, unemployed young men without strong family ties or social networks, who drift into the porn industry and its ‘foster care’. For some it offers survival and peers in the porn community, at least for a while, but in many cases the quick, easy money comes at a high cost in the long run. After five films these boys are already too old.
We see East Europe’s boys, mostly with heterosexual identities, in casting sessions, before and after shoots, with the team they work with.
Porn and prostitution often go hand in hand. For consumers porn is mainly entertainment, but maybe it often also serves to alleviate the same wounds, the same loneliness, as in the production side of the business. It is the exploitation of the lonely on all sides.
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