The Passion of the Christ gets a gay porn redo A successful strategy in the pornographic film industry is to take storylines and titles from popular mainstream movies and television and rework them into something titillating. You might never have seen Everybody Does Raymond, or Dawson's Crack, or Bi-Curious George but you know they're out there, somewhere, lurking in the adult section of your neighborhood DVD rental store. So I suppose with the massive worldwide success of Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ it was only a matter of time before some enterprising adult entertainment company took a crack at re-envisioning it. I just wish it hadn't been a gay entertainment company. Someone just sent me a formal press release from Dark Alley Media hawking their new movie, Passio, which director Matthias Von Fistenberg describes as a selection of incidents from the life of Jesus...
Hmm. Von Fistenberg. Any relation to the Savannah Von Fistenbergs, I wonder? Seriously though, this is in incredibly poor taste even by my quite flexible standards. Junk like this (served up to FOX News and other outlets in a press release no less!) makes it so darn easy to demonize the LGBT community. For that reason, I hesitate to give the folks who made this film any exposure at all by mentioning it here but realized that Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and the like are going to be on this like a duck on a junebug anyway. So when you're flipping through the news channels and see the conservative talking heads ranting about it, at least you can say you heard it here first.
The press release certainly seems calculated to prompt a conservative commentator backlash. It also mentions two other purposefully controversial films:
Funny, I don't find these nearly as offensive. But like the Passion of the Christ take off, I don't see how anyone could find them erotic, either. Submitted by on Fri, 2007-11-09 12:43. |
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I take it these pornographic
movie producers are straight, if they are gay then they are really beyond the pale! This movie is beyond bad taste even for pornography. It is bad enough that it is harder to find porn movies that DO NOT have barebacking sex, now we have them taking their cue from religion and torture. What happened to harmless titles like "Hard Meat" and "The Postman Always Comes Twice"? (I made that last one up).
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JBE
Evan is right
this is probably not the wisest post I have seen on AfterElton. Don't wave a bloody fish around when you are surrounded by sharks!
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JBE
Take It Down
I understand why this movie
Bad Taste
It is like that old game of creating a country song title like GOD LOVES A WOMAN WHO TEASES HER HAIR, or I THANK GOD AND GREYHOUND YOU ARE GONE. Since when did we expect porn companies to act appropriately, or be politically correct. I guess they overlooked THE O'REILLY FUCK SCORE or TRUCKER CARL'S SON. Now there is bad taste.
Speaking of Bad Taste...
Exactly.
I find the torture fetish of Gibson's film more offensive than the idea of Jesus getting it on with his disciples.
I find this very, very
I find this very, very funny. Not hot in the least, but funny. After all, there is a tradition of homoeroticism in christianity, so why not go all the way?
"Gaytanamo", on the other hand, that I do find a bit shocking.
François
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