Last year, I did a show in a club for straight people. A lot of them are straight.Ī lot of straight guys are watching gay porn. A lot of my friends and a lot of people I know, they know about my porn career because they search porn and they discover my videos. A lot of guys in the gym, they start to talk to me and say, ‘I know you,’ and I say, ‘Oh really, where from?’ They say, ‘I watch your movies.’ A lot of the guys who tell me they watch my movies aren’t gay, they’re straight, and they like watching my movies with their wives. I am famous in the gay community, but I’m starting to understand that it’s not just in our community. You’ve built a really loyal fanbase through your work – what’s that been like? I think people need to be more relaxed about porn because there’s nothing wrong with it. I talk really easily and normally about it. I talk to all kinds of people about my job, and some people start to act strange but most people are curious. My family know I’m a porn actor – all my family, and we are Italian, and Italian people are really conservative.Ī post shared by Manuel Scalco think the truth is that people who talk s**t about porn consume a lot of porn. When I’m talking with some guys at the gym, they say, ‘What is your job?’ I say, ‘I’m a porn actor,’ and they say, ‘Oh really?’ I see people acting like, ‘Oh my God!’ But me, I’m acting really normal.
Today, sexuality and porn are starting to be really normalised, but a lot of people continue to talk about porn as a really big taboo. Do you find it frustrating that those conversations are still going on?
There’s still a lot of stigma out there about porn – even quite recently Billie Eilish said that porn had “destroyed” her brain. But today people doing OnlyFans or JustForFans can end up getting really frustrated because they’re filming all week, every single day, to generate content to make money. A lot of people tell me, ‘I love when I’m watching your movies, it’s real, it’s 100 per cent real’, and that’s because I have chemistry with the other guy. At least 80 per cent of the reason you should be doing this is for pleasure.įor me porn is a form of art, especially the eroticism. But then another guy, when going on OnlyFans, is thinking at all times about the camera, looking at the camera, posing for the camera. Enjoy the situation, enjoy the moment, and don’t think about the camera. I tell people, ‘Don’t worry.’ I set the cameras and I tell them to be natural. The reason I prefer a real studio to OnlyFans is because I focus on passion with my studio. I meet a lot of people who are on OnlyFans and sometimes they’ll tell me that they find it really stressful because they need to create a lot of content to make money. It can be really boring – I prefer porn from studios, I like to make something professional. I still have my OnlyFans account because sometimes I post videos from my movies. I felt that it wasn’t a pleasure or a fantasy for me to do one video in front of the camera for the money, so I stopped. I started OnlyFans when I started doing porn, and I started because it was a new platform. I don’t really have a good opinion of OnlyFans.
You’re on OnlyFans as well – what’s that experience been like for you? Have you enjoyed it and would you recommend it to others? People don’t like static guys or really fake acting, so I think our secret is about creating passion between partners, making the situation really real. I work in clubs too, and when I talk with people they tell me that they love passion. A lot of companies, they have a lot of hardcore porn, but everything is really cold. Yeah, sometimes it’s difficult to come up with new ideas, but our difference is eroticism. Is it difficult to come up with original story ideas for the scenes? So my fetish comes from when I saw that guy cleaning, and it’s on my mind every time. It’s the same as with straight men who love women with high heels – I think it’s the same fetish but a gay version. I was around 10, 11 years old, so I was really young, and I saw a guy in a shop wearing sporty things like Nike sneakers and socks, and I started watching him without a t-shirt in the street cleaning, and I was like, ‘Oh my god.’ I don’t know why, but I started to fixate on his sneakers and socks, and I found him really hot. Every day my mom would pick me up to bring me home and we would walk through the streets.
It started when I was a really shy kid and I was still at school.