I have been a strong advocate of porn since I first found a gay magazine at a local bookstore when I was 11 years old. Encountering gay pornography before even figuring out who I am, I was given a "gei" identity to embrace, a "gei" community to enter, "gei" sex to explore, and "gei" porn to enjoy the shit out of. Never depressed by my "normal" same-sex attraction, I was such a healthy gay teenager in Japan. Here I am, coming so far as to aspire for a doctoral degree by studying anything Queer.

This is why I believe that porn can be empowering to some Queer youths, despite my awareness of oppressive aspects of straight porn and gay porn. I have written research papers on heteronormative racial stereotypes in U.S. gay pornography and facilitated workshops on Queer men of color in gay pornography at several conferences, exploring how racist commercial gay porn can be. I continue to explore this topic by going online and visiting various gay porn websites. For academic purposes.

One day, while I was doing this daily research, I encountered a website that features young Asian men who seem to be in pain (and pleasure) while receiving anal penetrative sex.

Let's look at their narratives, shall we?


"Welcome To AsianBoysInPain.com - Our site features exclusive asian twink models that you won't see anywhere else. We find these asian boys in countries like Thailand, China, Philippines, Korea, Singapore, Japan and more. We only shoot the youngest and cutest boys that we find who are willing to let us abuse their tight young holes. Watch as we rail these boys till they scream in pain from hard long white cock!"

"Small Asian Twinks Getting Slammed By Hard White Cock––These Twinks Scream In Pain As We Abuse Their Tight Asses"

"Hot Young Asian Boys Being Abused By Hard Cock––We Don't Care If It Hurts! Shut The Fuck Up And Take It!"

"Aum is a 19 year old student from China. We found him in a local market that was near the hotel we were staying at. We saw him looking at our white stud and new [sic] he would be a solid candidate. We approached him and offered him a chance to get layed [sic] by our big dicked white stud. He quickly agreed. We picked up some lupe [sic] and hit the ATM for some cash to make the pain more worth his while :) Watch us strech [sic] this cute 19 year olds [sic] ass and mouth till we give him a load of cum up his ass in the end."

"Hong Kong is a city of fast life and fashion. We picked up Mark from a Christian Dior store. He's a sales man at the store. We offered him a pretty nice amount of cash to be punished by our hard dicked stud. We got him back to the studio and had him do some sexy poses etc. We then got down to businesses. We really gave it to this poor boy, gagged him, made him choke, fucked his ass extra hard, had him scream and much much more! Join now for access to all our amazingly hardcore scenes!"

"A sweet 18 year old ass is what we have here. We meet [sic] Tik at a disco in bangin [sic] Bangkok :) He was a bit tipsy and I can't lie and say we didnt [sic] capitalize on that! We gave it to this young asian boy in a hardcore way! Hardcore deep throating and gagging, some amazing anal in many positions and a load of cum into his ass in the end! Join our site now and gain instant access!"


So these "white" men believe that...
-Asian boys are willing to do anything for cash.
-Asian boys are always looking for a white dick.
-Asian boys are always looking for a big dick.
-Asian boys are in need of big a white dick.
-Asian boys are small.
-Asian boys have a small dick.
-Asian boys can be picked up anywhere.
-Asian boys can be abused.
-Asian boys need to be punished.
-Asian boys can be silenced.
-Asian boys actually enjoy painful sex.
-Asian boys are consumable and disposable.

These ideas didn't come from nowhere. They are all products of colonial, imperial, and patriarchal discourse from back in the days. These images have historically been applied to Asian women for straight white gaze first, and then to Asian men for gay white gaze. Why Asian women? Because straight white men believed that they were entitled to "civilize"=colonize Asia by raping the women and raping the land; as Andrea Smith explains, "sexual violence is not simply a tool of patriarchy but also a tool of colonialism and racism." Now colonization is taking place in the global Queer sphere through the Internet, in very similar ways, creating controlling images and colonizing the minds of gay men of all races who love jacking off to Internet pornography marketed for white gay men.

This is why it's important for the oppressed to gain knowledge about our his/herstory. To figure out why we find this website offensive and how to condemn it, we may go as far back as the days of our ancestors.