Exploitation in all-male pornography set in the Czech Republic

Abstract

All-male pornography websites Czech Hunter, Debt Dandy and Dirty Scout rely on a fantasy of gay-for-pay sex in the Czech Republic. This article explores how these examples construct the ‘Eastern European’ gay-for-pay male and how such constructions are understood by viewers, drawing on discourse about Czech men and Czech pornography on online discussion forums. I argue that these examples of all-male pornography can be understood as expressing ‘exploitation themes’. The argument is made that such themes are the result of a residual attraction associated with the opening up of Eastern Europe to the West in the 1990s and that the promise of these sites is access to the (not-so-)newly available, particularly vulnerable, young men supposedly easily exploited by the money of Westerners.