Hi everyone. Curious non-techie here. I've been seeing more and more uploads using HVEC. What is HVEC? Is there an advantage to it?

Thanks for any insight!

@john32123666 Thanks mucho! I've been avoiding downloading these torrents as I had no idea what they were. But it seems there is no reason not to.

@lololulu19 Thanks!

@frostycab Thank you!

Several vids have been uploaded of guys on cam-for-pay sites who are using some sort of estim (?) or vibrating (?) thing up their asses, that have some sort of antenna sticking out. I assume it's so that customers can operate the simulator.

It looks like they have a REALLY good time and I would love to try one of these toys, but I don't know what they are called, so I don't know where to look to get one.

Can anyone offer any info? Have you tried it? What did you think?

An American in Sri Lanka here. I don't speak Sinhala (live in a Tamil-speaking area) but I've heard that the Sinhala slang for this translates into "cutting stone." Any Sinhalese here who can confirm?

@john32123666 Thanks mucho! I've been avoiding downloading these torrents as I had no idea what they were. But it seems there is no reason not to.

Hi everyone. Curious non-techie here. I've been seeing more and more uploads using HVEC. What is HVEC? Is there an advantage to it?

Thanks for any insight!

This seems to be happening in the last 24 hours or so. It's a glitch-thingy (a technical term I'm sure); undoubtedly the staff is aware of the problem and will find a solution. Have both faith and patience.

I think there’s a generational component to this as well. I’m in my 50s and coming out as gay back then seems to have a different meaning than coming out does to the younger generation. Back then, being out publicly, especially during the onslaught of AIDS in the 1980s was a personal, political, and social declaration. With todays’ vastly different attitudes about sexuality (at least in the West) coming out is no longer a declaration of liberation/rebellion against mainstream society. Non-straightness has become part of mainstream society.

Furthermore, the younger generation has very different way of looking at and categorizing sex and sexuality. There have been numerous studies (no, I’m not going to look them up and site them) showing that among teenagers and 20-somethings there is a lot of attitude fluidity and that playing around with someone of the same gender is no big deal. Even “straight” behavior has been undergoing a lot of change, as young straight guys seem to be less and less worried about what is traditionally masculine. True, not all straight guys, young or older, ascribe to these new norms, but acceptance of these new norms is spreading. Seems to me that all this acceptance can only be a good thing.

As far as self-identifying as straight, I’ve heard a lot of different definitions. Some guys who are straight are simply not excited my other men. Some can have sex with other guys, but their romantic attachments are towards women.

Given this situation, it’s no surprise that some straight guys have gay sex for money, and that the reasons cover the whole spectrum described in previous replies, particularly among young men who don't attach much stigma to the idea.

Lastly, I think part of it is an anti-bisexual bias that is common among both straight and gay people. Many see bisexual men (in particular) as either wishy-washy or untrustworthy or both. Somehow it’s cool for a straight guy to fool around with men, but bi-guys are often treated with suspicion. If I were a bi-man in the porn industry, given the high status of a straight-guy-going-gay, I would certainly go for the moolah and status and claim to be straight. Why not? In terms of the actual work involved, it’s all the same; what is different is the perception of the potential viewer/customer.

At any rate, what does it matter how a porn actor chooses to portray himself? Porn isn’t real anyway - it’s pure fantasy. In reality, we know next to nothing about the actors’ lives off the set. And in the real world a person can label themselves - or not - however they choose to, and by whatever definition the choose to apply to themselves. Who are we to tell them what they can or can’t call themselves, especially when we know nothing about them?

OK, this reply went on way longer than intended!

I guess they did it VH1 style because so many people are familiar with the concept and the style.

I downloaded one. Didn't care for it. Sometimes the text was incredibly small, sometimes the background color of the popup box made reading the text difficult, and oft times the text is so damn small you can barely read it (Alas for us with less than perfect eyesight!) and sometimes the popup vanishes so quickly you have to rewind and freeze it, so as to read the thing. Occasionally the info provided was interesting, but most of the time not.

Not a fan, won't download anymore of these popup videos.

Been seeing older stuff re-issued as "pop up." Is it sort of like the old VH1 "Pop Up Video" music video shows? Or is this just a ploy to get us to re-use older videos?