]Hi Kurt,

Do you think you could give us your take on why there is this contingent in the adult adustry--clearly well-represented here at XPT--that so singularly dislikes you? What is drawing the ire, in your view?

Please forgive the length but it deserves a full answer.
Most have fantasized about being a porn star. They won't ever admit it but to some degree we all know it is at least somewhat about jealousy. Plus, it's not just me that they hate (near the top tho I may be). The haters actually pretty much hate most all of us guys and only like a very short list and even that list is different for each poster.
It's also because I stand up for myself, and I promote my projects and for guys, that paints a big target on you. Guys are supposed to be seen and not heard. Well, I call bullshit. My punk rock roots taught me to keep your integrity and self-respect above all other things (Thank you forever, Dee Dee).
And obviously, of course because I did strap on scenes which in the haters' misplaced, rampant, homophobic fury they tried to "Matthew Shephard" me (ncluding actual death threats and murder fantasies-some from this very board), tho how any kind of sex between just a man and a woman can be called gay is beyond most of the educated, non-conservative world.
And lastly, I think it's also somewhat that the hater posters have this bizarre obsession/repulsion with porn and it's players which I think IMHO is in direct correlation with their own obsession/repulsion about themselves and porn. Don't you think it's at least a little bizarre that all of these grown, mostly middle-aged men who are not in the biz at all yet voraciously live for gossip to an encyclopedic extent about people that they will never know? Why are they sooo completely apeshit ga ga for it and not their own lives? I mean c'mon, forget strap ons, where's the masculinity in gossiping everyday like little old ladies in a sewing circle?