Treasure Island Media

Why that particular company, OP? Is it famous for something?

I just want to know what “mostly straight” stoner Alex is up to.

[quote]s it famous for something?

Infamous.

Apart from a very few who were, imo, only passably attractive, the vast majority in their films were downright skeevy. I'm sure that was part of the draw for some viewers, but I often felt dirty after watching their stuff. Occasionally some of the guys from more mainstream studios would work their way down the line to TIM. By the time they signed on with TIM they were often looking really haggard. I feel like there's a definite progression of studios you go through as you age or become over-exposed and you're expected to do increasingly niche or denigrating things. Part of me suspects they can't be doing nearly as well as they used to since Prep became mainstream and barebacking less verboten.

[quote] you're expected to do increasingly niche or denigrating things

Aside from the kinks they participate in personally, like what?

I just feel like... you don't get a lot of fisting videos or pissplay or BDSM out of the likes of Titan, Falcon, etc. And you're right, maybe these are just pre-existing kinks. But I also think it's likely that boundary-pushing becomes encouraged or rewarded at some point, you rationalize "it's just a little urine", "so-and-so can handle XYZ, why can't I?", etc.

Yes, they’re quite nasty most of the time, but the videos with sexy stoner Alex (mostly straight), are quite wholesome. He’s so beautiful, please check him out, especially the video where he has the soul patch (?) as he blows Dan Fisk.

Titan and Falcon have entire lines devoted to assplay, piss and BDSM. And, it's what they all do themselves. In the old days, that's how and where they met models. It's not like these guys are forced to do anything they don't want, most of them eagerly. That's what so great about gay porn (as opposed to straight); the actors are usually really into whatever they're doing.

[quote] boundary-pushing becomes encouraged or rewarded at some point, you rationalize "it's just a little urine", "so-and-so can handle XYZ, why can't I?", etc.

Or "why can't I just handle a little raw meat?"

You know?

“Mostly straight “ Alex, ha ha.

Any porn studio that builds its base on bug chasing, drug use, and cutting deserves to be nuked from space.

Cutting?

There's a video where performers are cutting themselves and one carves the name of the guy who created TIM into his chest.

I like their oral videos because I like watching extreme deep throat artists. I also like the look of a lot of their guys, since mainstream porn is so cookie cutter. Not into any of their kink stuff, and even the anal scenes get gross with emphasis on ass to mouth, creampies and felching etc. Okay, we get it, there are no boundaries, but all of that shit seems like it's just for shock value. A room full of guys over-acting over cum oozing out of a bottom's asshole while Greedy Pig #4 laps it up is actually a bit tedious and silly looking, and the opposite of erotic.

I still fuck Matt from TMI from time to time. He’s gotten over his meth problem, though he has an occasional relapse. Last time, I fucked him in front is his meth buddies, who just wanted to watch.

At least they're not into scat!

"able to leave". Treasure Island Media isn't the Playboy Mansion. Guys get a few hundred bucks to show up to motel rooms, fuck bareback, eat loads, and leave. It's porn guys, escorts, unemployed guys, marginally employed guys, and guys with jobs that won't be impacted by being seen in a porn video.

Treasure Island used to have some very hot men in their stable, but the ones I see these days all look like meth skanks on their last legs.

I know that mega stud Will West went back to his normal life in Phoenix after being TIM's premier stud for years.

[quote] Is there a article or link where one could read about what happened to the pornstars who made videos here. Wondering if any of them were able to leave and go back to normal daily life after porn.

Only if wearing Depends. Air travel is especially problematic.

Any guy who worked for them Never had a normal life to get back to in the first place.

[quote] At least they're not into scat!

Sumthin' wrong with poopin'?

I knew a guy who worked for TIM. But then he died.

What's sad is that U=U and Mr. Friendly shit has Blue Bailey who starred in most of TIM's bug chasing videos as its spokes whore a guy who bragged on Twitter about taking "toxic" loads because he wanted HIV how fucked up is that!

Okay, now say it in English so we can all understand, R23.

If you can't understand R24 then that's your issue.

I really want to know who this Paul Morris guy is. Does anyone have any details that they can share?

It was his name or initials that that guy was carving into his chest R26 so he must be highly fucked up too.

I loved TIM when it first came out because it was so nasty, so forbidden. The guys seemed to be really into it and passionate.

I find TIM’s videos less stagey than Titan’s and Falcon’s.

The most famous TIMer to go on to a “normal” life is, of course, Dawson of 50 loads fame. I believe he does something with computers now. Rumor is he received a 6 figure payout to not ever appear in porn again so he will always be a TIM exclusive

R15, which one is Matt?

TIM got famous by focusing on the bottoms rather than the usual focus on tops.

I also love that so many of their model were hairy. There would always be nice closeups of the hair

They got famous for being the studio where poz models barebacked with guys who wanted to covert.

Sorry, Convert.

TIM made some of the best porn. It had an immediacy and the feel of real sex that was all about sex, men on the same level of hunger for sex, and viewed from the perspectives of tops and bottoms and men switching those roles.

Slamming, if you overlook the first three minutes where slamming is clearly implied, is great porn. There's no one there looking vacantly off into the distance thinking about what to have for dinner that night, or acting for the camera. The actors look as though they want to be there and the cameras be damned.

I understand why some are put off by the premise. I am, too, and discovered it by figuring out what film it was from a nondescript title of a segment on some porn vid intermediary. The effort behind a porn shoot always shows in Falcon and Titan. TIM is more a case of the essence of real sex caught not composed.

It's strong sex and not neatly choreographed or plotted, with strong, seemingly real reactions from the cast. It's not for everyone but it's very good for what it is.

How is showing guys shooting meth on-camera legal?

[quote] He’s gotten over his meth problem, though he has an occasional relapse.

Look up the word “contradiction.”

[quote] If you can't understand R24 then that's your issue.

We can understand r24, it’s your post none of us can make heads or tails of.

[quote] Rumor is he received a 6 figure payout to not ever appear in porn again so he will always be a TIM exclusive

And you believe that?

Are you in the market for a new bridge, cause I’ve got a dandy!

Isn't TIM the home of Dawson and his 20 load weekend?

Usually, the videos are somewhat hot. Yet, the bottom’s cock is almost always hidden under a jock strap. This is irksome; a cock should always be on full display.

No, R38.

🙄

Fine R24/36 feel free to correct my grammar and punctuation but the gist is Blue Bailey who while doing porn for TIM bragged on Twitter about getting pozzed up, was made the ambassador for U=U, and Mr. Friendly both pro-HIV organizations.

Well thanks for that, since I had no idea what U=U or Mr. Friendly are.

Context is really helpful.

R37, and yet Dawson has never appeared in a non TIM film. He left the business a porn superstar. I’m sure other companies would have loved to have him.

I do believe there was some sort of payoff

TIM movies became popular just at the right time—in the early naughts. There was a backlash against condoms. Dawson was a new, sexy star who would do almost anything to please his tops. Meth was taking hold especially on the east coast.

TIM videos showed passionate, nasty sex for a methed up audience that wanted to see nasty, bareback sex.

Ray Butler worked with all the big mainstream studios when he was young. Then he went bareback (acting and directing) with TIM as a very handsome silver daddy. He directed some of the wildest TIM videos ever for a while.

Years later, I still get off on the TIM videos from twenty years ago

Is Ray Butler one of the leathery lizards like Dolf Deitrich?

I remember him now he started doing fisting videos and became a member of the prolapse posse.

There’s some documentary about porn. Ray Butler is in it and seems mostly sad.

Sex/Life In L.A. 2: Cycles of Porn

That’s the documentary with R. Butler

"passionate nasty sex" Mostly it was washedup old porn guys scenery chewing their moans through the same scenes over and over again. Basically a used up old guys version of regular porn.

r4 Where would you say the Falcon studio fits in the gay porn studio hierarchy? Im wondering because a few like Josh Moore have left Cockyboys for Falcon studios and I wonder if that would be classed as an upwards or downwards move?

R51, the TIM porn I used to watched didn’t have any particularly old guys in it

Falcon and others seems so stagey in comparison.

Would Treasure Island Media be comparable to Gemini Men?

r54 But is moving to Falcon from Cockyboys an upwards or downwards move?

Treasure Island is closer to Satyr films than Gemini Men

Sex/Life In L.A. 2: Cycles of Porn is the documentary where they show Will West preparing for a scene. He pulls out a hypodermic needle and sticks it in the base of his penis and injects some sort of erection medication. He looks at the camera and says "it doesn't hurt at all". I guess viagra didn't work for him.

I know one of the guys in one of the UK ones and he has a normal job.

Another is a very well known and infamous drag artist and escort and something else.

I love the sleaziness of TIM. Sketchy Sex or Boys Halfway House are gross but they lack the back-alley cumdump essence that TIM does so well.

Please define cumdump essence r60!!!

R54: You are pretty literal minded. Old here is not chronological, its metaphorical. An old porn guy could be 25 or 40, but old because he was washedup in a business where some people barely last a year before they slip down the roster of studios.

TIM actors really make the audience believe they are really into the sex

Who would have thought someone would start their career there and go on to work for Men.com, Chaos and other studios.

I miss Satyr films. They were all pretty fucked up.

R29 the bottom is Matt

TIM lead the way for Raw Fuck Club and Charged Up Media

TIM used to have such a joie de sleaze. But no more.

They have really sexy men of color who have agency. This is rare in gay porn which is usually about white gay men and their desires.

There were cutting edge about 20 years ago. Many studios have followed in their footsteps, particularly since everyone is BBing again.

Not sure what TIM's purpose is any more.

[quote] TIM lead the way for

Oh, dear!

R71, it's weird to demand perfect grammar in a thread about TIM

True, but not looking for perfect grammar.

Too many people seem to think the past tense of lead is lead.

It’s led.

Only you give a fuck in a TIM thread, dear.

Since it's the TIM thread, everyone needs to give AND take a fuck.

[quote]They have really sexy men of color who have agency.

What agency are they with?

How many of TIM's stable were meth heads or became meth heads afterward.

I dunno, but I’ve watched a lot of TIM films and I’ve never seen cutting or meth use. I’m not saying those things didn’t happen, but they’re not features of every TIM film or even a large proportion of them.

Either way working for TIM usually equals HIV and/or drug abuse so even if they are clean many will automatically assume they aren't.

R78: "Slammed" starts with just that, but it's not on film. A few other films (the titles have obvious clues inf I recall( show the after effects. I didn't see any actual use, just the "after," but I've only seen a sample of their films.

TIM does blowjob scenes so fuckin' good. This one is one of my most favorites. The cocksucker is so into it and the scene where Drew holds his lips wide and fucks his mouth. Hot damn!

[quote] What agency are they with?

The CIA, Rose.

Their oral cumshots are always the best!

TIM fetishized poz junkies giving and getting HIV so they've always been shit and always will be.

Their oral videos are great.

I think their camera work is a bit amateurish

Maybe the HIV meds make the camera guy shakey.

That could be true!

Treasure Island Media's "What I Can't See 2" is one of the few full-length porn movies I really enjoy watching from start to finish. The first scene in particular with the "preacher" getting fucked by a cavalcade of gorgeous men turns me on like no other. You get an assortment of men, ranging from ripped muscle studs to younger guys, to hairy daddy types, but all have one thing in common: they are all very masculine. If I am watching porn, it is my go-to scene.

Fuck you, old thread bumper @r89