90 PORN THROB LUCAS RIDGESTON IS BACK AND WANTS TO DIRECT!

Mighty Fine.

Nice work if ya can get it.

I started my career the same way.

He looks good for 90.

Another Frisky Summer.

I Know What You Did Last Frisky Summer.

Directed by Lukas Ridgeston

What’s the most recent porn he’s done?

If it's BelAmi, those on set pics are at least five years old.

I think his most recent was named Lukas In Love. He fucked Jack Harrer in a threeway, IIRC.

I always wished cameraman Marty Stevens would join in on the action. I know he started in front of the camera for BelAmi but he grew into a sexy daddy.

He never performed duo work, though. He's the owner of BelAmi now, I believe.

Old news. And by old, I mean here's a DL thread about it from 2012.

Lukas is a beauty but I preferred Ion Davidov. I never got Johan's appeal.

I loved Johan.

Filmed in Whorescope!

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He starred in [italic]Lukas Forever[/italic] some years after that, R9.

Was that a new movie? Or outtakes/re-packaged?

He’s been behind the scenes for years…old news.

BRING BACK DANO SULIK!

Dano apparently drives a taxi. Something tells me he looks terrible.

I've always thought that there's something about his face that reminds me of Rob Lowe.

They don't really look alike. But, as they've aged, there's something similar in the way their faces are aging also.

Anyone else see it?

Apparently he's owner George Duroy's heir. When he kicks Lucas inherits the Bel Ami porn empire.

I have always liked the slightly doofus looking Bel Ami actors. Clean, nice, but faces at 6 or 7 and amazing bodies and humongous perfect cocks. The ones hired for their endowment.

He's been directing for MANY years. He made a one-off comeback video called FOREVER LUKAS when he turned 40. It was really excellent, and I don't normally get off on Bel Ami stuff.

I need to ask because this is Bel Ami but... is he even gay in real life? I doubt he's the heir to the studio because he'd be much more involved with it and wouldn't have taken a leave of it for as long as he did.

These days, Bel Ami seems like such a shadow of its former self. William Higgins is where it's all happening in that part of the world.

Of course he isn't gay at all, R26. The Bel Ami boys rarely are, and their scenes are choreographed and overacted to the very last detail. It must take ages to film them.

r27 Thanks, I hate it. So glad we're getting past that crap these days and now actual gay guys can get those dollars through OnlyFans and similar platforms. There are some newer studios that stick to gay guys as well, so they aren't all bad.

Giving breeders money to perform gay sex has always felt icky to me, I don't get the appeal of it at all. Seems connected to that infantile fantasy of nabbing the straight jock.

Years ago, there was an pretty in-depth article about Bel Ami, as well as the gay pron companies that had moved to the Czech Republic searching for new, white male "talent." For decades at the height of the cold war, young men joined the military in former eastern bloc countries. However, after the fall of the wall, unemployment was high and there was no longer a need for as many men in the military, so young men had few options.

It was actually pretty sad. There were actually "schools" to teach young men how to take cock and act in pron - mothers, wives, and girlfriends often pushed young guys into performing in order to be supported financially by them. Many of the big name pron companies looked the other way from some pretty shady antics.

[quote]So glad we're getting past that crap these days and now actual gay guys can get those dollars through OnlyFans

LOL - you think the guys on OnlyFans are gay?

If anything, platforms like that have made it much easier for straight guys to take advantage of gay men with gay baiting antics to fleece us of our money.

I disagree, the straight grifters represent a very small segment of gay OF content. Yes, they sometimes make lots of money, but proportionally speaking, they're infinitesimal compared to what was going on with Bel Ami back in the pre-OF era.

Also, no one is fleecing you, it's entirely your choice if you're going to financially support an obviously straight scammer who only flashes his dick occasionally, or a gay guy who passionately fucks other guys. Back in the day, you didn't have that choice, you just got off on what the studios gave you.

Brandon Manilow in 2017.

Barry looks great^. Wow.

well, Lukas sure knows a lot about uh, cock

r32 Looks kinda like a bigger, buffer version of Zelensky.

For how much porn they produce and how atheistic they are, Czechia's gay scene is so weirdly anaemic. Although that country in general has such a sleepy vibe, both from the outside and when I was there a couple of years ago.

I can’t watch those scenes. Guys pretend to like fucking men. No passion no emotions. Mechanical boring act.

BelAmi have so very good performers. There's nothing mechanical or boring about Marcel Gassion, Dylan Maguire, Bastian Dufy, Enrique Vera, Jim Durden, Pip Caulfield, Maori Mortensen etc.

r37 Exactly. There's so much good gay porn nowadays, you can immediately clock what's off here: the lack of passionate glances, the mechanical touches, the kissing is all wrong... In short, an actual desire for the other guy is missing.

R38 You are entitled to your opinion, but I disagree.

Met him once. Short but a definitely a stop on the bus.

I tend to agree with r37, but I did enjoy the Personal Trainers series from the 2000s. Sebastian Bonnet and Dano Sulik as the trainers were fun and had personalities.

These Bel Ami "noms de porn" are hilarious.

Combine a Eurotrash first name with the last name of an old-time poet, novelist. actor, or composer.

[quote]and wouldn't have taken a leave of it for as long as he did

When did he take a long leave? As far as I can recall, he pretty much went from performing to working behind the camera.

I preumed that poster doesn't know that Ridgeston directs.

Documentary about the Czech gay porn industry.

Article from the European Journal of Cultural Studies on Czech Gay Porn. It MUST be accurate since it cites Datalounge several times in the footnotes!

[quote]Article from the European Journal of Cultural Studies on Czech Gay Porn. It MUST be accurate since it cites Datalounge several times in the footnotes!

[quote]how such constructions are understood by viewers, drawing on discourse about Czech men and Czech pornography on online discussion forums.

What a bizarre notion that lacks even the most basic foundation in data gathering.

Bottom left with the messy hair at r46 was a beauty. I think he was living rough. He's probably dead now.

r44 & r45 I am aware that he directs, but he did not go from performing to directing, he left the biz for a few years.

Unlike most other former gay porn models, he's aging very well.

Datalounge: a cruel, vile pit of trollery and inspiration for academic research.

Need to channel Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars, R52, to wit:

Datalounge, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and bitchiness. We must be cautious.