Treasure Island Media is currently being sued by the State of California's Workers Safety Commission for shooting bareback video, thus not keeping their "actors" safe from STDs.
However, there is something about Daswson that sort of creeps me out. He seems like a sweet bottom with a nice ass, but I suspect he is mildly debilitated, mentally. I seriously believe his IQ is a bit on the low scale (maybe 100?) and that Treasure Island takes advantage of him. I've watched him at the street fair in San Francisco give head and let guys grope him, and for someone in his late 20s to early 30s he sort of talks and behaves live a 12 year-old. It's sort of sad.
For some reason, I always suspected that TIM vids were shot outside of CA (NYC, for instance, or Chicago during IML), and many of their best ones (
Bad Influence, for instance) were shot overseas. No matter, for various reasons I've found that the quality of their product has hit Hot Desert Knights-levels of low: how many Roid-and-Tina hotel room fuckfests can one really endure before they all seem precisely the same?
I agree with your take on Dawson's affect, but have always attributed it to the "zone" most porn performers need to reach where they can appear aware without really living in the moment; I understand female porn performers frequently describe the same thing (after they've retired). Of course, it could also just be drugs: a hard-on on Dawson is rarer than a clear pic of a
Chupacabra.
As to the whole "exploitation" angle, I think with porn it's always a two-way street as to who's exploiting whom and under what terms. Maybe Dawson's really a high-functioning guy with a 70 IQ, maybe he's always zoned on drugs, maybe he's just developed a tough shell to hide inside when he's being "Dawson The Pornstar", but he gets paid for doing what he does. He's the most charismatic bottom in porn since Joey Stefano.
FWIW, I played with a tall, tattooed Roid-and-Tina type most of the membership here would find porn-worthy
hawt about 3.5 years ago who was a fucked-up, drug-shooting, very beautiful mess in his late 30s. Though we hooked up for sex (and had some, though not to my satisfaction), most of our time together was spent talking. He claimed to be Dawson's "boyfriend", which I was disinclined to believe. But taken with a hefty grain of salt, I was told that IRL he hates being "Dawson", is very shy and introverted and only "gets fucked for the money", as he finds bottoming distasteful.
