Oh man, I'm glad I've found a thread devoted to him.
I would have loved to see his hardcore porn, if he'd have gone forward with it, but oh well! I'm glad he's doing something he's happy with. I get the feeling from him that he rather enjoyed porn (in the limited capacity that he was) and would have liked to have continued doing it, but I imagine it would be pretty hard to try to balance both careers, even if you don't figure in the fact that the media and the general public don't often make it easy for people to be famous at both adult entertainment and something else.
Honestly, I still think he looks fantastic, and he still has lots of fun with his sexuality and his body as part of marketing his line of hair products and his musical career. Removed from the context of being an erotica model and go-go boy dancer, it might come across as a bit eccentric and self-absorbed, but...eh, I say let him have his fun. And maybe it's not the most directly focused approach, and maybe being an LA hairdresser isn't exactly a position where it's the most challenging stance to take, but I still like that he's sort of being a sex-positive figure.
And I think it's a bit of an unkind overstatement to say that he's buried his dancer/modeling/softcore porn past. I follow him on insta, because who doesn't love a guy who's like a magical combination of cute, babyfaced twunk and big, beefy daddy? But he's not super shy about referring to his modeling and go-go dancing days, and he still openly hangs out with Peter Le aka Peter Fever, and if you're trying to bury the trail of your past flirtations with porn, one would probably not actively advertise the close friendship one maintains with Peter Fever.
I've only briefly skimmed through the thread, but were some people saying they couldn't find his old softcore videos? I have a handful of them. Unless it turns out that I missed all of it
I could be conflating it with folks lamenting that we'll never see any of the more hardcore stuff that was allegedly produced. Yeah, would be hot to see it, if the stories are true, but oh well. We'll manage, I guess.