Tell the stories. I’m curious what you remember.
Paulie and Corey were friends. They were barely 18 when they met Vinny at a car show. They both were into prescription drugs, and I guess they liked the easy money from the videos with Vinnie. They grew up in a solidly middle class area, but were not serious about school and more into chasing girls and partying. Typically for young guys doing that, they were getting in trouble with the law.
I first talked to them on a local phone chat line. They were looking for money and party supplies, and weren’t averse to meeting with a guy, although I got the initial impression that they weren’t going to do anything with a guy. I was obviously wrong.
I met Paulie when he was around 22, and kept in touch with him on and off until right before he passed away. The internet really fucked these guys over, as they expected their videos to be sold to a few gay guys on DVD and VHS for personal use only. They didn’t expect that the $200 Vinnie gave them to suck their cocks at age 18 would end up being watched millions of times by the public for the rest of their lives.
Paulie couldn’t get away from the drugs, and leaned into his past and the Straight Guys Seduced videos. Not being fresh meat anymore, he jumped into the BDSM lane, to marginal success. He moved out of RI and lived down South with a family member until his death.
Corey went in a different direction. This is only from being an observer, since I have never met him, unfortunately. He has almost no social media presence, and has only posted two pictures on his one page, where his face isn’t clearly shown. He is a union worker in the building trades, and seems to be living a normal life.
Buzz worked for my company as a summer job after he graduated high school, which was before he hooked up with Vinny. He was a very sexy and good looking young man, and despite being tempted, I never made an attempt to be anything but his boss and friend, since as his boss I wouldn’t have felt right about it. He was a very hard worker, who wasn’t too school oriented and it was clear that he was going to be a laborer as a career. I was surprised to see him as one of the stars on Vinny’s site, especially seeing him getting barebacked, at a time where that was unusual in gay porn.
I didn’t see or hear from him for years, and ran into him like a decade later when he was working at a store I went to. He recognized me right away, and thanked me for giving him his first job. He was still good looking, a family man with a bunch of kids. We were supposed to get together to have a beer and catch up, but never did, and I lost touch with him. I never got the chance to see if his appearances negatively affected his life, but he, like Corey, doesn’t have a social media presence.
Many of the “models” ended up being friends with each other, partying together, chasing girls. From what Paulie told me, the vast majority of them were straight. At the beginning, Boston was Vinny’s favorite, and lived with him for a while, until they had a falling out. He didn’t know Boston’s real name. Out of the guys Paulie was friends with, most of them have struggled in life.
Straight Boyz Seduced to me is the best example of young straight trade of any porn site ever. 18-22 year old straight guys in need of money for drugs, weed, and booze, go to kick back and watch straight porn and get their cocks serviced from a chill, skilled cocksucker. The only difference from this and what young straight guys have been doing for generations is there was a camera there.
Too bad Vinny is deceased. I’d like to chat with him about his experiences with his company and his models.