There's frequent grumbling from readers of this blog when I classify Randy Blue and Sean Cody as "amateur" sites. I won't argue that many of the sites have exceeded big-studio quality ... but they didn't start this way; they've changed the game.

I remember the first time I legitimately saw amateur gay porn. Picture it: late nineties, most people got their porn at video stores. A friend told me about these videos that only this one store in particular rented. You had to ask for them at the counter because the videos didn't have boxes or even labels -- they were dubs of dubs and they were most often checked out. 

The grainy, shaky videos were by a man named Bobby Garcia (himself was such a troll that he would make Jake Cruise look like George Clooney). In them he'd get guys -- often in the military -- to jerk off and fuck around with each other. Unlike his contemporaries Dink Flamingo and Dirk Yates, you'd often see Bobby's grubby paw reach into the frame and try to touch their cocks. Sometimes they'd swat it away, sometimes they'd just let him slather baby oil on them. Sometimes he'd he'd throw a couple of twenties at them and then they'd let him do whatever he wanted to them.

At once both abjectly repulsive and strangely compelling, to me it was the essence of pornography and I was instantly hooked. Recently I found all of Mr. Garcia's work online at AWOL Marines in all their flickery, green-hued glory and I was instantly reminded just how "amateur" amateur porn could be.

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