The Secret Life of Small Time Porn, Part 3 :: Lights, Camera, Actors!

Meet Lucas Gabriel - Porn Actor

Lukas is a beautiful young man - a mix of a Caucasian and Native American mother, and African American father. His unblemished skin is the color of rich maple syrup darkened further on exposure to sun.

His eyes are a stunning green against bronze skin providing a gateway to a charming, intelligently funny, quick-witted mind ready to delve into any subject that arises. Lukas, whose porn name is Lucas Gabriel, stands tall, slender and straight casually attired. His is one of those presences that cause eyes to turn and follow.

Lukas, 22, grew up one of four boys in London, Ohio. By eight years old he knew he was gay when he took a dare to kiss a boy at school. The kissed boy was startled, almost as much as Lukas was pleased. The kissed boy went home to alert Mom who alerted the school who alerted Lukas' Mom, who ignored the incident for what it appeared a childhood prank.

He became sexually active in his early teens after his parents divorced and a move from sleepy London to live with his father in the big city of Columbus.

A self-kept journal served as Lukas' outlet in the absence of a deep paternal or fraternal relationship. It also served as his outing, when at 14, a big brother found the journal and shared it with the family.

Dad was accepting. Mom severely scolded him. For punishment she made Lukas read the bible. In addition she grounded him for the entire summer - or until he was no longer gay. His grounding ended when she kicked him out of the house at 15. Lukas lived in a group home for one year until extended family rescued him.

It was after that that he lost his virginity on his sweet 16 birthday to a football player on the high school football field after the homecoming game.

High school yielded good grades and found him living with an uncle and aunt. They cared enough to keep him focused and prepare him for his stint at the Ohio State University where he recently completed his third year studying architecture. Those three years have saddled him with $53,000 of student debt.

While still in high school Lukas was contacted by Tom exploring his interest in doing risqu� modeling. They spent three years periodically chatting about modeling prior to Lukas finally making his decision.

With just a year more to go he left OSU accepting Tom's airline ticket and offer of housing, eventually planning to enroll in a Florida university to finish his architectural education.

In Ohio he had a less than supportive family so giving up his life there for Florida came easily to Lukas. Without regret he would do the same thing again.

The commitment to his decision, and his continuing comfort with it, arises from the support he has received from Tom, as well as, his other housemates. It also helped that he was able achieve his goals very quickly.

One customer has been particularly valuable in helping him get on his feet in his newly chosen home.

Lukas believes his initial success, and his ongoing escort business focus is unique. His personalized approach minimizes physical sex to the benefit of personal services. He believes it's his willingness to engage customers on an intellectual and emotional level that sets him apart. With a knowing grin he suggests his morality gets in the way but won't doom his business.

Focusing on escorting has worked well for him though he is OK with acting in porn shoots. Lukas prefers escorting to filming. Filming is chaotic, time consuming, lots of down time and waiting, and doesn't pay particularly well. Film has the added liability of remaining forever, while escorting is generally with people on the down low who don't want to be known.

It's easy to see Lukas as a businessman. He plans on escorting and doing some porn shoots for four months before getting a mainstream job. The plan includes keeping his best one or two customers even with that job.

Lukas wants a life partner. But he knows it will be difficult to impossible to achieve that goal while he continues to escort. So that mainstream job becomes a critical part of his life plan.

Several months have passed since my initial interview with Lukas. I recently had the pleasure of meeting him again.

He was proud to announce his plans are on track, he no longer performs in gay porn shoots, has two regular escort customers, and recently started a full time job in the tourism industry.

Shooting Gay Porn

Justin, whose porn name is Zakk Matthews, is restrained, naked, and flat on his back on the table. Each extremity points at a corner, wrapped in a wide black leather cuff connected to a turnbuckle linking a heavy chain that runs off the edge.

Lukas, whose porn name is Lucas Gabriel, has done the deed, preparing Justin for a porn shoot featuring erotic tickling. The stage is set, lit from all sides with set lighting, the table holding Justin backed into a white painted corner. Three cameras run marked only by a silently blinking red indicator light on each.

Tanner monitors the three cameras fixed on tripods at strategic points focusing on the scene. He has to be certain that each is recording and the video is of good quality. One needs an adjustment and he moves it a few inches to remove a shadow on the table.

Tom Moran with Orlando Models sits on a chair watching but detached from the activity. He has filmed so many of the scenes he seems barely interested and I wonder if he will even remember filming the scene two weeks from now. Tanner's call to the porn actors to go ahead brings Toms' attention back to the set.

Brian steps out the shadows stopping next to Justin on the table as Lukas assumes his position on the other side. Together they put both of their hands on Justin's flat belly. Slowly, they caress him.

Justin's breath comes faster. He holds his belly rigid refusing to allow the sensations to reach his brain. The other two lift their palms leaving only their fingertips in contact with Justin.

He begins to struggle as the fingertips probe his belly and around his waist. Wriggling against the restraints yields little relief and again he tries to detach the tickling from reaching his brain.

Lukas and Brian alternately lighten and deepen their touch, speed up and slow down their motions and move from belly to chest, legs and feet. Justin is in full flail now being relentlessly tickled by four hands attached to two naked male hunks.

Not that Justin sees either of his tormentors as his eyes are crushed shut, his breath is roaring in and out and his body is spasmodically contorting bouncing from side to side head to toe straining his restraints. Chain rattling is drowned out by Justin's cries, pleading for his tormentors to stop the torture. One does stop, only to begin stroking and massaging, bringing Justin closer and closer, as Lukas continues to tickle.

As Justin tires the scene slows, a full on sex scene ensues. The three porn actors stretch out the scene to its prescribed length of twelve minutes and end it in true porn fashion. The money shots are captured.

Lukas unbuckles Justin. Brian offers him a hand and with cocked elbow leans back to pull Justin to sitting. He swings his legs to the floor and stands. The three remain huddled together quickly moving from the completed scene to chattering about an escort customer Lukas has later.

Tanner takes down the cameras packing them each carefully into carry cases. He dismantles lighting and collects power cables. The restraints need to be collected.

Tom sits as before on his chair, happy the work is done. Getting three gay porn actors to the same place at the same time is a good start. Getting excellent quality, fully engaged acting on video is his business.