In a short but arresting (actually, could someone really get arrested for this?) photo essay from Treasure Island Media’s Paul Morris, a young man injects drugs while sitting naked on a couch.
I’m assuming that’s heroin in there, and I’m assuming this 21-year-old model—who, according to Morris, is gay-for-pay and “cooked enough for two shots and saved the rest for later”—likes attention. Well, here you go.
Comments on the photos (“revolting,” “sad,” and “horrifying”) read like the reactions to most disturbing images on the internet, but some have praised Morris (“I’m fascinated by the brutal honesty,” “Sexy! I’m hard!”) for his work. I just wish the guy could’ve gotten hard, but I guess that’s one of the downsides of being a junkie.
You might be right about Mapplethorpe. But i know for 100% that Paul Morris gave the kid the money to buy the stuff.
Wow, have I wandered into a Focus on the Family moralist blog? Many art photographers have taken shots of drug addicts in the process of getting high, including Robert Mapplethorpe. How is this shot any different? Because the photographer also shoots porn? Mapplethorpe also shot porn. The photographer is only shooting what is in front of him.
Welp that ends my relationship with TIM, I’ll never buy anything from them again
Derek Jarman already did this 25 years ago with dark eroticism and artistry in England’s Dreaming. TI does it with tasteless exploitation and pretends it’s art. It’s not even hot.
Paul Morris is smart and wants to be your cult leader. Too bad he’s unable to apply a thing he’s learned to his videos. It only shows how low the bar is in porn that a faker like him can get even faint praise for this derivative crap.
hmmmm.
as a former drug addict, i would say this. the boy/man is not most of what the men here have called him. there is no real reason someone becomes an addict. rich and poor do it. good or bad childhoods do it. gay or gay for pay do it.
what is clear is that hate is not the answer nor the outcome of his life. many folks are just fine being drug addicts, live there whole lives quite well. for him, not so sure, that is a tough drug.
what i would say is that he needs to be “cared” for. not as daddy. not as trade. i think most drug addicts are a bit lost. some more than others. what they need to know is that someone is there when they decide they want to quit.
Mason,
You would fuck him and then fill out a police report claiming he drugged and raped you.
Once again Paul Morris shows his true fascination with the eroticization of sex and death! Typical disgusting Treasure Island behavior of trying to make risky stuff sexy….is anyone surprised!?
Sad. Very sad. I was at the line with videos of guys injecting saline into their balls and cocks, this just deplorably crosses the line.
Wow. Well, he keeps that up and he won’t look that awesome for very long…
That’s because you have no standards and frequently bring this type of boy home Mason =-)
IM not shocked by this photo. (I was a homeless kid @16 and have seen much worse.) He looks like he hasn’t been on that “horse” very long. Help is 10 X harder to find than the drugs. On the Street Straight boys often have gay sex to pay for their Drugs. The danger from using IV Drugs; and the Unprotected Sex = ( HIV Double Indemnity) If you want Honesty ? ” I see a dead boy”
This makes me sad. And very aroused. Yes, I am ashamed.
I can’t help wondering what this boy’s motives are and why he allowed himself to be photographed. Bold defiance at those who would judge him? Exhibitionism? Too fucked up to care?
I’d have sex with him.
just a major cry for help boy needs an intervention and that fucking couch!
and to praise him for being “honest” really? ok you have a drug problem and now we know it now get help and really “be honest” with yourself.
What.
The.
Fuck.
This is absolutely deplorable, why would any studio allow this or even think about publishing it?
Wow.
sad…pass on this loser
Ashame.
Thank Mother Theresa he’s gay-for-pay. A true gay would never.
Disgusting. And sad.