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For some people, porn awards are literally nothing. Really. They're just another silly thing porn stars do. But those people are NOT porn stars and they are not in the business of creating erotica. They are not the ones who are sex workers. They are not the ones that spend hours producing the videos that so many people jerk off to (yeah, even those who do not pay for porn, natch). Homosexuals watch porn. Heterosexuals watch porn. Asexuals watch porn (yes, they do). Many, many people watch porn and they don't, for a second, think about the performers who give them so much pleasure. Kind of Selfish, they are.

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But I like following the lives and times of gay Porn stars. And I like Rhyheim. So when I found that video of him accepting the award he has won, I had to post it here. It's almost funny to think that someone whose occupation hinges on showing every inch of his body on camera while performing almost gymnastic sex acts, could be almost bashful when accepting an award. But we never know, right? Again, we cannot judge a book by its cover. It's a mistake we often make and keep doing even when we are showed time and again that it's a silly thing to do.

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Rhyheim's porn output is just the right combination of lust and savoir faire. It teeters the line between gonzo camerawork and crisp cinematography. It's intimate, yet the attention to production is there. There is a lot of work that goes into creating porn, and Mr. Shabazz makes it seem almost easy. And that, my dears, is a feat that needs to be recognized. And it was. Rhyheim won the Performer of the Year Award at the 2022 Str8UpGayPorn Awards. Yay him. Well deserved. Oh, and if you are not familiar with his oeuvre, just follow the hyperlinks. Yes, you can find free porn online. I know, shocking, right?

It has been a somehow interesting year for Rhyheim Shabazz, mind you. Apart from being recognized as a performer, he was the first gay Porn Star to achieve the milestone of having one million followers on Twitter. I published something about it. Only to be sabotaged and put in Twitter jail for undisclosed offences. And coincidentally,  so was his boyfriend, Elijah Zayne, and his cameraman, EyeFlimzX. You could almost say it was a concrete effort to get him off of social media. All went dark at the same time. All without any explanation. It was almost as if haters somebody would have reported them for undisclosed violations out of... jealousy? 

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But now Rhyheim is back on social media and he's slowly but surely building back his following. And both his OnlyFans and his JustForFans seem to be doing quite well, thankyouverymuch. He is, pretty much a content creator, a man who controls his output and who seems to be doing quite well without being tied to a specific porn studio. He basically creates the content he wants. And his fans seem to like it. A lot.  Amateur porn is here to stay.

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So congratulations, Mr. Shabazz. Well deserved. Let’s hope it’s the first of many awards he wins. He has gone from a capable but somehow limited-range performer on TimTales to a well-rounded bona fide Porn Star who controls his own porn output. Kudos. And now, if you excuse me, I have to do some... research. I just realized there are some new things on his Twitter feed that I have not seen before. The things one does for blogging, right?

XOXO