Do you like porn?

你喜欢GV么？

If you’re a gay man, probably. But while the product is meant to be a mindless escape, its production is a rich and controversial subject, even in a community legendarily open about sexuality.

如果你是男同志，那么答案或许是肯定的。但GV注定是一种对现实愚蠢的逃避，即便是对性倾向非常开放的社会，GV的生产发行虽然利润颇丰却一直争议不断。

When the phrase ^“Bel Ami” is uttered, very few gay men think first of Guy de Mau-passant’s second novel. In-stead, images of countless "beautiful friends”一porn- stars—from Eastern Europe come to mind, young men like Lukas Ridgeston and Johan Paulik, with eye-popping endowments and legit movie-star looks and a per-formance style worlds away (Bratislava, to be exact) from the moves that characterize American porn films. There’s almost a wholesome quality to Bel Ami’s smut, even if the action is as dirty as the business.

当说到Bel Ami, 没有哪个gay第一个想到的会是莫泊桑的第二部小说，而是无数”漂亮的朋友“（译者注：bel ami法语中就是“漂亮朋友“的意思）——来自东欧的GV男优，他们像Lukas Ridgeston和Johan Paulik一样，天生具有吸引人眼球的外貌以及纯正的电影明星长相，体位动作具有典型的美国色情电影的风格，这与布拉迪斯拉发（译者注：捷克斯洛伐克一城市）的风格相去甚远。尽管GV产业肮脏无比，但Bel Ami的GV可以说几乎是纤尘不染的。

Speaking of which, the porn industry has undergone a slew of changes in recent years. Beaten down by easy access to free porn online, crowded out by amateur exhibitionists and in some cases ill-equipped to adapt to the market’s declining interest in DVDs as opposed to downloads, video compa-nies have come and gone and publishers have mostly just gone.

说到色情产业，最近几年经历了相当多的变化。如今网上色情信息唾手可得，业余自拍数不胜数，这些都给传统的色情业以沉重的打击。而有些公司不提供下载服务 ，DVD发行利润又不断下降，这些导致设备陈旧，使得影视公司在GV制作发行领域来了又走，而出版商则基本全部选择退出市场。

Then there is the hot-button issue of bareback porn, which for many years during the onset of the AIDS crisis was absolutely taboo-Can actors be as-sured of the status of their co-stars? Does marketing it encourage unsafe sex among viewers? Does anyone care if the money is there?—but which has quickly become a major aspect of the industry in spite of some companies’ seemingly principled refus-als to succumb to it.

还有就是一个热点话题：无套性交，随着艾滋病的疯狂蔓延，无套性交完全成了一种禁忌。（公司）能否保证GV演员们有个健康的男优和他合作？发售无套性交的色情制品能否起到鼓励观看者进行不安全性交的作用？如果GV卖出的钱就摆在那儿，有人关心会无套性交带来的种种么？尽管一些公司的表面严词拒绝拍摄无套GV，实际上仍然屈从于利润，这样无套GV也就迅速成为了GV产业的一面旗帜。

With the news that the venerable COLT has filed for bankruptcy, I wondered how other companies were faring and wanted to bring up some of the issues that surround the porn industry. What bet-ter company to focus on than one of the largest still stand-ing? What follows is my in-terview with George Duroy, the founder and president of Bel Ami. He, more than anyone, has an interest in figuring out if gay men will automatically think of his product when the phrase "Bel Ami" is uttered in the future.

Since this was an e-mail interview, the follow-up questions to some of his most provocative answers will have to come in the form of your comments at the end.

随着GV公司COLT递交破产保护申请的消息传来，我很好奇其他公司境况如何以及他们要如何应对围绕着色情产业出现的一系列问题。当最大的公司之一仍屹立不倒之时，其他公司要把注意力集中到哪儿才能做的更好呢？下面是我对Bel Ami公司的创始人兼总裁George Duroy进行的采访。他比其他人更想要知道以后在提到Bel Ami的时候男同志们会不会自动联想到他的产品。

由于这是一次邮件采访，下面他最具有挑逗意味的一些回答，其问题可能最终都来源于你们的评论。

——未完待续