It's been a long time (more than a year!) since the last update, but we're still here! The latest image set involves redscaled film. With any luck, we'll have more content before too long. Also, some of the alt text has been updated on previous image sets. The Fag Boy Files still has some missing alt text and this will be addressed soon.
It has come to our attention that Carta Monir has started a website dedicated to the free distribution of pornography. Carta is the person who was our inspiration for the hog slapping photoset (I cannot for the life of me find the relevant piece of art of her's that inspired it or I would link to it). Her website blood.video was started, as she explains it, because most 'platforms' don't permit the kind of art that she creates and most credit card processors - even those who serve 'high-risk' industries - won't conduct business with anyone trying to sell it. These are the same reasons that this site is free and open. We know that any attempt to monitize the work posted here would certainly result in endless business, logistical, and legal trouble.
Monitization is something that we've been thinking about quite a bit recently because we have other projects - including a short film - that we would like to produce; some explicitly pornographic and others not so much. Money would allow these projects to happen more quickly because we'd be able to actually offer the people working on them something of value for the labor they'd perform. However, one problem with attempting to monitize any of it is that we'd be giving creative control to 'platforms', advertisers, banks, payment processors, etc. Even if a scene isn't 'pornographic', it can easily be 'too graphic' or 'not advertiser friendly' and these limits are more strict when the scene depicts queer people (especially if they are experiencing joy), women having sex (especially with their consent), the reality of capitalist violence, or resistance against capitalist violence (especially if a capitalist is shown being held individually responsible for their actions). The Hays code is unfortunately alive and well today. We don't have any serious desire to make or distribute art which doesn't touch on one of more of these themes, so our options are either to accept censorship or release art for free. We choose the latter.
Carta states in the explainer video for her website that she hopes that others will choose a similar path - to produce art without censorship via similar methods. I hope that this website has done the same over the last year and a half and will continue to do so into the future.
We didn't shoot anything new for Pride month because we were too busy fucking to stop and take pictures. But we did find some time to post the hog slapping image set mentioned in our last update just before the month is out, so happy pride, faggots! As always, more to come later.
The last uploaded image set had a lot of non-working links (about half of all links on the page did not function), those have now been fixed. About half of the images have alt text so far, the remainder will be coming as we continue work on the site. In other news, we'll be adding at least one new image set in the near future. (No surprise: the definition of "near" is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence.)
Thanks to much hard work by the staff here at the Department of Gratuitous Ecstasy, our first image set is now live! It can be accessed from the links on the main page. Less than two weeks after this department commenced operations, we have delivered evidence of queer joy - something that cowardly, unfuckable men in positions of great influence in the government claim is impossible. Not only that, we have done it for almost no money. Therefore, it is with great pride that we can say: Mission Accomplished! And unlike the unfuckable idiot who said that back in 2003, we've actually done something. Stay tuned for more!
Thanks to Let's Encrypt, this website is now running on HTTPS! This represents a large leap forward for the Department of Gratuitous Ecstasy's information security operations!
We have also created our blog section separate from the main page of the website in preparation for the pornographic sections to be added. Gratuitous queer pornography is on the way. Stay tuned!
Whereas Elon Cuck, co-head of the DoGE (Department of Government "Efficiency") hates queer people. The Department of Gratuitous Ecstasy has commenced pornographic operations in the spirit of the liberation of all queer people.
Extremely gay pornography will be placed here in the near-ish future. Stay tuned!