I recently had a conversation with someone on Twitter that made me wonder about this. After finding out that a parody of South Park had been produced, I asked about who played the character of Cartman. I figured that they would try to get an actor who looked something like the character, i.e., overweight. But the actor who played Cartman looks like nothing like the character. I then started thinking of other male actors who could possibly have played the role of Cartman. Of course, I tried thinking of male performers who were on the heavier side. It was when I couldn't think of any that it occurred to me that there are currently no fat dudes in porn, and I could help wondering why this is the case.
We all already know why there are no fat women in porn. It's because the women are all supposed to be attractive, which means thin with big tits. But this has traditionally not been the same standard for men. I remember back when people used to say that the way the men in porn looked was unimportant because (1) the men watching don't really care what the men on-screen look like, and (2) the men watching actually prefer to see men in porn who are more average-looking because they are more able to identify with average-looking guys than some actor who looks like an Adonis. Take Ron Jeremy, for example. He has been called the most recognizable man in porn. He was the most famous and frequently used man in porn for many years, getting to fuck many of the hottest starlets of the time. But in a porn landscape full of guys who all look like they have 0% body fat, would a guy who looks like Ron Jeremy be able to find steady work in porn today?
The only man in porn who I can think of who comes close to this description might be Manuel Ferrara. Even though Manuel is not fat, he bears a closer resemblance to the average, everyday man than many of his male porn peers do. Although he's not fat, he also doesn't look like the type of guy who spends 20 hours in the gym everyday either, and has a normal amount of weight about him. He's also one of the only men in porn who actually keeps his body hair, and doesn't shave himself down like a Brazilian hooker. As I've said before, I don't know of any men outside of porn who shave or wax their body/pubic hair. This is one of those strange things that only guys in porn do. But the fact that Manuel has a normal male body shape and keeps all his body hair actually allows him to look like a regular, everyday, normal-looking man, which I think is part of his large appeal and popularity. Guys watching his movies can actually identify with him more than some muscle-bound jock whose been completely waxed from the neck down. Unlike so many other male pornstars, Manuel actually looks like a "real man," so to speak.
But for the most part, it looks like porn has abandoned the whole idea that regular-looking men with realistic body shapes can be welcome in porn. I'm not saying that porn should start casting guys who are ugly slobs and weigh 400 lbs. But it would refreshing if this generation of porn viewers had our own Ron Jeremy, or atleast a few more guys don't all look like they belong on a steroid bottle.
After all, we have plenty of skinny, scrawny dudes in porn, like Jules Jordan, James Deen, and others. But where are all the guys representing the chubby dudes? Why no more of them anymore?