“We're seeing more real people, real situations, and real things going on because in porn, you're not getting to that place of being comfortable,” he said. He said creaming wasn’t popular in studio porn from decades ago, but that with the rise of sites like Xtube, which showcases amateur videos, creaming has become more popular. Performer Chino Blac, who has been working in porn on and off since 2016, agrees. “I feel like was there before, and things were being edited out,” he said. Because platforms like OnlyFans have made it easier for performers to make a profit off of their intimate videos, studios have had to find ways to compete by featuring kinks, fetishes, and trends that have become interests for the average porn consumer. ” His adult videos consistently garner thousands of retweets and likes and usually showcase a performer creaming, a feature that’s become a signature part of his videos. On the subject of creaming, specifically its absence in early-2000s porn and subsequent rise in studio porn today, he said, “I'm going to arrogantly take credit for this because I hadn't seen it before. The 32-year-old DC-based performer has been making porn for three years after realizing that he could make being an adult star a viable career path. ( Here’s what his stage name means if you’re curious.) “Again, was my only reference so I didn't really know that this was some kind of anomaly,” he said. “I noticed that it was just common whenever I had sex,” another performer named Phatrabbitkiller told me. I spoke with both a proctologist about the science behind creaming and performers (who all chose to be identified by their stage names) about the trend and the lengths that some of them have seen others go to in order to make themselves appear to be natural creamers.
And with the rise of direct-to-consumer platforms like OnlyFans and JustForFans, creaming appears to be more popular. You could argue it has become the ultimate signifier of mind-blowing sex, especially within Black gay porn. Online, especially on Twitter, there are debates over whether or not creaming is a legitimate bodily reaction (it is!) or whether it’s something the person producing the cream should get checked out by a physician (possibly!).
While creaming can occur in straight sex, creaming in the context of gay porn is when the bottom, the performer in the receptive position, produces a translucent, sometimes white, substance from their anus, a reaction to the pleasure they’re experiencing from the top, the insertive partner. “I never really knew what creaming was,” Blackstone said, “but I just knew that the tops would always say, ‘You creamy,’ and I would be like, ‘What the fuck is that?’” (He has a regular 9-to-5 job in public health advocating for HIV prevention and awareness.) But in his many years of experience, there’s one aspect of gay sex that, until he turned 25, remained a mystery: the act of creaming. JD Blackstone, a 33-year-old amateur adult performer based in Atlanta, has been working as a porn star - on-again, off-again - for about a decade.