It was the first commercial producer to specialize in bareback films as part of the emerging s underground interest in the pre-condom era of gay porn that was concerned with the freedom of the sexual experience. Morris said Treasure Island Media was established for "preserving the integrity of pornography and the honest representation of male sexual behavior. When I started producing porn, the genre had become depressingly corrupt, representing only a small subset of sexual behaviors [ I also wanted to document the men.
I wasn't interested in what they looked like, I was interested in what they understood regarding the complex behavioral language of sex among men. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation tried several times to have California's Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health's Appeals Board force companies in the pornography industry to treat actors and actresses as employees subject to occupational safety and health regulation; in a case brought against Treasure Island Media an administrative judge found that the company did have to comply with regulations.
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