Author's note:
Intergalactic Porn Star is a work of gay male science fiction. Set in the distant future, it follows the adventures of a man who's recruited by an organisation that provides hard core gay porn to Earth's interstellar colonies.
It features staged scenes of extreme bondage, dominance and submission, and watersports between consenting adults who enjoy their work.
In addition, it also explores Ryan's personal relationships with his new coworkers.
Any reluctance or distress depicted is written as being deliberately portrayed by the actors as part of the scene. However, if you find this kind of content disturbing, I urge you to read something else. My Will and Jesse stories are much softer in nature. See my profile for details.
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"Can I get you a drink?"
I glanced up to see an older guy leaning against the bar.
"Sure." I showed him the bottle in my hand. I never was one to turn down a free drink.
The man gave his order to the barman, then held his hand out for me to shake.
"Chester Greaves."
"Ryan," I said, thinking this was unusual. I wasn't against fucking older guys, but they generally didn't introduce themselves with a handshake.
Our drinks arrived, and he flicked the credits across the bar.
"How old are you, Ryan?"
I got that all the time. I looked my age, which for most guys, meant they were a lot older, and taking supplements.
"Twenty-eight. As of this fall."
"And all this is natural, if I'm not mistaken?" Chester waved a hand to indicate my physique.
I was in good shape, but if you looked twice, you could tell I wasn't on the usual cocktail of bio-improvement supplements most gay guys took to stay looking as young as possible.
My build and muscle tone were the result of my parents' attention to good genes, a lot of hours spent working out, and a healthy diet that complemented my healthy sex drive. Why no supplements? Pure ego. I was proud of my body and wanted other guys to notice it was natural.
"I want to show you something," said Chesterβand that's where my potential hookup for the evening took a weird turn.
He flashed up a piece of brochureware in the air in front of me and I glanced sideways at him as it started to play, trying to figure out what his game was. Some kind of salesman?
A logo I knew well from hours watching porn flashed up, a purple and black logo that read 'IGPN'βwhich every gay man knew stood for 'Intergalactic Gay Porn Network'βknown colloquially as 'the network'.
The logo faded, and a video started to play of a fit guy being sucked off by a skinny femme, while the camera angle rotated around them 360 degrees. They were both on supps, judging by the skinny guy's baby-face, and the size of the fit guy's muscles. Colony adult entertainment law insisted all performers were at least twenty years old, in an effort to prevent abuse of minors, so I knew there was no way in hell the skinny guy was as young as he looked.
A voiceover played as the video moved on to show a 3D model of the colonies.
"Operating from our state of the art facility on Luyten B, IGPN is the largest gay adult entertainment provider to the Earth colonies, exporting content to Earth, Proxima Centauri and Gliese. In addition, IGPN supplies over eighty percent of the adult offerings provided to clients by the interstellar transit market, with over four billion hours of content consumed per Earth year. Catering to even the most niche demands, IGPN is proud to be have been recently voted 'The Only Gay Adult Entertainment Provider You Need', by 'BoundD' magazine."
The video cut to a virtual tour through the network's facilities, which seemed to be set in the middle of a tropical jungle. It showed off the fancy living quarters, top quality chef-prepared meals, then a montage of young, fit men in tight shorts working out in a gym, wearing tiny speedos as they swum laps and played water polo, played shirtless football, and coated in sweat as they wrestled on an IGPN branded mat.
"Our models are treated with the greatest respect, with yearly bonuses reaching into the tens of millions of credits for our top performers."
The video showed a bunch of guys, some who I'd wanked to on slow days, smiling into the camera, with their screen names and earnings displayed under their grinning faces.
"Enquire now and see if IGPN is the right FIT for you."
That was some top quality advertising copy right there.
The brochureware blinked out of existence and I looked Chester up and down, this silver-haired older guy, with a stomach soft from too many expensive meals. He clearly didn't take supplements either... unless he was actually in his hundreds.
"Why are you showing this to me?" I asked.
"Right now, we're looking for men like you who don't rely on chemical enhancement in order to look... well, frankly, extremely fuckable."
I took the compliment.
"The demand for natural bodies is an emerging market," he went on, "...and it pays exceptionally well."
Yeah, we all knew that, but not everyone wanted to fuck on camera where their parents might one day see their dick sliding up another guy's butt.
"Why the hell would I get into porn?" I asked.
"The same reason anyone does. More money than you'll ever earn anywhere else."
I shrugged and drained my drink. "I earn just fine."
I didn't, but that wasn't the point. Besides, there was no way I was doing whatever the porn stars earning 'tens of millions' of credits were willing to do. I knew the drill. Most of the performers in the industry earned ten percent between them what one top performer earned in a year.
Chester flicked a number up in front of my eyes. It was an exact number, one I'd committed to heart. The current cost of a ticket to Gliese. Everyone I knew, everyone my age, dreamed of somehow making it to Gliese... well, specifically Gliese 832C. It was the ultimate destination for people my age, right at the edge of the colonies, not subject to standard Earth law.
Five times the size of Earth, it was tilted on its axis and tidally locked, so that half of it lay in perpetual darkness, and half of it was perpetually light. Temperatures fluctuated wildly between the two sides, with the borderland between the two around the same as a balmy day in Manitoba. One of the features of Gliese 832 was the Border Stripβa notorious equatorial habitat that existed in perpetual sunset. You can imagine the views.
Problem was, Gliese 832 was over sixteen
light
years away, and on a cheap cryo transit, of the kind I could afford, that was forty-four Earth years in space, taken in four alternating hibernation shifts. Biologically, I'd be nearly fifty by the time I got there, and the world would have moved on. And while fifty was only a quarter of my life down, and supplements were readily available, something about all that time locked on a ship, bored out of my brain, didn't appeal.
I'd decided a couple of years ago to give up on seeing Gliese while I was young, and work on saving up to migrate to the next closest colony planet as soon as I could, hoping to only lose five bio years off my life. But with the money Chester was offering, there was another way. The most expensive way. Hopgates.
A hopgate could get you there with no aging, no cryo shifts. In fact,
no
time lost, meaning you'd arrive on the planet as advertised.