Soft White Underbelly

No.

Yes.

[quote]Has this been discussed here before?

So many times, OP.

What’s the story with the photographer who runs it? I came across these videos last night when I could not sleep and now a can’t for the rest of the week.

Oops should have done a search.

Sugar baby is a thing?

This new interview is suspect to me. Polish guy who said his family moved to US when he was two years old. If so, why does he have such a strong accent. I've interacted with many Poles in NYC and their accents when speaking English never sounded like this. He sounds to me like has an Israeli (aka Hebrew) accent.

Also, I'm also quite suspicious of any male claiming to be a gigolo exclusively with female clients. I'm not saying it's impossible but very unlikely. Usually they are forced to see male clients too since there aren't enough females out there willing to pay for sex with a male.

Sugar Baby is a truly deluded fuck up.

I found the SWU videos last year and for a number of days I was just sucked into them.

I eventually came to my senses; realized I was feeding on tragic lives; confessed my sins and gave them up.

R7 is frightening.

R6 He came to the states when he was 11. He said his mom took off when he was 2 but he was still in Poland where he was raised by his Baba and aunt.

IMHO he looks Polish, and sounds like a lot of Slavs who move to NYC. He was probably in Greenpoint or other parts of Brooklyn that have many Polish stores and restaurants. He mentions NJ too, where there is a large Pole scene.

R6 interjects the age old, hotly contested DL topic of male escorts with a strictly female clientele.

New Soft White Underbelly, FTM sex worker Haskell. Munchkin sounding voice (check), facial hair (check), hypersexuality (check)

"I love to be a slut and be paid for it."

Haskell having sex with two cis gender males-

Get me a re-write on that dialogue. Oy vey!

Had a binge phase with this channel but eventually became disgusted with myself. Grief/tragedy/porn/porn.

This one is scary and depressing. What a waste.

True, it’s misery porn. Depressing. One should stay away from it.

Apparently, attractive people are not psychiatric cases or addicts in that carefully curated world of the maker's asshole.

I had no idea Satan worship was so prevalent in the sex industry! I wonder why that is??

Are there any long term health consequences to having anal sex multiple times a day, 5X or more a week, with strangers?

Yes you gonna gape 2 death

Other than wet farts now and again…not really.

R6 Agree that 99% of women don't pay for sex. Perhaps he offers platonic escort services i.e., "a walker" to wealthy older women.

R23 There are so few women needing this service.

These guys at the least allow men to blow them or do muscle worship as they jack off.

R20 Ive never heard of any snap consequences except for prolapse but I know a woman who said her female friend was such a whore that she lost complete control of her pelvic muscles. I guess she’s piss herself all the time because she couldn’t hold it. She was in her 40s.

Lol r25 women don't lose control of their pelvic muscles because of sex. Vaginas are designed for intercourse. Women's pelvic floor muscles may weaken after childbirth, though.

R25 is retarted

I love the one featuring the hacker Gummo. He’s a programming genius from a hardcore white trash Florida background who made a fortune in early telecom and then mining bitcoin. Its very moving especially when he talks about his wife, who stuck by him at his lowest point.

What the hell is that creepy thing OP posted?

These are tragic and we should feel empathy for them, but if R7 video subject says “literally” or “obsessed” one more time, I’ll kill it with fire.

I only watched the one about an incest family and I felt disgusted afterwards. Those people just need help and intervention, not some filmmaker filming it for the Youtube clicks. Depressing.

This guy films people SO badly. Everyone looks rolled in dirt.

r23 = Joe Buck

This is misery porn and exploitative. The guy who produces them is often in Joe Rogan and full of himself.

The guy who films these videos pays the performers and he is known as a “talking trick”.

It feels performative and exploitive.

Well, at least he has a job.

The creator is a highly accomplished commercial photographer.

It’s interesting that his day job is perfecting merchandise to the utmost degree in slick images, and his personal obsession is these grimy, burn out, broken people.

I sometimes wonder if Mark fucks his subjects. Or is he just a ‘talking trick’ as R35 says.

In memory of Soft White Underbelly interviewees who have passed away

Here's gay sex worker Stephan's original video, who according to the video above is now deceased.

[quote] This guy films people SO badly. Everyone looks rolled in dirt.

I think he lights them well and it's actually flattering, IMO.

I would bet money that he (Mark) was highly influenced by Avedon's "American West" photos.

Just watched the in memoriam video at r40 earlier this morning. Very moving and thought provoking. Should be required viewing

[quote]R42 I would bet money that he (Mark) was highly influenced by Avedon's "American West" photos.

Yes! Though I was at first thinking it resembled a collection by Mary Ellen Mark.

But you’re right, i was thinking of that 1985 Avedon book.

Yet another straight guy getting involved in sex with other guys to get drug money. I actually thought this interviewee, Brandon, was gonna reveal he was FTM during this interview but he never did so I guess he really is a biological male.His voice sounding a bit like somebody speaking after sucking in some helium was what threw me off.

The upload today, Cameron, is a gay guy. His drag queen persona is "Elleven DiVine". I'm only half way through it but i can already tell he's trouble. Not bad looking as a dude but I feel sorry for anybody befriending him.

He says he didn't realize he was raped by two neighborhood boys while growing up with until speaking with his therapist and discovering he suffers from repressed memory trauma. (Eye roll). He's been to rehab dozens of times including one in Hawaii he went to and he wasn't even living there at the time.

I don’t think the guy at R45 is straight.

R40 So much darkness and each person experiences a different kind. I know the approach is debatable but the universal lesson is a lot of us are living in our own sort of hell.

Just some light entertainment.

I spent 15 years in and out of meth addiction, I hustled for a bit and quit the moment I could get a real job in NYC. I met a lot of people like this along the way. Addicts crave something to fill the gaping hole they have inside themselves from rejection, indifference, and not getting enough love or feeling secure as children. You see this again and again in these interviews.

My childhood wasn’t the best, but there were good aspects and I lucked out as a teen with people that guided me along the way. I had as much fun as anyone ever could ever have getting high without dying- and walked right up to the edge of the abyss before I stopped. That was 12 years ago, and I have a life beyond my wildest dreams sober now.

Yet I shudder when people say that being an addict is a “choice”, OR those that have been sober for awhile get smug about it.. Being smug is dangerous.

Sobriety is a carefully calculated prearrangement of conditions, accountability, suggestions and awareness of consequences which “prop” up the choice to stay sober. It’s easier to do inside a fellowship of other addicts striving to as well than alone. If you are an extremely private person, free spirit or an alpha personality, you will have an extremely hard, almost impossible time doing so- because you will eventually need to relinquish control to others, deflate the ego, and lean on them for support, and surrender your will.

You could say it’s their surroundings, poverty, or being outcast, but I would argue it was instead these people died because they absolutely refused to do any of that. RIP

R50 Who asked you, bitch? Shut up. Who fuckin asked for your story?

Is r51 drunk?

R51, bless your heart.

I piped up because I am NO different than any of those portrayed in these videos and have swam in the darkest depths of despair just like them. I once read an interview with a priest that helped addicts and he put it like this-

“The soul needs the struggle than it may grow stronger”.

Agreed R51!!! Shut up ElderFuck

I saw the guy who does this channel on joe rogan and he seems really skeevy and not at all that empathetic to me

ElderSage R50, you hit the nail on the head. Overcoming your pride and seeking help from others is the hardest part.

How did those people die?

If he goes on the Joe Rogan show then he's probably an asshole

r40, geez, Soft White Underbelly has killed more people than Glee and Celebrity Rehab combined

That r50 r51 exchange cracked me up

If you go to YouTube search, there are many critical videos about Mark Laita. The comments are filled with his fanboys defending him to the hilt; he has almost a disturbing cult like following. It’s really easy to be lulled into these kinds of videos. They are highly branded in their style and even Mark is branded himself usually wearing a size too small white t-shirt. They aren’t one off documentaries; it’s a never ending income producing misery train under the guise of ‘awareness’. What bothers me most is he has no mental health credentials, but he asks people who are highly ignored and vulnerable to unpack all their emotions and traumas then leaves them high and dry and moves in to the next ‘trick’. It’s a modern voyeuristic form of a side show or how Victorians used to visit mental asylums as entertainment.

R61 has it.

He is giving a voice to the voiceless!