December 25, 20205 yr I was in Czech about a year ago. I used to have huge fantasies about Czech soldiers, those aren't even remotely possible now, but I shared a train compartment at the end of December, 2019 for a couple of hours with a hot soldier in his uniform, cap and all, no sex, but it was still intoxicating. He slid over next to me on the train seat with a journal type book to show me his sketches and photos... so our heads were just an inch or so apart. So my fantasy sort of came true.
December 25, 20205 yr Author Active Members You would have been in heaven in Drakes between years 2000 and 2007 when it was possible to meet soldiers willing to get some $ through meeting foreigners in Drakes after having done a porn shoot for William Higgins
December 25, 20205 yr Author Active Members 1 minute ago, pauleiro said: Paulox, you would have been in heaven in Drakes bar between years 2000 and 2007 when it was possible to meet soldiers willing to get some $ through meeting foreigners in Drakes after having done a porn shoot for William Higgins William Higgins site at that time was called Euromilitary
December 26, 20205 yr Author Active Members some pics of the soldiers from Euromilitary site. Anonymous soldiers And famous models Jirka Kalvoda. I met him in 2003 in Drakes. I had seen his gorgeous body on euromilitary, was hoping to meet him and he was in the Drakes. So cute ! Carlo Festa and his brother who was in the military. They did a very hot duo together. Never managed to meet Carlo :-(( Martin Pravda, also met in Drakes Dreamboat, whom I never met in Drakes but managed to meet him later. Gorgeous. And the Presidential Guards. I never met them in Drakes, but their appearance in official outfit and in the naked was a big scandal in Czech Republic.
December 26, 20205 yr Author Active Members Happy New Year from Prague ! These WH current models are lovely
December 26, 20205 yr Active Members Carlo: A detailed biography: http://beingbutmen.blogspot.com/2014/08/this-is-carlo-festa.html Carlo Festa filmography A Wank in the Woods (Paladin Video, 2001; masturbation only (as Carlo Festa) Boys of Prague: Wrestling Plus #1 (William Higgins Productions, 2001) (as Carlo Festa) Carlo and Friends (William Higgins/Paladin, 2001) (as Carlo Festa) Meltdown (Studio 2000, 2001) (as Carlo Kovarik) Wank Party #3: Merry Xmas (William Higgins Productions, 20010; masturbation only (as Carlo Festa) Czech Up #1 (William Higgins Productions, 2002) (as Carlo Festa) Helping Hands #1 (William Higgins/Paladin, 2002); masturbation only (as Carlo Festa) Boy Struck (Channel 1 Releasing, 2005) (as "Kyle") Boy Ride (Channel 1 Releasing, 2006) (as "Kyle") Like most of the old crowd he's approaching 40.
December 27, 20205 yr Author Active Members I always had a big regret not to have managed to meet Carlo. In the Tassojunior's post above, it is mentionned that Carlo was interested by prostitution but he never went to Pinocchio, the famous rent boy bar in Prague around the year 2000. He did not show up in Escape and I never met him in Drakes. At that time, boy meeting through internet was almost nothing. The first time I saw him on Euromilitary, he did a duo with Pavel Novotny. Carlo was walking in woods and saw Pavel wanking on top of a rock. He starts wanking hus lovely juicy cock and then is fucked by Pavel. I always remembered Carlo's face while being fucked by Pavel. He clearly was not used to being fucked and seemed obviously gay-for-pay (at least bottom-for-pay).
December 27, 20205 yr Active Members My last visit was 2015 just to attend the Bel Ami party at Mecca Club, not sure if they are still doing this as of late (definitely not in 2020) but maybe anytime in the future perhaps?
December 27, 20205 yr Active Members Not sure about Carlo at 40 but here's a Christmas pic of beloved "Velvety" today at 32. Living in Saigon with a Viet photographer and working at a bar.
December 28, 20205 yr Active Members 1 hour ago, Streptomy said: Velvety is new to me. What was his porn name, if any? He never did porn. He was a pro hockey player and model and the #1 escort for several of us for years in the 90's. He's the one this thread was started about.
December 29, 20205 yr On 12/27/2020 at 4:55 PM, Firestarter said: My last visit was 2015 just to attend the Bel Ami party at Mecca Club, not sure if they are still doing this as of late (definitely not in 2020) but maybe anytime in the future perhaps? I love when they do events like this. I went to a Bel Ami picnic for Prague Pride a few years ago. It was great to meet some of my favourites. Hope they do more.
December 29, 20205 yr Active Members On 12/27/2020 at 7:16 PM, tassojunior said: He never did porn. He was a pro hockey player and model and the #1 escort for several of us for years in the 90's. He's the one this thread was started about. sorry, it was about 10 years ago when Velvety became the #1 guy in Prague for many of us and this thread was started about him in 2013. Relating to the old Higgins porn stars, I've just noticed that the William Higgins site has taken down all the pre-2010 films and videos that were Higgins' best. Those works are Higgins art at it's peak period and it's awful the new owners of the site don't seem to appreciate them. Edited December 29, 20205 yr by tassojunior
December 30, 20205 yr Active Members Wow the period across the 2 centuries has been unique in Prague for the atmosphere, unfortunately I was too young to live it! How’s now @tassojunior? Do the guys keep this genuine attitude to show off and have fun or the scene has moved to the websites?
December 30, 20205 yr Author Active Members 12 hours ago, tassojunior said: Relating to the old Higgins porn stars, I've just noticed that the William Higgins site has taken down all the pre-2010 films and videos that were Higgins' best. Those works are Higgins art at it's peak period and it's awful the new owners of the site don't seem to appreciate them. I still have access to them. It is not in main site but in the archives. The link to archives is at bottom. It is not visible at first : you need to have opened one photoshoot
December 30, 20205 yr Author Active Members 12 hours ago, JackR said: On 12/27/2020 at 5:55 PM, Firestarter said: I love when they do events like this. I went to a Bel Ami picnic for Prague Pride a few years ago. It was great to meet some of my favourites. Hope they do more. I think they only did this event once, no ? Wasn't it the year where it was raining cats and dogs ?
December 30, 20205 yr Active Members The link to the old Higgins content still works for me, it's http://old.williamhiggins.com -- but maybe Tasso is talking about a different content?
December 30, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, pauleiro said: I think they only did this event once, no ? Wasn't it the year where it was raining cats and dogs ? Yes it rained so heavily haha. We had to shelter under the bridge.
December 31, 20205 yr Author Active Members On 12/30/2020 at 11:28 AM, Streptomy said: The link to the old Higgins content still works for me, it's http://old.williamhiggins.com -- but maybe Tasso is talking about a different content? Yes. This is the content of the old site. There is nothing else. Maybe it is not available if you have only one month access to main site
December 31, 20205 yr On 27/12/2020 at 17:05, tassojunior said: Não tenho certeza sobre Carlo aos 40, mas aqui está uma foto de Natal do amado "Velvety" hoje aos 32. Morando em Saigon com um fotógrafo Viet e trabalhando em um bar. Wow, What a breastplate
January 1, 20215 yr Active Members On 12/31/2020 at 9:14 AM, pauleiro said: Yes. This is the content of the old site. There is nothing else. Maybe it is not available if you have only one month access to main site On 12/30/2020 at 6:28 AM, Streptomy said: The link to the old Higgins content still works for me, it's http://old.williamhiggins.com -- but maybe Tasso is talking about a different content? I know the Archives is there (although it's in terrible shape and the formats used are terrible to watch). But many of the most significant videos/movies/stars of the peak of Higgins work just before 2010 are missing now that were there a couple years ago. No Bjorn Gedda movies (including "Bjorn's Buddies" and several of his films, Milan Johansen and "In the Heat of Summer", and all the Tom Smith movies together with a lot of other stuff and stars from 2007-2010. I know those 3 had other careers and maybe they had to be "disappeared" from porn. But instead I think the new owners are just neglecting the famous WH films from the pre-2010 period. I hope I'm wrong.
January 2, 20215 yr Active Members Hi Tasso, are you referring to the WH Shop (https://www.williamhiggins.com/content/whshop) by any chance? I can't speak to that, but the main site seems very stable, including the old site, which although rudimentary is full of good stuff -- though, as you say, the videos are low res. All 38 scenes involving Björn Gedda that are documented in GEVI are still there (list below), though most are movie scenes and so don't come up in a name search (the search seems to be limited to episode titles). And none of his scenes are indexed on the current site, which doesn't "talk" to the old one. (Fortunately, one membership works for both, so I just do two searches.) Also, consider the situation elsewhere. In the 7 years since I've been seriously collecting gay porn, Belami has had at least two purges (deleting over 1000 episodes including some just a few years old); Staxus has removed many pages selectively; several smaller sites with Czech content have disappeared (Sweet&Raw, Bare Adventures, etc); and LOTS of new sites have appeared with no indexing and no performer names -- a plague upon the landscape. Many of these started with little content and have not added any since. (I actually like one of these, http://gaylawoffice.com, but I only subscribed for a month because they have no new material.) So overall I think Higgins is rather stable. If you know for sure some pages have been removed, do you remember how they were accessed before? Appendix: Higgins pages containing Björn Gedda (all that were up in early 2015): http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91063 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91299 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91409 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91495 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91554 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91603 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91617 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91619 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91626 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91688 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91742 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91749 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91838 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91880 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91923 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/91971 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92037 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92107 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92130 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92242 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92265 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92559 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92581 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92622 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92642 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92671 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92872 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/92941 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93033 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93056 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93098 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93189 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93202 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93716 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93725 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93912 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93928 http://old.williamhiggins.com/set/detail/93936 Björn Gedda and Chad Driver (not a Higgins photo) Edited January 2, 20215 yr by Streptomy added info
January 2, 20215 yr Active Members 6 hours ago, Streptomy said: Hi Tasso, are you referring to the WH Shop (https://www.williamhiggins.com/content/whshop) by any chance? I can't speak to that, but the main site seems very stable, including the old site, which although rudimentary is full of good stuff -- though, as you say, the videos are low res. All 38 scenes involving Björn Gedda that are documented in GEVI are still there (list below), though most are movie scenes and so don't come up in a name search (the search seems to be limited to episode titles). And none of his scenes are indexed on the current site, which doesn't "talk" to the old one. (Fortunately, one membership works for both, so I just do two searches.) Also, consider the situation elsewhere. In the 7 years since I've been seriously collecting gay porn, Belami has had at least two purges (deleting over 1000 episodes including some just a few years old); Staxus has removed many pages selectively; several smaller sites with Czech content have disappeared (Sweet&Raw, Bare Adventures, etc); and LOTS of new sites have appeared with no indexing and no performer names -- a plague upon the landscape. Many of these started with little content and have not added any since. (I actually like one of these, http://gaylawoffice.com, but I only subscribed for a month because they have no new material.) So overall I think Higgins is rather stable. If you know for sure some pages have been removed, do you remember how they were accessed before? The last time I subscribed and updated WH was 2 or 3 years ago and then the 2007-2010 films and videos were still accessible on the main site. Now pre-2010 is gone from it except a few scenes on Archives. That's why I noticed the above "Re-mastered" scenes of Carlo. This should be a profitable endeavor for William Higgins Inc., especially during a pandemic. Certainly they are as good as most "new" stuff they do and are free to them. Those pre-2010 videos and stars of both Higgins and Bel Ami are still gay icons and it was a breakthrough period for Czech gay porn and gay life in Prague. (I hate to hear Bel Ami has taken off their "old" stuff too). Rummaging through archives clips is way too hard and when I click on WH store what I get is : Dear WHVideoShop.com users, as we offer our videos and sets for downloading on our websites WilliamHiggins.com and Str8hell.com via Shopping Basket for your online purchases, we have decided to discontinue our WHVideoShop.com website. Should you have any questions in regards to WHVideoShop.com, please contact us at whvideoshop@gmail.com.
January 2, 20215 yr Active Members Right, I see what you mean and I agree it's a pity, or a crime. Thanks for the clarification.
January 6, 20215 yr I've been reliving some past 'experiences' during lockdown and putting and few photos together of guys I have had the pleasure of meeting over the years. I met this guy who I think is called Roman a long time ago at Pinocchio (yes a VERY long time ago). I know he did some porn stuff as well as biz. If someone can help me with a name or any info it would be appreciated.
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