While on the set of Grunts, the latest masterpiece from Raging Stallion Studios, we were able to meet with gay porn icon Michael Brandon and discuss his long and varied career, as well as his personal life. He was extremely candid about everything from his recovery from crystal meth addiction to his career in gay porn and escorting as well as finding true love and yes of course, all about that third leg he keeps in his pants that he calls Monster.

Michael was born in Los Angeles, and was a sexually precocious child. In fact, he says that he has been having sexual encounters with other males since he was 8 years old. The first time that he had anal sex, was age 12, when he bottomed (!) for a cousin, and topped for the first time at age 17, with the woman who would later go on to become his wife.

Seven years after that, at age 24, Michael came out of the closet. Back then he was actually shy and reserved, and didn’t go to parties and socialize because he was so used to being in the “straight” world, but he does admit that he was a big fan of the local adult bookstore. “I was the first one in the booths back when it was 25 cents a slot, and I was the first one with my pants down at that point and pulling the curtain open and whacking it and letting the boys come in and do their thing,” he told us. These initial encounters with other guys were also the first time that he realized that his penis was so large, because before that, he didn’t really have a frame of reference. Michael dubbed his manhood Monster.

One day back in 1989, he was reading a local gay publication when he saw and advertisement calling for XXX models, and thus a career was born. The first film he made was called Ranger Nick for In Hand Video. Michael’s, or should I say Monster’s, reputation preceded him, and everybody in the crew knew that he was “the one with the big dick” before he even stepped foot on the set. That actually intimidated Michael, but he found that first experience to be exhilarating…at first. Then things went awry.

“They locked all the doors and wouldn’t allow any of us to leave,” he explained. “They brought us all in at the same time and they were going to have us all leave at the same time, so there were like, you know, 15 of us models there. We were all sleeping on the floors and all kinds of shit, in this private house. After my scene I slept overnight and I started to get a little bit too antsy so I jumped the fence and went running down the neighborhood and found the first Denny’s and the telephone. I called my agent at the time and said ‘I have no idea where the fuck I am. Get me out of here. Oh, and make sure I get paid.’ I had done my scene and there were three or four days left!” he chuckles.

Despite that dodgy initial experience, Michael went on to make around 10 movies before he found himself caught up in all of the excesses so readily available to those in the adult industry, and had developed a raging crystal methamphetamine habit. “I used to mainline it, which means that I used to use needles, and I’d put it right into my system and I’d immediately get effect. Well, I thought I was Superman one time. I went up on top of a three-story building and I jumped to another building. I saw something pretty on another rooftop and I wanted to go get it, so I just took one step backward and I just flew over. You just don’t think clearly,” he reflects. That drug habit first landed him on the streets, and then put him behind bars for almost 10 years.

Michael is quite open about his past when it comes to his addiction, and uses his personal experience to help others that are battling those same demons. In fact, he and a slew of other hot gay porn stars took part in a series of ads for Tweaker.org, to convince gay men that having hot sex without crystal meth is indeed possible. He practices what he preaches, too. This year marks 9 years that Michael Brandon has been completely drug and alcohol free. When asked why he thinks that crystal use is so prevalent amongst gays, he offers this: “Number one, it’s an escape for some of the stuff that homosexuals have to deal with. You know, family problems, society problems, whatever. Number two is the sexual aspect to it. You know, sex on speed seems to be so much fun and so much more intense. But 9 years off of it I am having some pretty fucking hot sex.”

Clean and sober, and free from incarceration, Michael made a return to the business in 1999 in Late Night Porn from Stable Entertainment. Because he had been gone from the industry for so long, the casting director for that film actually took credit for “discovering” Michael, which still gives him a good laugh.  “The following year as a matter of fact, I got nominated for Best Newcomer because nobody had really seen the 9 or 10 movies that I had done previously.” Lots of high-profile porn work followed that, most notably being showcased in two Phil St. John movies (Getting It At The Rave and Double Delights) that each featured Michael, along with another big-dicked top, double-penetrating an adventurous bottom. (The DP is a St. John specialty.) However, it wasn’t until he started working as a porn model for Raging Stallion Studios that Michael discovered a company that he wanted to work for behind the camera.

“Chris Ward, the president of Raging Stallion, after I had worked with him a couple of times as a model, came to me and said, ‘You know, I have been looking for a top like you,’” Michael told us. And thus the Monster Bang line of videos was born. Yes, Michael named his production company after his penis, which had made him such a big star. “Monster Bang was designed after Monster and my style of fucking, which is aggressive to the point of brutality. Bottoms know they have been fucked when I get done with them: Two or three big-dicked tops fucking the shit out of bottoms, and just passing them around and all of us kind of having our way with them.”
But don’t look for any new videos starring Michael Brandon anytime soon. He has been in a committed, monogamous relationship for the past 3 years, and has retired both from performing in porn and from escorting as well. “I am absolutely in love,” he declared.

In addition to helming Monster Bang, Michael also works in pre-production for all of the other Raging Stallion movies, and is still quite visible on the charity fundraiser circuit, particularly in the bay area. After almost 20 years, Michael Brandon is still a survivor that you can’t keep down.

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