If you look it up on the PornHub website (which I did, casually, at my desk, in an open office) you'll see at least 247 results. Some films include shots of people hooking up in yellow hazmat suits. In one, a person wearing both a backwards ball-cap and a face mask attempts to go down on his partner through the medical-grade cloth of the protective gear.
Their specific work imagines a Centers For Disease Control and Prevention healthcare employee, who's walking around in an I Am Legend-style abandoned medical facility. He's wandering in the dark, breathing loudly through the mask of his hazmat suit, when suddenly a woman cloaked in a hospital gown appears out of nowhere. She gives him a blow job, then wordlessly begins to bang him through a hole in his suit.
"I think people are drawn to this because it's one of those fears that you can't come to terms with," Spicy, the filmmaker, tells me, of this genre of porn. Spicy, like many, has been experiencing some anxiety about coronavirus - which brings on symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath, per the actual CDC.
"With coronavirus, it's out of my control, and I think that's where art really shines," Spicy says. "The future is out of our hands, but art is a way to control it. By making a story - making a porn - about it, in some way I feel I'm in control of my own fears. I can dictate the story, even if it's just imaginary."
Any porn is controversial. And the contention is amplified when you make movies about a virus that's killing people. Spicy says he's taken heat for what some believe is making light of a serious pandemic. But Spicy says that he and his partner didn't mean to offend anyone. "I'm happy for the people who did appreciate the content, but my finger's been on the delete button for a while because I'm worried it will bring me too much negative attention," he says.
Additionally, some coronavirus porn videos that feature Asian actors have been attracting comments that are downright racist.
In the end, Wise says that the COVID-19 porn cropping up isn't surprising - but it also may not be the best way to deal with coronavirus anxieties.
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