LOS ANGELES—Frequent Alt Erotic screen personality and tattoo artist Josh Gray was featured in a recent episode of the Truly channel’s Love Don’t Judge, an online dating series focusing on people with unconventional lifestyles.
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The episode—“How Will My Blind Date React to My Vitiligo?”—introduces Bailey Ramirez, a model, barber and single mother to three young children, with a skin condition called vitiligo, which causes white patches of skin all over the body due to the loss of skin pigment cells.
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During the date between Ramirez and Gray, they find common ground through their appearance; the heavily-tattooed Gray notes that “with most people, they’re like ‘I need to get tattoos in order to look different and stand out … this happened to you naturally. It’s a gift—that’s how I see it.”
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He informs Ramirez that he works in the adult industry, so is well aware of societal judgment: “It’s very hard for me to explain to a female that I’m a normal dude … they’re going to make assumptions about you without knowing who you really are.”
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The date goes well, with Ramirez remarking that “I felt like I was talking to somebody who got it, like, ‘You GET it … the highlight of the day for me was just being able to connect with somebody on that level.”
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Added Gray, “I think the industry gets some backlash on the idea that we don’t care about love or connection; it’s really hard to tell people you work in the adult film industry. If I can have a connection with someone, it shouldn’t matter what kind of lifestyle one leads. Love is love.”
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Gray, who stars in
Ink Motel (as Felix) and
Ink Motel 2 (as Duke Daybreak), can be seen in the upcoming
Ho Hunters as Dangle Daybreak, Duke’s tattoo-free twin brother. To find him on social media, visit his Twitter
@TattooJosh666 and Instagram
@joshua-gray87.
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To watch “How Will My Blind Date React to My Vitiligo?” go to Truly’s
YouTube channel.
Coleen Singer is a writer, photographer, film editor and all-around geeky gal at Sssh.com, where she often waxes eloquent about sex, porn, sex toys, censorship, the literary and pandering evils of Fifty Shades of Grey and other topics not likely to be found on the Pulitzer Prize shortlist. She is also the editor and curator of EroticScribes.com. When she is not doing all of the above, Singer is an amateur stock-car racer and enjoys modifying vintage 1970s cars for the racetrack. Oh, she also likes porn.