Mason Wyler: Well, a former housemate of mine tweeted about it, trying to smear me in a negative light and suggest I was out there spreading disease. The Advocate: What made you decide to come forward and tell people you’d tested positive?
Wyler talks to The Advocate about his decision to disclose his status, what this means for his porn career and how he feels about the mixed response to his announcement. In a post on his official website, Wyler says he tested positive in May and has “only myself to blame.” And as it has before, response has been all over the map - from supportive to indifferent to the suggestion it’s all just a publicity stunt. Now Wyler is making headlines again - this time for coming out as HIV-positive. The 26-year-old self-described “sex fiend” is known for being more graphic than your average porn star - in January he detailed a sexual relationship with an Internet porn star who was a “roid-raged, drug-addicted, racist asshole.” His ads on sites like Adam4Adam and Manhunt in 2009 declared he was trying to see how much sex a slut could have online and that “anything goes.” And in 2008 he made headlines when he posted on his blog that he’d been raped - when he followed it up with a series of posts about enjoying rough sex and ultimately decided against pressing charges, several bloggers suggested he’d made the entire thing up.
As gay porn stars go, few know how to raise eyebrows quite like Mason Wyler.