Gay porn star Calvin Banks said his father started abusing him when he was eight years old. In an interview with gay porn channel Himeros.tv, while he was on a retreat in Vermont. In the video, Banks explained that he visited his father at weekends because his parents were divorced.

He said that he only understood that what his father did to him was sexual abuse when he confided in his mum.

Banks, who had therapy to cope with the abuse, said,

“My dad was my first blowjob. I can now comfortably say my dad was my first blowjob.

I gotta laugh about it. I have friends whose dads left when they were two years old. I joke with them, I say

‘Well, your dad didn’t love you enough, and my dad loved me too much.’”

Banks said his dad abused him when his sisters were at gymnastics classes. He said he later found out that his father had also abused his sisters too.

“Because of the abuse I suffered I became a very sexual child very early on and I often sought out sexual experiences for that reason.

What he did was absolutely not okay.“

On Twitter on Banks wrote:

“I’ve always been an open book about who I am and what I’ve been through but I’ve never made a point to speak about it.

I’ve learned from everything that’s happened in my life – my abuse, among others things, has only made me stronger.”

It’s not clear whether Banks’ father faced any legal repercussions for the sexual abuse.

Several studies show that a startlingly large proportion of LGBTQ people are survivors of rape or sexual assault.

In 2010, research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that more than a quarter (26%) of gay men and 37% of bi men have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, compared to nearly three in 10 (29%) heterosexual men.

(Photo, Youtube screen grab; via Pink News)