Bobby Blake (born Edgar Gaines; August 11, 1957) is a Baptist elder who acted in gay pornography until his retirement in 2000.
[3][better source needed] The film Niggas' Revenge, and Flex-Deon Blake's role in it, have become the subject of academic discussion.
In his book, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking, Tim Dean, a professor at the University at Buffalo, treats Niggas' Revenge in detail because of the way in which it fetishizes the simultaneous transgression of a number of taboos, all in order, Dean argues, to “conjure the transgressive charge of unprotected anal sex among gay men".
[5][better source needed] He continues: "In all the years I was working in the adult entertainment business, I never turned my back on God or the Bible teachings I had grown up with.
[1]It was Bobby Blake who, by referring Flex-Deon to the producer Edward James, introduced his partner to the adult industry.