Van Darkholme is a Vietnamese American

Vietnamese American

A Vietnamese American is an American of Vietnamese descent. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American group....

 gay

Gay

Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

 pornographic actor

Pornographic actor

A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...

, director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, an artist and photographer.

Darkholme is among the few Asian American men working in Western gay porn as a director and actor, and is of Vietnamese

Vietnamese people

The Vietnamese people are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam and southern China. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population as of the 1999 census, and are officially known as Kinh to distinguish them from other ethnic groups in Vietnam...

 descent. His photos usually show him totally naked, with his genitalia clearly visible and his penis often fully erect. Much of his work as a director and actor contains bondage

Bondage (BDSM)

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 and particularly shibari, the Japanese art of rope bondage, a specialty within BDSM

BDSM

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 cultures. Van Darkholme (sometimes misspelled as "Darkholm") is a screen name; his birth name has been kept private.

Throughout the 1990s, Darkholme was a fashion and photographic model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

. Darkholme's book of bondage photography, Male Bondage, was published by Bruno Gmünder in June 2006. In 2008, The San Francisco-based BDSM studio Kink.com hired Darkholme, where he currently directs gay pornography with an emphasis on bondage and wrestling. Darkholme self-identifies as a gay man.

Partial videography

• Bondo Gods, Vol. 7, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2008)
• Bondo Gods, Vol. 6, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2008)
• Anatomy of Bondage, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2007)
• Bondo Gods, Vol. 5, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2006)
• Bondo Gods, Vol. 4, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2005)
• Bondo Gods, Vol. 3, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2005)
• Once Upon a Time Reloaded, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2005)
• Rear Window, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2005)
• Van-Nilla Reloaded, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2005)
• Bondo Gods, Vol. 2, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2004)
• Bondo Gods, Vol. 1, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2004)
• Raw Rope, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2004)
• Black Rope, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2002)
• White Rope, (Muscle Bound Productions, 2001)
• Lords of the Locker Room, (Can Am Productions, 1999)

External links

• Van Darkholme Official Website (Adult content)