It's merely a symptom of a Gay Porn industry absorbed in masculine models posing (male sex objects akin to those female Playmates of the Month Hefner pioneered once upon a time), rather than the characters and stories Gage pioneered back in the Golden Age of the '70s.
Joe Gage, who I knew back in the '80s in New York City as Tim Kincaid, delivers one of many 'pin-up porn' shows with this Colorado-lensed non-story of rugged men humping each other ad infinitum.