Conner Habib: Working on a book. It’s all about obscure cultural/historical stuff related to sex. Lots of amazing and crazy stuff that the general public is unaware of. Also giving more public lectures (I just spoke at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at their big dome), still trying to find the right theater to put on the play I wrote, making some more porn movies of course – including with a few studios I’ve never worked with, continuing with my sex/relationship advice web show on Logo’s website – NewNowNext.com, and doing some TV stuff. Very excited!

Conner Habib: One of the best fan letters ever came from someone who I’ve been a long time fan of. It was a guy who played in an indie rock band called Satisfact, who I loved when I was just out of high school. I had a big crush on one of the members, but he never paid any notice to me. Then, last year, totally out of the blue, he emailed me. He had no idea that I was a fan of his band. Really, it was an awesome moment.

Conner Habib: Oh Marc, you know we’re never supposed to answer questions like this! I love all the guys that want to get it in me. 🙂 I will say my latest was with Dario Beck for Titan, and I really loved working with him. Not sure when that’s coming out, but wow, what a beautiful and awesome guy. I fucked him outside for a few hours and then after the scene we hung out in our room and listened to music together.

Conner Habib: I don’t necessarily have a favorite part on me – I don’t really think of myself in parts like that. Happy to hear anyone else’s ideas, though! As for other guys – I love when a guy has ears that stick out. Don’t ask me why. It’s not like I want to stick my dick in anyone’s ears, I just love the way they look.

Conner Habib: I don’t know! I guess maybe that I don’t live what people think of as a porn lifestyle. My life is busy, but also sort of quiet – I spend most of my time reading, writing, and jerking off. Oh, and thinking about eating desserts. But I don’t really drink often, I don’t go out too much. I love seeing my porn coworkers when I do go out, but I get sleepy kind of early.

Conner Habib: Not really, it’s kind of hard to embarrass a porn star. Maybe really really early on when I did a puppy play scene with Ricky Sinz and RJ Danvers and I couldn’t get the puppy tail butt plug up my ass whereas RJ could take one twice the size up his butt no problem. But you see? The fact that I can even just reference taking a buttplug shaped like a puppy tail up my ass kind of shows that embarrassment is sort of different for porno people.

Conner Habib: It makes things so much easier. It filters out people who can’t handle my personality.

Conner Habib: Working construction for my dad, who was a contractor. That was pretty rough, although the construction guys I worked with made for good masturbation material growing up.

Conner Habib: I just did an interview for an Arab language magazine – I think it’s one of the first (if not the first) Arab language magazine interview ever with a gay porn star. That’s huge for me because I’m half Syrian and I get tons of letters from the Middle East from guys who are scared to reveal their sexuality. Of course, not every guy in the Middle East is afraid of being out, nor are all regions/countries the same. But I think having people say gay sex is okay is definitely needed in that part of the world. So that feels really awesome.

Conner Habib: I’ve always been working on other projects, so there’s not much need for me to leave porn to do it. Before you get into porn, lots of people like to tell you that it’ll close doors for you. But if you’re not ashamed of it, if you let it be a healthy part of your life, then it actually opens a lot of doors and helps you branch out into all the other things you’re interested in, too.

Conner Habib: Sort of yes, sort of no. Before I was in porn, I idolized all the gay porn stars. I still do, to some extent – but the feeling is a bit different. From the outside, porn can be this amazing sex-positive, gay-affirming thing. From the inside, it can often just feel like business. So you lose a little bit of what makes it so great once you get into it. I try to balance that out by giving it my all when I’m shooting and just having fun so the viewer can feel that enthusiasm and excitement too. When I think about the viewer getting turned on, it enlivens the whole thing for me again.

Conner Habib: Like I said, very positive. That doesn’t mean there haven’t been times when it’s been difficult. But any job is difficult, any life path has its issues. So I try to see all the good that’s come out of the choices I’ve made, and honestly, there’s a lot there that I’m very happy with and that I feel really good about.

Conner Habib: Even if we haven’t met yet, if you’re a fan, I’m so happy to have you in my life. It’s huge, and you make it easier and more gratifying for me to do everything I’m doing. Thank you so much for paying attention, for jerking off, for listening, for being amazing. If you have anything you’d like to say to me, please reach out to me on twitter @connerhabib