Billy Porter says he hired a ‘professional’ to teach him how to bottom

Billy Porter has shared that he paid a “professional” to teach him how to be a bottom in the bedroom.

The actor and singer spilled details about his sex life in the ‘Sex Before The Internet’ episode of the history docuseries Finding Fire Island.

“I called a couple of escorts from HX,” Porter said, referring to the famous New York gay magazine that ran in the nineties and noughties. “I’m telling some real personal s*** right now.”

He continued: “You know, I was what you considered a top.”

Porter went on to explain that during the early years of the AIDS crisis, many people thought that the virus was only transmitted to bottoms. As a result, a lot of men began to act as a top as a safety strategy.

‘Don’t ask me questions you don’t want the answers to, honey!’

“Oh, ‘I’m a top’ was a common, fear-based response. But by 30, I was ready to be versatile,” Porter continued.

“And I didn’t really know where to go, and I wanted a professional. So, I did go to HX. And you had to vet over the phone. They had pictures, but you had to call, you had to talk. It wasn’t text message. You had to hear the voice.

“That was a part of the allure of it, your voice. But I, you know, had to hire a professional to teach me how to bottom,” he laughed. “Don’t ask me questions you don’t want the answers to, honey!”

Billy Porter’s health issues

In March, Porter got candid when he revealed the horrific details of his sepsis diagnosis last year, explaining that he was “dead for three days” after being put on a life support machine.

Speaking to TS Madison on her iHeartMedia Outlaws podcast, Porter opened up about how close he came to death, and suggested that it’s a “miracle” that he is still here today.

He explained to Madison that during a “routine check” with his doctor, they discovered that he had a kidney stone that “was trapped in [his] urethra”.

Sharing the gory details, Porter said: “When they got in there, there was so much puss, and bile, and infection behind the stone. It bubbled up and I went uroseptic in minutes.”

According to the Sepsis Alliance, the term urosepsis “describes sepsis caused by a UTI [urinary tract infection]”. When a UTI goes untreated, it can spread to the kidneys and cause sepsis.

‘I was dead for three days’

Porter explained that his case of sepsis was so severe that he had to be placed on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine [ECMO machine], which is a form of life support. An ECMO helps blood pump around the heart and lungs, allowing a patient’s heart and lungs to rest and recover. Meanwhile, Porter was in a coma.

“I was dead for three days,” the Tony Award-winning actor confessed. “I am a miracle. I’m a walking miracle.”

After he awoke, he was informed that his leg “had gone into compartment syndrome, which is when the muscles close in on themselves and cut off the oxygen”.

He had to be “cut open” on either side of his leg, from his knee to his hip, while he was still in a coma, in order to “save [his] leg”.

Porter explained that after he came to, he realised that the near-death experience had changed the way he views life.

“I am so grateful to be here. It is such a gift,” he said, adding that the experience taught him three things.

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