I find this interesting. Before the 1980s, at least in gay porn but I think in straight porn too, the fairly consistent convention was to portray penetration as simple and pleasurable, even when it came to fisting. In the 1980s, a parallel convention became equally prominent, where the bottom was portrayed as tight and the top as too much to take. I really think the “I’m really straight” fantasy became more prolific then too, perhaps just because live sound was cheaper and easier to produce, so it mattered more what was being said before and during the fuck. When the bottom acts like he can’t take it, subliminally that’s reinforcing the fantasy that this is his first time with a guy. Unsurprising that such a portrayal would be a 1980s legacy.

IMO it looks hot. If the bottom was experiencing pain I doubt they would have denied him lube. He probably loved it.