Do ladies feel the same way about Gay Porn as men feel about Lesbian porn? I’m speaking in generalities, of course. Personally, the girl-girl stuf wouldnt really float my boat, but there is of course a huge market for it. I’m sure that the majority of women dont like porn, period, but still, the question remains. Your opinions, please.
Says who?
:dubious:
You need to learn all about slash fic.
I’m just not visually-oriented. I don’t have any problems with homosexuality, but gay porn of either gender is going to arouse me even less than hetero-porn… which I often find pretty funny 
Work with me on this.
I have a lesbian friend who casually told me about a year ago that she really dug gay male porn; in fact, she told me that it was the hottest porn around. I stammered “but they have, um, outties…don’t you dig innies?.” “Doesn’t matter”, she said, “gay male porn is the hottest, hands down.” So I say, “what about straight porn? At least it’s got pussy”. “Nah”, she said, “that’s made for straight guys”. True enough, I guess…so? It just doesn’t do it for her.
Gets even stranger. I say, “howzabout those hot all-girl pornos? No dick whatsoever.” “No good”, she said, “that’s made for straight guys, too.”. True enough, again…so? I don’t get it. Here’s the oddest thing: I then ask, “how about those made-by-lesbians-for-lesbians pornos? They aren’t made for straight guys.” “Yeah, but they suck”, she winced, “there’s always a lame romance attached to the story, the build up is too long, the sex is too little, too lame, and the girls aren’t much to look at. Gay male porn is the hottest.”
Not only that, she insisted that it was one of the dirty little secrets of lesbians (she is heavily into lesbian culture, and is in a position to know). She mentioned articles in the lesbian press on the phenomenon (which, I’m sure we all agree, needs a nifty name. Anyone?). She insisted she was not pulling my leg (or anything else, not that I asked).
I think it’s yummy, which is a bit odd when you consider the fact that I think penises (penii?) are gross. Here’s a link for you Malienation. Good Vibes has an online magazine that did an article (http://www.goodvibes.com/Content.aspx?id=1606&leftMenu=35&lr=y) (probably NSFW) ages ago about lesbians liking gay man porn. The best quote, I thought, was
I think that sums it up. Gay man porn has lots of fucking where you can tell the guys are turned on. In hetero or lesbian porn, the chicks have pretty halfhearted moans a lot of the time, or spend twenty minutes sucking cock. For some reason, when girl does that I get bored, but when a guy spends twenty minutes sucking cock, I think it’s hot. Who knows? I probably just have a fucked up view of fucking.
Guinastasia brought up the lovely arena of slash. For those of you that aren’t fangeeks, slash is fan fiction about two people of the same gender having a romantic interlude. Generally, those two people are two men. Statistics show (I have no idea how said studies were done or of their accuracy) that most slashers (the people who read/write slash) are straight females. Why do a bunch of straight chicks want to write about guys getting it on? One hypothesis is that it’s because guys get all of the good parts in pop culture. Star Trek, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc. All of the male characters are the interesting ones, the more deleloped ones. The notable exception is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which has its fair share of femme-slash floating around the internet. It makes sense that if people are going to write fanfiction, they might want to start with the characters that are already developed. The other, slightly more obvious reason, goes back to what was written in the Good Vibes article. Men getting it on is really sexy and sexual. Bitch Magazine has a really good article about slash. I was going to try to work some of the main ideas into my response, but my brain isn’t working well enough to do that tonight. Sorry.
So, yeah, moral of the story: Gay man sex is hot.
Damn. I forgot something.
My girlfriend loves gay male porn. I have some old stuff from the '70s, Gage Brothers stuff, that she was absolutely fascinated by. That I sort of get…an opportunity to see male sexuality at its rawest, with no compromises for a feminine body, attitude, or presence.
Oh, and I have to add why…
When I was an undergrad at Purdue, I worked at a video rental place. We had “adult” movies, which was really my first experience with them. After close, one of my work buddies and I would put back the porn last, and we would read the backs of the boxes in dramatic Mr. MoviePhone voices. Given the titles such as “Sheepless in Seatle,” you can imagine the juvenile chuckling that went on.
This also reminds me of a phone call I recieved around closing time at said video place. A man called and said he’d just finished a movie, and asked if we had any follow up. Now, mind you, I’ve lived a fairly sheltered life. Anyway, naive me says, confused, “You mean, like a sequel?”
Phoneman just laughs… “No… I mean follow up. I just watched a movie, and do you have something to follow it up?”
“I’m afraid I don’t understand? Would you like another movie?”
Then he spells it all out for me. “I just watched an adult movie, and I need some relief. Do you have any numbers I can call?”
“OH NO! I’m sorry, we do NOT offer anything like that!”
I grew up fast at Videoland :))
MissMossie, it’s not that I disagree with you when you quote "Says another friend, “For me, I love the fact that you can tell the boys are turned on, I mean, just take a look at that steel rod! There’s no caressing, no snuggling, no emotional attachment-it’s totally primal. It’s physical. It’s fucking. It’s hot.” I get it; I’m a bisexual male (who takes a dim view of the fact that you think penises are “icky”, btw, but rhapsodizing about the intoxicating smell of a man’s most intimate bits is for another thread). I get my girlfriend: hey, tons o’ penises! But lesbians?. That I do not get.
I’ve seen my fair share of gay porn (being it that all my male friends happen to be gay or bisexual) and I’m divided on the issue. Porn isn’t really my thing, it makes me laugh more than it turns me on. And in straight or gay porn, I don’t like rear entry action much. It’s something that doesn’t appeal to me.
But the guys in gay porn are usually way hotter than the guys in straight porn.
Meh, sex is sex and I think that sex when everyone involved is into it is hot. Gay man porn has that type of sex, so I like it. I know that it doesn’t make sense, but I also know that I’m not alone. Go figure. Humans are weird.
I’m not into overly muscled guys in the first place, so I fit in with yaoi, which is the Japanese version of slash, basically. A lot of people call the men of yaoi ‘chicks with dicks’, so that’s a way to look at it.
Yup. Yaoi, slash, gay porn, it’s all good. Beautiful beautiful men screwing etc. What more could I ask? I think so far the guys I’ve seen in gay porn are hotter than the ones in straight porn. Straight porn doesn’t do a lot for me. Lesbian porn would then be my next favourite.
My straight wife was asking me about porn. She’s not really into it, but kinda wants to be. We went back & forth a while about what she might like and nothing much did it for her. Then I told her about slash and how it was actually more popular than you might think. She was all, “yeah I dunno.” Then I sent her a nice high quality photo-shopped picture of nude Stargate SG1 Colonel O’Neil & Daniel and asked, “does that do anything for you?” She replied “yes! In fact it does! Send more! Send links!”
Go figure. I dunno why it does, but it does turn straight chicks on.
I love Lesbian porn, but I’m a hetero male and probably fit squarely into their target demographic.
The thing is, a lot of lesbian porn either has lame plots and stories attached to it, which is cringe-worthy at best. All I want to see are hot women (preferably more than two 
) screwing in a variety of interesting ways, ideally with a good selection of dildoes. And maybe some fetish gear, but nothing too freaky. Well, maybe just a little. 
And it’s surprisingly difficult to find lesbian videos like this- most are either 2 hours of cunnilingus (which gets boring, especially when the girl being pleasured is obviously just going through the motions), have some lame, crappy, and improbable plot attached, or else the girls just really aren’t all that attractive.
Of course, good Lesbian porn is excellent and has pride of place in the Other DVD collection ;), but bad Lesbian porn is just a very unfunny joke, IMO.
Can’t offer any comments on Gay porn because I’ve never watched it- as comfortable as I am with my sexuality, I just can’t shake the feeling that if I wanted to see a naked guy and his dick, there’s a perfectly serviceable mirror in the bathroom. But more power to those who enjoy it- different strokes and all that. (I’ll leave it to you to decide if that pun was intentional or not. )
I have known quite a few women who were into Gay porn, and couldn’t really explain why beyond “It’s hot!”- but since my own interest in Lesbian porn is difficult to explain beyond “Mmmmmm, Hot Dildo-using Lesbians!”, there’s not really much I can add…
I’ve never had the opportunity to watch gay porn, although I’ve seen bits here and there on HBO specials and similar. I guess the closest I’ve come was seeing “Brokeback Mountain.” That first sex scene was a bit shocking because it was so quick and rough, but I had no problem with the rest of the movie. There is visual appeal in seeing two handsome men in an erotic position; in fact, I can recall a couple of incidents where heterosexual male friends of mine got ‘friendly’ with each other and I found that appealing. I don’t think I’d find gay porn as a turn-on, though.
I’m a heterosexual female, by the way.
I’m not really into porn personally, but I love slash and have even dabbled in writing it a time or two. It’s just… hot. All the pretty guys. Don’t know about the lesbian thing though.
Link? Please?
Check your mail. I think I sent too much personal info. Please ignore. As for the links, I don’t know anymore. Just google slash + Stargate and you should get some good sites.
Nothing but the pictures and a here you go in there. Thank you! It is pretty good photoshopping.
I haven’t watched much gay male porn, but I would like to. (Straight female, here.) Gay sex scenes in books are a huge turn on; I don’t really know why it’s so appealing, but it is. Lesbian porn does nothing for me at all, and straight porn is sort of meh. This tread is the first I’ve heard of this slash stuff. Anyone have a link to some?
I’m really into Boys Love/yaoi myself. Every year I go to Yaoi Con which is a ton of fun. There are Slash Conventions as well, but I’ve never gone. Boys Love/yaoi/slash is all gay male porn (mostly) produced and consumed by straight women.
Renee, slash can go from PG to stuff that’s probably illegal in most countries and usually involves characters from tv shows, movies, comics, novels and bands. Most of my friends who got into it started with a tv show or movie and then searched for slash about their favorite characters. They then started branching out and reading other works by their favorite authors or stumbled across suggested websites. Like any other type of fan produced work, 90% of it is crap, so don’t get discouraged if you don’t find anything good at first. The website I linked to as an example for slash conventions has links and a livejournal community. If you have a livejournal, you can join one of the slash communities and ask for recommendations. A word of warning - a lot of young girls like slash, so if you prefer more adult, mature stories, then try to join a group/mailing list/community that is composed of older women.