Straight guy checking in, agreeing with Guin but with genders switched.
Look, it’s not hard. (One pun and I get the 12-gauge.) We like to see women having sex. Lesbian porn is women having sex. Therefore, by modus poens, guys like to see lesbian porn.
Were you reading my mind?
20-year-old completely straight female here. I will admit that I get turned on by the guy-guy thing. Girl-girl doesn’t do anything for me at all, however. And my friends are kinda split on the issue. I have two friends who go “ewww!” at the subject of gay sex, and I have one friend who agrees it’s kind of hot and one friend who’s so crazy about it she write innumerable volumes of slash fics and her notebooks are chock-full of shounen-ai and yaoi drawings (some rather explicit – she’s a very good artist…). But yeah, what’s not to like? One hot guy=good. Two hot guys=even better. Sex=good. Two hot guys having sex=great!
That’s my point of view at least.
Straight guy. Don’t find lesbian porno (even lipstick lesbians) attractive. I have no fantasies about threesomes either though, maybe that’s related.
I’ve heard quotes from the producers of that show, commenting that more than half the people watching QAF are het women. The guy who plays Brian Kinney is very pretty, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
This seems a little overcomplicated to me. Obviously, we’ve evolved to find certain traits in other human beings attractive, but I don’t think our reptile brains think it through that clearly. It’s simply that if one man with nice pecs and a healthy face is desirable, then 2 must be even more desirable. This doesn’t make logical sense, because these gay men aren’t about to have sex with us, but our genes don’t know that. Our genes don’t really know how to deal with modern society. The time lapse is too huge.
Now, I realize that not all women find, ahem, man-on-man action hot, but I honestly think this is more of a cultural thing. I’m not a gung-ho male-hater by any means, but women are expected to be more repressed sexually, in general. And the cultural taboos against male homosexuality are FAR stronger than that against female homosexuality. I’m painting with a very wide brush here, I know, and I’m not trying to say that if you don’t go for the idea it means you’re somehow messed up–this is just generally speaking. Not everyone is the same, and not all men like the girl-on-girl action.
I know that I like the idea myself. It pushes my buttons. I don’t think it has anything to do with reality, but this is the case with all porn, really.
Well, I think to the degree that I like slash it’s because it shows men whose motives can be trusted. They have no reason to lie about affection.
I think the appeal for me in all porn is in identifiying with someone. I don’t look at it to see attractive people, and as long as they are within shouting distance of average I don’t care how they look. I like lesbian porn of the real and fake variety because I identify with the female receiving pleasure. I like male gay porn because I identify with whoever’s getting it. I never watch any porn to admire people particularly. I’ve figured out that the main thing for me with porn is identifying with a person who is receiving pleasure.
I think straight men like to see women together because they can admire naked women and get off on that, and because they can identify to a degree with whoever is active since they probably perform oral or whatever in real life. But it really seems to me that men do not actually PREFER to see two women together because they would like to see a man involved so they can identify. There are zillions of blowjobs in porn and I don’t think that’s because it makes women look pretty.
Part of the reason that everyone thinks men love lesbians so much is that they yap about it all the time but how much of that is just talk? Straight men don’t want to respond to straight sex in public for a bunch of reasons. If a man shows arousal at seeing a straight couple making out in public, how are people going to respond? Yet most straight porn has always been about heterosexual sex. All girl is popular, but it’s not dominant. So, why would that be if men love all girl so much? I think it’s that it’s 100 times easier for a man to express interest in two women in front of other people. I have probably heard a man make the joke “can I watch” at least 200 times in my life. NEVER has a guy had the guts to say it about two people of the opposite sex. He’d be risking a punch in the face. But it’s okay for men to make these kinds of comments to women, to talk about it a LOT, so they do. So it gets emphasised as if it’s every man’s dream to watch two chicks get it on. Meanwhile, scratch the surface, maybe it’s his dream to see his best friend get it on with his girlfriend, or to see a strange man and strange woman have sex, but he’s not going to start yapping about that at the sports bar now is he?