Queer Chicks and Fag Porn
PervScan regular Geek Space sent a link to columnist Tristan Taormino’s essay “Girls Love Gay Male Porn.” “I think this tidbit is cool,” wrote Geek Space, “and I’d love to have some Supervert insights into it…”
First off, it should be noted that Ms. Taormino is a very intelligent writer at the forefront of gender studies. In a way, what she writes about is quite different than what usually appears on PervScan. For her, perv is probably a sex-positive term with radical political meanings for gender and identity. For PervScan, perv isn’t quite so ideological a term. The pervs featured here are usually on their way to jail for fucking animals, kids, or corpses. The gender of these pervs is typically male. Their identity isn’t a matter of gender-bending. It’s a matter of mug shots.
Taormino’s column begins with the observation that straight women like gay porn — which isn’t very perplexing to contemplate, given that straight men like lesbian porn too. But what about queer women who like to watch gay male porn?
Another person chimed in: “Do you like fag porn? All my queer female friends do.” Hers wasn’t a surprising question. I know lesbians who dig it more than any other kind of hardcore fare. I briefly dated a genderqueer dyke who just loved gay male porn: She ran out and got the newest title from her favorite company the day it came out. In this case, she adored movies from Bel Ami (belamionline.com), which feature young, hairless European lads (think the boy-on-boy version of the straight barely-legal genre). The boys are very pretty and androgynous, and some of them could definitely be mistaken for dykes with their clothes on. But other girl-loving girls love über-butch men, leather daddies, and big hairy bears, so it’s not always about androgyny. By now, I think it’s commonplace to accept that queer women love queer male porn, but what is that all about?
By way of explanation, Taormino points out that there is a relative paucity of “lesbian porn produced by and for lesbians.” Evidently lesbians aren’t attracted to the sort of “lesbian porn” that is produced for straight men. Furthermore, notes Taormino, many lesbians “identify with various forms of masculinity.” The implication seems to be that, when such a lesbian enjoys viewing gay male porn, it’s because in her own mind she’s sort of a man — thus she becomes like one of those men who enjoys watching gay male porn.
If all this starts to sound convoluted, perhaps that is precisely the point. Anything goes. Gender studies can’t help but intersect perverse behavior because, out there in the wilds, there are inevitably people who harbor the strangest combinations of desire. There are gay men inhabiting the bodies of women and making like lesbians. There are children lusting inside the bodies of adults — pedophiles. There are animals lusting for other animals inside the bodies of humans. There are cocks that want to be feet, vaginas that wish they were assholes, and assholes that might as well be duffle bags, given what people shove into them.
I guess this must be different from Yaoi, since that’s drawn by straight middle-aged women for straight teenage girls. “Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi” even means “no climax, no point, no meaning” (kind of defeating the object of porn, you’d think…).
But then again, no one’s saying that the lesbians in the article look at gay porn the same way they look at lesbian porn, so maybe it is the same thing after all.
” assholes that might as well be duffle bags, given what people shove into them. ”
Sorry, that made me snigger. I was at once reminded of the medical history notes featuring two Gay guys and a bag of Quick Drying Cement! LOL!
thanks for refing me supervert ! :)
but more importantly thanks for your words/insights. i’m gonna try to absorb them/*now* !!! :)
As a mostly lesbian woman who happens to have a boyfriend currently, I have to agree that gender and sexuality can be awfully convoluted. Despite the fact that I’m not (usually) sexually attracted to men, I too enjoy gay male porn. Part of it is relating to it from the masculinity in me, and thus enjoying it from a gay male perspective, in a way. Part of it is getting off on the taboo, that good ole’ standby. Although homosexuality is much more accepted these days, it is still considered perverse to a degree, particularly male homosexuality. Also, it’s fun to watch people get off and really enjoy themselves and sometimes the specifics of genders, positions, fetishes, and actions come secondary to just viewing some pleasure happening.
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