A new study shows that gay porn is even drivg how straight guys see themselv -- and that's a good thg.
Contents:
- AM I GAY?
- LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
- SHEP SGH: “I WANT TO ASSURE OTHER YOUNG QUEER SIKHS THAT ONE COULD BE GAY AND SIKH”
AM I GAY?
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Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.
Gay Pornography: Reprentatns of Sexualy and Masculy (I. Tris), a new book by John Mercer of Bra's Birmgham Cy Universy, suggts the inography gay porn and the ials that those imag reprent are far more nuanced and diverse than they might origally appear. Rather than beg one-dimensnal, Mercer's rearch shows that morn gay adult vios and imagery offer dienc a pluraly of masculi.
A profsor of genr and sexualy at the Birmgham Centre for Media and Cultural Rearch, Mercer is also edor of the Journal of Genr Studi, founr of Porn Studi, and an edorial board member for the journals Sexuali and Celebry movg onle, gay porn has experienced an explosn terms of the amount of ntent, diversy of material, and the accs that viewers have to . The sheer magnu of the material available mak any prehensive review difficult, but Mercer has spent nearly two s rearchg how gay porn has impacted the velopment of masculy the gay muny and beyond. "People will talk about gay culture isolatn, but is based on teractn wh, [and] recyclg and appropriatn of, aspects of the wir culture, " Mercer says, and has unrgone signifint transformatn over time, reflectg the social, cultural, and polil environment of different eras.
LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
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Evolvg om the sexual revolutn through the early days of the AIDS epimic and to the morn era, gay porn is now accsed by lns of people around the globe, cludg cizens some of the most sexually reprsive natns the world.
"The rhetoric and inography of gay porn is rmg the ways which heterosexual men produce their bodi for erotic nsumptn, " Mercer says. And the rise hypersexualized, homoprovotive imagery of sportsmen. "Mercer says gay porn today also reflects a "saturated" masculy, so broadly fed and nceived that n mean "many thgs, some of them ntradictory nature.
"A paradox that li at the heart of gay porn is that is, at pots, both subversive and normative, " Mercer argu.
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"And this is vividly evinced the typ that populate the fantasy worlds of gay porn -- om the obv 'twk' and 'jock, ' but also 'chavs' and the hypermascule gay male. "Mercer wr that this unrm "orthodoxi of mascule reprentatn at the same time as producg new norms of gay sexual nduct and sexual performance. "He says gay porn today is a great tool to "unrstand how morn masculy works.