Sappho Speaks: The Leaning of Some Towards Gay Male Porn

What Would Sappho Say?

Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)

I know, I know, not you, right? Ok, so I am not talking about you particularly, but I do know that Sappho has indulged in watching Zeus and Apollo go at it like the Greek gods they are and so do plenty of my lesbian brethren. Over the years, it has been amazing the number of women that have come out of the woodwork as prospectors of man on man action in their sexual lives.

It’s true. In the privacy of their own bedrooms, lesbians are watching gay male porn videos, surfing gay male porn websites, and looking at their magazines. I remember early on when as Sappho's Muse I first watched these movies with a male friend and became aroused, I was sure I was the isolated case and it confused the hell out of me. Thank Sappho I have a big mouth and was willing to share my story soon after that and found I was not so alone. I still had big questions.

Why would women who had sex only with women get turned on watching two men go at each other with such intensity? Why would women with no desire to be with a real penis get aroused watching penises have sex with each other? Well, we certainly weren’t getting such real expressions of raw sexuality on screen anywhere else. There is something to be said for gay male porn on its own merits. It does not involve the degradation of women in any way, shape, or form, therefore even feminists could watch with a clear conscious. There is no worry about political power, exploitation, and violence against women. The players are all very hot and the focus is on the sex, not the sentiment. Isn’t that what porn should be about?

All I had to do was google “lesbian gay male porn” and the answer was clear that this topic is one that has been chewed over many times before I got here like After Ellen's 835 Search Results, Planet Out's Op-Ed 'Why Do I Like Gay Men's Porn. I'm A Lesbian and oh so many more.... It seems to be a pandemic of activity around the the central theme of watching gay men fuck each other. I do know that over the years the number of women in my life that have freely admitted to indulging in the pastime has consistently gone up as the freedom to talk about all things homosexual has risen.

Whenever the topic has come up as a free and flowing conversation, it seemed that many of the reasons for finding gay male porn so sexy was that it released a part of them that allowed the fantasy of total domination over someone else as that is often what gay male sex is all about. They were also allowed to indulge in the rougher stuff, without the distraction of wondering if they are faking it, if anyone is being hurt as men are strong and are incapable of faking it. There is also the fact that these women enjoyed seeing men do to each other what they do to women – yeah, do it to each other and leave us out of it – the power play! No Woman Was Harmed In The Making Of This Movie!

It appears that written gay male porn is even more exciting for some lesbians than are videos as then the imagination rules the day. When you are allowed to create your own mental pictures, the often volcanic cum shots, which can be distasteful for some can lose their significance in the written word.

As far as the penises are concerned, the phallocentric gay male porn is not completely incongruous to lesbian sexuality. It is not much of a reach to imagine why lesbians watch gay male porn when you see how today’s lesbian identity is rich with diverse concepts such as butch, femme, queer, lesbian fag, boi, grrl, daddy, mommy – and all subtle graduations in between all the way to transgender. Some of these roles include the strap-on or hand-used dildos, phallic-shaped vibrators, or “packing” (wearing a faux penis inside the clothes) as a serious intimate life choice.

So, gay male porn has had its impact on the lesbian community, due to the host of reasons above and the paucity and quality of lesbian porn designed by and for the lesbian community. Porn purveyors have known for some time the appeal of cross-orientational watching. We all knew that straight men like to watch girl-girl action (the fake kind). But what other crossover watching besides gay women is going on out there? Well, a number of my gay male friends tell me they like straight porn and I know straight women get off on lesbian (the fake and real kind, whatever they can get their hands on!) porn. Could it be that if gay men were exposed to real lesbian porn they’d get off on it? My instincts tell me NO WAY!!!!! Most of us cannot even stomach it.

Much Love.


Inspired By Sappho’s Muse

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