Have You Ever Watched Lesbian Porn?

[longtime lurker]

There was a discussion recently (maybe Avalon started it?) about 1 in 3 (or 1 in 4?) male gay porn viewers being female. Reason: heterosexual porn is too focused on the female performers and not enough on the males to arouse heterosexual female viewers. Also the performances seem less forced in many cases since usually guys are cast who are genuinely attracted to each other and enjoy what they are doing. Not that heterosexual porn stars can't be, but quite often they do go-through-the-motions more than usual. Also many outspoken feminists tend to find heterosexual porn (often with the man on top and the woman submissive) more offensive but seldom bat an eye over the male gay material. This reminds me of the famous scene in The Kids Are All Right when Julianne Moore's character must watch all-guy material in order to get in-the-mood to have sex with Annette Bening.

 

Most of the lesbian activities I've seen are in heterosexual porn since it doesn't seem to have a wide market like the male/female and male/male material. I have to say that it can be pretty hot if women are actually "into" each other. You don't think so much about "am I attracted to women's bodies?" if it looks convincing. Personally I am only turned off by close-ups of the vagina.

 

During porn's early theatrical years, maybe less so in today's internet age, there was a lot of lesbian activity interspersed with male/female scenes and often done with more creativity. In the landmark Behind The Green Door, the best scene will always be the one with Marilyn Chambers being pleasured by a group of women rather than the racially offensive jungle rhythm session with Johnny Keyes and infamous trapeze act (in which you mostly just see a few penis shots and not the rest of the guys' bodies). Even more erotic are the lesbian scenes in the famous soft-core (and otherwise dreadfully boring) Emmanuelle. These, of course, are early films made when there were actual plots and dialogue in-between the sex scenes.

 

Again, I've mentioned this one before here as a good one to "test the waters" (so to speak) since you get the best of both worlds: Radley Metzger's Score, another relic from the Nixon years, features a brief soft-core heterosexual scene and explicit hard-core male gay (Casey Donovan & Gerald Grant) and lesbian (Lynn Lowry & Claire Wilbur) scenes edited together in a lengthy, very cinematic sequence. You can tell the actresses are faking it due to on-set hostility but Casey and Gerald just can't get enough of each other... so, yes, many here will easily sit through this one. Plus it is a comedy with very sharp writing.

[BaronArtz]

Only when I was a teenager and didn't know better. Lesbian soft porn movies were sort of mainstream in Europe, especially in France. They were faux-artistic. I remember 'Emanuelle' and 'Bilitis'. 'Bilitis' rhymes with 'clitoris' of course. Not sure that was intentional.

 

Bilitis is a 1977 French romantic and erotic drama film, which was directed by photographer David Hamilton with a music score by Francis Lai. It starred Patti D'Arbanville and Mona Kristensen as the title character Bilitis and Melissa, respectively.

 

Many of my male friends had David Hamilton posters on their dorm room wall. And posters of Farah Fawcett. Gross!