LESBIAN
"Girl-on-Girl" is a porn category designed for heterosexual men, into which the viewer projects themselves, but without any men on screen. It's more of a spectacle than a representation of genuine lesbian desire.
Except that queer intimacy is not a public performance!
ORIGIN OF THE TERM
Is being in the top porn category a means of visibility? False.
Being reduced to a "kink" watched by heterosexuals is dehumanizing. Lesbian actresses are cast for stereotypes, not for their truth.
The result: female-female relationships become a spectacle whose success is measured by male sex appeal, fueling the idea that these bodies are "available".
PORNOTYPES CODES
Lesbian porn has its own style, with a mainstream aesthetic geared towards visibility. This mainstream normalizes a static image that harms its community and normalizes the harassment suffered by the queer community.
Lesbian relationships are made invisible and hyper-sexualized (porn for heterosexuals).
No other orientation experiences this:
gay porn = for gay men,
hetero porn = for heterosexuals
Lesbian porn = for heterosexual men.
So we have a strong structural imbalance.
HETERO SUCCESS EXPLAINED
This success can be explained by the absence of male rivals. Pornhub confirms that the "Lesbian" category has been number one in the US since 2014. Marketing and algorithms ensure the category's success.
FINAL DECONSTRUCTION
Fetishizing lesbians = patriarchal control and transformation of authentic desire into an 8-minute video.
But some queer creators are showing the way: lesbian porn by and for women, with real pleasure, real bodies.
And to see further
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Queer fetishization
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Male gaze lesbians
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Queer not kink
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Heterosexual/lesbian porn
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Mainstream codes