Pornography Essay

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The LGBT community uses pornography for their erotic needs just like the heterosexual community. Similarly, they are present in pornography just as straight people are present. The lines between heterosexual and LGBT are blurred by the industry though, as Martin Amis from The Guardian writes about what porn-star Chloe tells him her prices are, “girl-girl: $700, plus $100 for an anal toy. Boy-girl: $900. Anal: $1,100. Solo [a rarity]: $500. [Double Penetration]: $1,500” (Chloe quoted in Amis). If a performer can get paid for all kinds of sexual acts, why would they limit themselves to just one? Therefore, people, no matter their identifying sexuality, can be in any kind of pornography. Interestingly enough however, homosexual, bisexual, …show more content…

Kangasvuo (2007) writes, “While bisexual women are presented as sexually uninhibited, experienced and open, bisexual men are presented as married and closeted gays who need a gay man to give them some cock” (p. 147). Even in this small quote, we see how not only does male bisexuality have a specific place, but a specific place in the heterosexual world; a man must first be married, legitimized in a heterosexual relationship, before he can be considered truly bisexual. Otherwise, men are at risk of being labeled as gay. Kangasvuo (2007) recounts a story in another one of the pornography magazines in her study where two men have sex often and have to valiantly prove they are not gay but, in fact, bisexual. They are told they both have to participate in a pornographic photo-shoot with a woman or no one will believe them. They do, and all seems well until, when going back over the pictures, it is discovered that one of the men never had his penis inside of the girl's vagina. Therefore, the editor concludes that he is gay. Kangasvuo (2007) goes on to write, “The story restores the binary sexual division, assuring reader that a man desiring other men is ultimately gay, independent of his self-identification or any other sexual acts that he may perform. Male bisexuality is ridiculously impossible since attraction …show more content…

. . The setting also has connotations of the remote, the separate, as in lesbian separatism or lesbian love life outside of hetero cities and hetero city limits, in an untouched zone where lesbians can express themselves freely and, although the scenes are shot out in the open, privately. (p. 175)
It was a good step towards normalizing lesbianism as an identity and not a quirk. Lesbians then went to be portrayed as suburb living middle ages women who had monogamous partners and jobs (Butler (2004) p. 179). They could be your neighbors; they are familiar. Homosexual lesbian pornography as opposed to heterosexual lesbian pornography gives lesbians this visible freedom of

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