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Life was becoming a little bit easier for gay porn fans but it’s still hardly accessible due to technology constraints and public risks.
The 1980s
The drastic increase of VCR productions made way of watching porn in the comfort of everyone’s private spaces in the 1980s. It was just the beginning of photography but people already knew how to use these old photographs and this then-newly developed technology.
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Blaylock, Stuart. Moreover, the intervening two and half millennia of criminalisation and taboo did spawn, and not just in retrospect, their own “legit”, implicit homoerotic representations.
Interestingly, these relatively “dark ages” often based their homoerotic representations on a somewhat idealised, sanitised and socially-sanctioned reading of classicism: untouchable, timeless, idealised and solitary Adonis-type figures, beautifully limp – where not thinly veiled – and staring wistfully at the stars.
As business boomed, Mizer looked for another way to distribute his images. Gay porn has grown by this time to the point where even some established theaters that showed explicit gay movies to draw gay audiences to have sex with each other within the theater.
This was also an era where production outfits started recruiting gay men to act for their porn movies.
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, a trade association, began to ask for scripts to be submitted for approval before they would release the films. Sadly, he was imprisoned in 1947 for this artistry.
Another pioneer around late 1950s was Tom of Finland who made illustrations of hugely muscular men (most of them we can categorize today as bears and DILFs).
Much of lesbian gay porn isn’t made for gay women, but for heterosexual men, a phenomenon pointed out by Slate: “[Lesbian porn] does not depict us, nor does it serve our needs as consumers of porn.”
One lesbian described the lesbian porn of the web as “Women with extra long fingernails…looking bored while idly thumbing one another’s [privates].”
While we still have a long way to go, looking back on the history of gay porn and the legacy of the first gay porn films is a reminder that we’ve already come a long way.
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Today’s showcase episode traces the evolution of obscenity laws and the struggles of a community to obtain the kind of sex-positive, identity-affirming erotic material that most of us today of all orientations pretty much take for granted.
By contrast, Flandrin’s depicted boy sits, head between folded legs, concealing – perhaps even closeting in shame – his undoubted manhood.
There is no overt suggestion that either works are solely or even primarily intended for the erotic gratification of other male beholders. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy.
One of the partners is dressed as a woman and it’s only later in the film that we’re shown that this character is a man. Cameras that enabled filmmakers to make underground gay porn was on the rise and movies like masturbating men were made using them. 2021, Mar 1.
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“The Swimming Hole” by Thomas Eakins, 1884-1885, from Wikipedia.
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by Adrian Gillan for Bent Gay Shop and Magazine
From Greek vases to Victorian photos; from American physique mags to R18 DVDs, the web and beyond: Adrian Gillan guides you through three millennia of gay porn in the “Western World”.
Pornography — from the Greek πορνογραφία (pornographia) — literally means writing about, or drawing, prostitutes.
Physique magazines were too tame by comparison and either fizzled out or adapted to meet the new opportunity and demand.
(5) Post-Stonewall: Birth of an industry, challenge of the internet
The modern concept of a gay porn “industry” has tended to mirror and trail mainstream “straight” porn, rather than lead it – often, naturally, kept lagging behind by restrictive anti-gay laws.
Filmmakers could also be fined for violating the “guidelines” of the code.
To get around censorship regulations, filmmakers started adding homosexual subtext to their films a.k.a queercoding. It’s from these stag films that we see some of the very first gay porn films such as Le Manage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly, The Surprise of a Knight, and A Stiff Game.
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A silent film in 1964 where he features an uncredited model receiving a head but all you see is his orgasmic facial expression so Warhol leaves you imagining what’s really going on under the table.
Late 20th Century
This era was dubbed as “The Golden Age of Porn“. This device is still being widely used as of today and it never goes out of fashion.