I’m a lesbian with a dirty little secret.  I haven’t told my girlfriend or my best friend.  But when I search for porn online I always end up going for the gay male stuff.  What’s up with that?

worked for 14 years in a queer, feminist, co-operatively owned sex shop.  One of the most radical and fun parts of the job was talking to people about pornography.  Most mainstream pornography is neither radical nor fun, but the store opened right around the time there was a blossoming of DIY queer and queer-ish porn being made, so the material that was available was not what people were used to.  And besides that, when you take away the simplistic identity based marketing, what you find is that there are few rules about who will like what.

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