So not only are women watching guys bang they’re also reading about it too. The same can be seen in modern fan fiction where male-on-male slash pairings are by far the most common, and again predominantly written and read by young women. It has a huge following and is primarily written by and marketed toward young women.
The traditions go far back in Japanese and Chinese culture in a genre known as “boys love.” This genre of fiction can take the form of manga comics, film, literature, internet forums, and TV series and generally depicts androgynous boys being gay together. Women consuming male-on-male erotica is far from a new phenomenon. So for a lot of women that makes for uncomfortable viewing. Much of the heterosexual porn out there can be exploitative, dehumanizing, degrading, and display troubling gender dynamics, and even if it doesn’t, most are still inextricable from an industry that is built on monetizing all those things. But it’s not just the content that women are finding unsatisfactory, it is the context also. Without meaning to yuck anyone else’s yum, for most women, watching another lady get spermed on doesn't quite cut it. But perhaps it’s not surprising that more and more women are ditching heterosexual porn for something a little gayer? Heterosexual porn is predominately made for and by men, meaning it rarely caters to what women want to see.
