Women who like to watch gay porn
Oct. 15th, 2008 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reviews_and_ramblingsInteresting article by Lisa Scott on Metro.co.uk even if I don't agree with her in this claim
"Watching and reading gay male porn also allows women to explore unchartered territory. When women are faced with a male and female romance or sex scene, they naturally associate with the female. When it's men-only, you can be whatever you fancy - submissive or dominant."
I have my theory, an evolution of Laura Kinsale's theory on why women read romance; Kinsale said that when a woman read a romance she identifies herself in the hero, not in the heroine, and this is the reason why some female authors have so strong male characters. So, for me, I read M/M romance since I have the chance to identify me in TWO characters and not only one; in other words, no one of the main characters in the book has a lesser role, they are both protagonist.
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrosexual/article.html?Women_who_like_to_watch_gay_porn&in_article_id=356386&in_page_id=8&in_a_source=
"Watching and reading gay male porn also allows women to explore unchartered territory. When women are faced with a male and female romance or sex scene, they naturally associate with the female. When it's men-only, you can be whatever you fancy - submissive or dominant."
I have my theory, an evolution of Laura Kinsale's theory on why women read romance; Kinsale said that when a woman read a romance she identifies herself in the hero, not in the heroine, and this is the reason why some female authors have so strong male characters. So, for me, I read M/M romance since I have the chance to identify me in TWO characters and not only one; in other words, no one of the main characters in the book has a lesser role, they are both protagonist.
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrosexual/article.html?Women_who_like_to_watch_gay_porn&in_article_id=356386&in_page_id=8&in_a_source=
watcher
Date: 2009-04-11 09:04 pm (UTC)Re: watcher
Date: 2009-04-11 09:10 pm (UTC)I ask the same thing to myself since people continue to ask me why I read M/M romance... actually I really don't know, the simple answer for me is since I like them. But it's a too simple answer.