Well, I don't comment very aggressively on the topic but I do think widespread porn is misaligned with my goals and a net loss for sexual liberation. I think porn upholds heteronormativity, it's the primary reason why 'straight' men have not broken through the barrier of homophobia to claim bisexual identification over the past few decades in the same way women have. Something close to one third of young women identify as bisexual now, whereas it was around 5% in the year 2000. Meanwhile, the rate of bisexual identification in men has gone from like, 1.5% to 2.5%. Porn is the reason for that disparity. As soon as homophobia lessened widespread digital pornography gained traction.
We've inherited a whole cultural mythology of circle jerks and homoerotic frat hazing rituals and none of that happens anymore really. it used to! Militaries, boarding schools, logging camps, fraternities, YMCA hostels, sailors, monasteries, and cowboys all had reputations as hotbeds of homosexuality for a reason.
C.S. Lewis wrote about his all-boys boarding school and the rampant normative homosexuality there in his autobiography:
<A Tart is a pretty and effeminate-looking small boy who acts as a catamite to one or more of his seniors. […] They were not like slaves, for their favors were (nearly always) solicited, not compelled. Nor were they exactly like prostitutes, for the liaison often had some permanence and, far from being merely sensual, was highly sentimentalized. […] You will have missed the atmosphere of our House unless you picture the whole place from week's end to week's end buzzing, tittering, hinting, whispering about this subject. After games, gallantry was the principal topic of polite conversation; who had a case with whom, whose star was in the ascendant, who had whose photo, who and when and how often and what night and where…. I suppose it might be called the Greek Tradition.Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas wrote in his own memoirs, Before Night Falls, about his own peaseant childhood growing up in rural, mud-hut, pre-electricity 1940s Cuba:
<In the country, I think, it is a rare man who has not had sexual relations with another man. Physical desire overpowers whatever feelings of machismo our fathers take upon themselves to instill in us.Young men who didn't have sexual access to women would become increasingly sexually frustrated
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