Percentage of straight gay porn actors
Often when I go out and my friends ask me to identify whether another girl is gay, I - not unlike the girls in Scarcella's video - make sweeping judgements like, "Oh, her nails are long - she can't possibly be gay," or, "A gay girl wouldn't be caught dead in that outfit." I and many other women who like women have also made bold claims about how other girls have sex, saying this like, " Scissoring totally doesn't exist," or, "Lesbians don't like anal." While statements like this may have statistical or numerical value, they cannot be used to categorize the behaviors, sexual or otherwise, of all lesbians. I myself as a queer woman have fallen victim to adhering to this kind of narrative. We're not the ones who get to decide how someone else identifies. How can we know how someone identifies based on how they act in bed?" We can't - and that's the whole point. In fact, Scarcella says it herself at the end of the video: "How we express our sexuality has nothing to do with our sexual orientation. Some red flags and causes for judgement include French fisting, looking like they're acting, unusual or particularly large-looking toys, or poorly executed fingering.īut it can sometimes be entertaining to watch one group of people attempt to identify another group of people based off of nothing more than a video - while it's true that a lot of porn intended to depict lesbian sex stars straight women and is created for a straight gaze - Scarcella's video also drives home this very important point: Sex acts shouldn't actually be considered a marker for sexuality. The "rules" of being a convincing lesbian in porn according to the video require performers to: Visibly look like you're into having sex with your female partners, be into kissing her vagina, be visibly appreciative, put your hair in a ponytail so you don't get lady fluids all over it, finger other ladies with consistency, and have good form. Some of them make immediate, sweeping judgments saying things like, "The blonde girl is straight for sure," or, "She kissed it, that's a gay thing to do" other times, they describe the women as "iffy" or "probably curious." In fact, there appear to be an awful lot of do's and don'ts required to convincingly perform lesbian sex in porn. A new YouTube video released by lesbian YouTuber Arielle Scarcella capitalizes on this fact titled " Lesbians Guess: Straight Girls or Gay Girls in P*rn," the video features - you guessed it - lesbians watching various porn videos and trying to guess the sexuality of the women starring in them based off how they have sex with their partners. As a result, a huge amount of porn found under the "lesbian" category isn't necessarily made for actual lesbians, or by them.
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It's no secret that most mainstream porn is created with a very specific audience in mind - namely, straight men.