Queer Porn Rules!

Ah queer porn… one of my favorite topics. I like watching it, of course, but I'm also into talking about it, processing it and looking at it in regards to the bigger picture. Yeah, that's what happens when you're a human sexuality grad student… Anyway, here are two awesome new interviews/articles talking about the state of queer and lesbian porn, where we've been and what the future holds.

First up is an About.com interview with Nan Kinney, president of lesbian production studio Fatale Media and one of the founders of On Our Backs, the "Magazine for the Adventurous Lesbian."

A little taste:

Q: How has the lesbian porn business changed over the 23 years you've been in it?

A: "Well for one thing, there actually is a lesbian porn business now! When we started, it was like missionary work. There was no lesbian porn in the early 80s -- none. Now there are at least a handful of companies creating dyke porn. And, more importantly, dykes are recognized as a market for porn to be produced for, and there are marketing and selling resources for lesbian porn. That's huge. Basically, when we were making our first porn, we were limited to selling directly to lesbians via mail order.

Now, you have many sex-positive retail stores and a multitude of websites for lesbians to find lesbian porn. The lesbian porn market has definitely evolved in the last 20 years."

Read the rest here.


Next up, XBIZ asks 'where are the real lesbians?' and also talks with Kinney, but this time about making the move to online distribution and working with HotMoviesForHer!!

But knowing that the Internet is an ideal way to get her product out to the masses, Kinney and Fatale have teamed with HotMoviesForHer.com, at the request of HotMovies.com Account Manager Dutchie VanDyke, to get the company's films online.

"I mean why not, there are people who want it both ways," Kinney said. "I don't think one cancels out the other; the more ways to provide your customers access to your content, the better."

Plus, HMFH's own Dutchie VanDyke tells XBIZ all about hooking up with Fatale and knowing what real lesbians are looking for.

VanDyke said both straight and queer women viewers are perceptive to even the subtlest hint of fake and are easily tipped — and turned — off from it.

"You can find the fake really easily," she said, "so what we're doing with HotMoviesForHer is we're trying to keep it genuine and keep it respectful and authentic. I don't think that until recently there's been a specific indication that the interest is out there, that this model would work for them."

Check out the whole article here.


xoxo
- J.D. Bauchery
www.hotmoviesforher.com