Martin revealed that he receives numerous letters from fans asking for more explicit m/m sex scenes to be included in the show, and that “most of the letters come from women”.Īn analysis of billions of hits to PornHub (one of the largest online porn sites in the world) shows that m/m is consistently the second most popular category for women visitors, and that women make up 37% of m/m porn viewers – suggesting that women represent viable secondary consumers of this type of porn. Media producers are starting to catch on: Game of Thrones author George R. Often they’ll launch into an enthusiastic recount of how hot it was when Jason and Eric made out in True Blood, or how much they enjoyed Anthony Kedis and Dave Navarro snogging in The Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ Warped video. Either with happy affirmations of their own interest in male-on-male (m/m) erotica, or with intrigue and a desire to know more. Women tend to respond a little differently. Other times they’ll look at me askance and say, “that’s … just weird”. Sometimes they’ll add “Oh, like when guys like lesbian porn”. Men tend to tilt their heads quizzically to one side. When I tell people I’m studying women who like gay male porn I get some pretty mixed responses.
