I absolutely cannot watch “lesbian” porn for the male gaze. Can’t do it. (*In my opinion) It’s cheap and shitty and the women, despite more physical diversity than there used to be, still feel like they’re all the same person.

And I’m sort of on the cusp of understanding it, but I also wanted to get y’all’s takes on it. I think, for me, it might be the performative piece of it? Like, you can sort of tell theyre not really “pleasing” each other for their each other’s pleasure. But then why does straight porn feel like the woman is, in fact, pleasing the man? Is it the obvious, visible result of an orgasm? That knowledge of completion, whereas women can’t demonstrably prove we’ve come?

Either way, I’m just so grossed out. It has to be obviously real couples in a real relationship to hold any level of heat for me.