Putting Porn Into Perspective

Sorry about the alliteration there in the title. Ah, the poetics of porn.

I guess I said a lot--perhaps too much--on the subject of gay porn in my last post. I'd like to break it down and come to a conclusion on the subject.

We're a group that is defined by sex. But what happens when the group is broken down into categories of sexual taste? I mean, twink, bear, and "straight-acting" gays now have their own culture. They are gay plus. What happens if these categories become something more? Could we see a new language form to separate the bears from not only the mainstream straight culture, but from the other types of gays?

One final thought: I just looked back at what I'd written and I'd like to revisit what I'd said about barebacking porn. It made me uncomfortable to read what I'd written because the truth of it is unsettling. I am in no way supporting it. I know there are people out there who get off on barebacking and the danger of possibly getting infected during unprotected sex. There are also infected men out there who get off on infecting non-infected men. I'm not about that at all. To me, those homosexuals hate themselves. They hate being gay so they get infected and infect other self-hating homosexuals.

All of you smart homosexuals out there know that sex can't be had without protection.

Porn is fantasy. But is it something more? If I watch porn that has a lot of kissing and "loving", I think to myself, this is important to see. Kissing, especially. Kissing is a form of affection. It represents a natural sort of love and tenderness. Fucking is lust. It puts homosexual desire into action. So gay porn with kissing and fucking becomes something more to me. It becomes a weapon. A freedom. The act of fucking may be absent of love, but the expression is not. Does that make sense? I don't know. It's fucking, right? People getting paid to fuck. It's prostitution, right? Or is it something more?