Seriously Though, Old People — Gay Sex Is So Vanilla, You Don’t Even Know (NSFW)
This week has been a little heavy on the social issues (well, apart from the Avengers nod on Tuesday, I suppose), so let’s just go ahead and cover one more before we try to take things easy:
People of our own sex is like the least fucked-up thing my generation has ever had a sexualized interest in. For serious.
I don’t know if people who still use TVs instead of the internet are actually aware of this. I have a sneaking suspicion that when you say “explicit sexuality” they’re still thinking “HBO’s A Game of Thrones.“
This stuff.
There’s not really a gentle way to say this, so I’ll just lay it out there: oh good Christ no.
For a relatively tame example, let’s take the concept of futanari. In the simplest definition futanari means a female character with male genitalia, which is probably something of a jarring image if your idea of steamy is Khal Drogo up there spooning with a blonde.
This, only usually naked and doing sex. Seriously, it took me a long time to find a tame example.
Now adjust your world to understand that the futanari concept is super mainstream.
Not so much in live film, of course, for obvious technical reasons, although the U. S. has always had a reasonably thriving niche market of “she-male” porn. But the massive influence of 4chan.com and imitator “photoboard” sites has basically turned internet porn into a giant free-for-all of two-dimensional images, and that means that hentai (erotic anime) gets to share the main stage. And hentai is just full of futanari.
So you’re talking about a population that finds this stuff mainstream, often even tedious. It is not at all unusual to see people complaining about all the lame “futa” crap cluttering up more subject-specific image threads. I will leave it to either your imagination or your prior experience to decide what people with that kind of exposure might find freaky or fetishistic.
But it really does beg the question — who still expects anyone with a working internet connection to find same-sex relationships bizarre and troubling? It’s like worrying about the graphic violence in Star Wars.
There is really freaky shit out there if you want to look for it. People falling in love and wanting to get married — or even just wanting to bone in a commitment-free sort of way — does not qualify.
Pick a new thing to be afraid of.
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