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Past research has identified a subgenre of mainstream pornography that attempts to create the illusion for consumers that sex is occurring between an adult and a minor (i.e., a child or young adolescent under the age of 18). This illusion is established through various textual, verbal, visual, and behavioral cues. Although the construction of adult-minor relationships in pornography has received some scholarly attention, there has been no attempt to investigate this phenomenon within pornographic videos available through the Internet. The current study addressed this omission by analyzing for content 150 of the most popular "teen" pornography videos appearing on three pornography websites. The researchers coded for textual, visual, verbal, and behavioral content that connoted sexual activity between an adult and a minor.Results indicated that a small number of videos (28, 18.7% of the sample) contained a disproportionate percentage of cues (54.2%), with the remaining videos containing little or no youth sexualized content. The researchers conclude that only a subsample of videos clearly attempted to portray adult-minor relationships. The prevalence of various cues within the sample was quantified and discussed, as were limitations associated with this study and directions for future research.

To date, few researchers have investigated gay men's stereotypic beliefs about drag queens and the association between these beliefs and individual difference variables such as hypermasculinity. To address this omission, 118 men self-identifying as non-heterosexual completed an online survey consisting of an adjective checklist about drag queens and a psychometrically sound indicant of hypermasculinity. As predicted, participants who were more likely to endorse hypermasculine belief statements tended to perceive negatively valenced attributes as more characteristic of drag queens. Possible explanations for this relationship, limitations associated with the current study, and directions for future research are delineated.

Using a combination of personal reflections, published literature, and original empirical research, we argue that the disgust triggered by gay men's sexual practices (specifically, anal intercourse) is a critical, though overlooked, contributor to heterosexual men and women's homonegativity (i.e., negative attitudes and behaviors directed toward men who are or are perceived to be gay). We conclude our article by articulating several directions for future inquiry that we believe will advance current understanding of prejudice and discrimination directed toward gay men.

A variety of pressing questions on the current topics and trends in gay male pornography were sent out to the contributors of this special issue. The answers provided were then collated into a 'virtual' discussion. In a brief concluding section, the contributors' answers are reflected upon holistically in the hopes of shedding light on the changing face of gay male pornography.