‘Cocked, locked and ready to fuck?’: a synthesis and review of the gay male pornography literature

‘Refugees welcome’, including in (gay) porn: violence under the mask of liberation

“…In more recent representations, the location becomes less important (although not always), yet the alleged hypersexual nature of Arab men remains. Within porn, Arab men are stereotyped as hypermasculine (along with Latino and Black men), in addition to being dominant and often controlling white men (Bishop 2013;Mahawatte 2004;Ortiz 1994). It could even be said Arab men in gay porn feminise the white performers through their hypermasculinity (Bishop 2013).…”

“…The attacks were quickly linked to the growing number of migrants in the country, which resulted in heightened public attitudes against migration, especially Arab men. In sum, the attacks were used to stigmatise Arab men as misogynistic, allowing the (white) German woman to be viewed as becoming victim to predatory forms of Arab hypermasculinity (Dhawan 2019)-not radically different from the hypermasculine representations of Arab men in gay porn (who are sometimes configured as heterosexual, see Bishop 2013). Such framing of Arab men as dangerous has even led to the creation of erotic literature that reproduces the rhetoric of the hypermasculine Arab migrant-often using racist and dehumanizing depictions (Ludwig 2017).…”

Assessment of Couple Relationships Standards in Same‐Sex Attracted Adults

“…In the absence of widely available same-sex relationship role models, personal experience of relationships and available media portrayals of same-sex relationship might be particularly salient in the development of relationship standards (Kohut, Fisher, & Campbell, 2017). On average, gay men are much higher users of pornography than women or straight men (Albright, 2008;Bishop, 2015), and it has been suggested that gay men might develop relationship standards based in substantial part on their viewing of pornography (Grov, Breslow, Newcomb, Rosenberger, & Bauermeister, 2014). This raises the possibility of larger gender differences in relationship standards in same-sex attracted people than heterosexuals.…”

Viewing of Internet-Based Sexually Explicit Media as a Risk Factor for Condomless Anal Sex among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Four U.S. Cities

“…The greater availability of sexually explicit media (SEM) made possible by the Internet [ 1 , 2 ] has resulted in increased viewing of SEM. Data from the General Social Survey have documented a steady increase in SEM viewing among U.S. men since the 1970s [ 3 ].…”

“…Despite discussion of the potential of SEM to encourage condomless anal sex among MSM [ 1 , 7 ], relatively little research has examined this hypothesized relationship. Although some research has found that viewing more SEM in general is associated with a greater likelihood of engaging in condomless anal sex [ 11 ], other research has found that more viewing of SEM containing condomless anal sex is associated with a greater likelihood of engaging in the same behavior [ 5 , 10 ] and more condomless anal sex partners [ 4 ].…”