Compare and contrast.

[randomness]

Thought for the late night, partly inspired by a face-to-face comment by rmd about gay regency romances mostly being written by and read by women, and partly from a post by digitalemur called Fun with YAOI, or things I come across at work:

Is there any similarity in this kind of man-to-man fiction mostly created and read by women to the girl-on-girl photosets mostly being photographed by and viewed by men?

Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi has a useful overview of the yaoi phenomenon.

Comments

[allyphoe.livejournal.com]

You seriously have a hard time finding lesbian-oriented (as opposed to girl-on-girl) porn? IME, it's much harder to find non-sexually-explicit lesbian-oriented stuff. Check out the lesbian section at a big chain bookstore sometime. The ones close to me have two categories of books - "Best Lesbian Erotica / How to Have Hot Lesbian Sex" and "Coming Out." Good Vibrations (which is pretty mainstream) has lesbian-oriented video porn.

[nezumiko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I actually checked out the Best Lesbian Erotica series, and the writing was really variable. There were one or two good stories in there, but most of it was almost painful. I read it and decided it was really aimed more at men than women, like the girl-on-girl video. But maybe I'm being too picky.

I've never tried any of GoodVibe's videos, but I'll have to investigate. I think it is starting to be available, it's just that there isn't as much of a history of erotica aimed at lesbians.

[allyphoe.livejournal.com]

I think it's more that good porn is hard to find in general. Straight porn IME tends to be laughably bad, boring, or both.