Stop With the Sex Hypocrisy

By Oscar Leigh · Mar 3, 2016 · 697 · 2
  1. So, has anyone else noticed, there's gotta be a bunch, that gay sexuality is given a different standard? The standard for gay people, especially the gay gays, being overly-flirtatious seems to be lower. You can get away with more sexual expression when you're straight. It's so bullshit to call it "shoving your sexuality in people's faces" when all you did was say a few guys were hot. Ever wonder where the stereotype of very sexual gays came from? One reason is people compensating for their time being closeted, but another reason is other people calling them that because of double standards. I myself am very open with my identity, but I don't go around going "dicks, dicks, dicks." (I might be thinking about one of my m/m couples in my stories though :p)
    Another thing that's even clearer, gay sex scenes. The amount of explicitness in gay sex scenes, again the guys especially (stupid lesbian fetishism), is reduced from het scenes usually. Game of Thrones for example, has Renly and Loras, who we never get to see more than shirtless and kissing. There's even a trope name for this pandering; http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButNotTooGay. It's very unfair to expect us to sit through your sex scenes, but our ones, ewwww. That's a double standard and you know it. You also know some of you are doing it because you're actually turned on but too insecure to admit perhaps even to yourself that dicks give you a bigger erection than boobs. (You know who you are you closeted fucks :supermad:)
    Urgh, thank you for your time. Hope you have a good day. :blowkiss::blowkiss:
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  1. KaTrian
    I remember there was a gay character in Warehouse 13, but he was definitely of the gay but not too gay type. I think they did more with H. G. Wells' bisexuality, and she was a much smaller character, so yeah, lesbianism is safer? The most basic explanation could be that straight women aren't that deterred by lesbians while straight men still get so uncomfortable by it the producers think it's best to play it safe and not alienate viewers. I can't remember how it was done in Orphan Black, as Fee was gay and one of the clones was also gay and she started dating some French chick while Fee had at least a couple of flings... In Penny Dreadful you got two guys kissing pretty unabashedly, but for the life of me I can't remember if there were any lesbians and how they were treated in comparison. If you compare the treatment of hetero and gay sexuality in Modern Family, it's pretty clear they're careful with Cameron and Mitch, although some of their friends sometimes make raunchy jokes. If my memory serves, Six Feet Under wasn't skittish, while American Horror Story sort of danced around the gay couple's sex life (there was a gay couple in the first season). I've heard Spartacus is an exception. Lots of sausage, not much taco.

    Then, if you think about the persecution gay men in particular have to deal with all around the world, I'm not surprised the same "fear" is on some level visible in entertainment as well, especially on American TV. It's irrational and definitely hypocritical, imo.

    Considering the majority of people are either straight or bi, the abundance of straight couples on-screen seems justified to me. However, the differences in "quality" shouldn't, imo, be a problem still in 2016. I don't get uncomfortable if a lesbian couple makes out or has sex on-screen, I've seen that a gazillion times, be it in the Game of Thrones or the Orange is the New Black. I'm not a fan, but I don't run away screaming either. Why should we get uncomfortable if it's two men? My guess is a lot if not most straight couples do it "that way" every once in a while anyway, so it's not like the sex itself is somehow wrong or vulgar or unnatural or unacceptable, and couldn't be shown with a similar level of explicitness as straight or lesbian sex.
    KaTrian, Mar 7, 2016
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  2. Oscar Leigh
    Oh, since someone brought me back here (Malisky) I thought I should add @KaTrian bi people are pretty rare too.
    Oscar Leigh, Aug 28, 2016
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