What Box Are You In?
If you like porn then chances are you’ve gone to a free porn site, like Pornotube or Xtube to watch some free clips of people fucking. I have because it’s my job and because I like to watch people having sex. However, at the enter page of these sites and many other VOD sites you are given two choices of the type of content you want to see: Straight or Gay. Some sites give you the option to choose both, but what if your choice is Neither?
As time goes on and I watch more and more porn, including man/woman cock action and man/man cock action, I’m realizing that I don’t really like watching cock. I am a dyke afterall so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. I want to see dyke porn. I want to see silicone cocks, smooth bodies, breasts, curves, muscles, WOMEN. As most of you know the most common female porn is “lesbian” porn. This is NOT the same as “dyke” porn. Most likely the women are straight or maybe bi, but it doesn’t even matter what their sexuality is because the content is essentially the same: conventionally beautiful feminine women acting like their having sex, but paying more attention to the “watcher” than to each other. But, here’s the funny part. If I want to watch “lesbian” porn I need to click on the category STRAIGHT. How did lesbian porn ever get the label, straight?
That’s not a difficult question to answer. Lesbian porn has and is created for straight men. Okay, I can accept that. But if lesbian porn is considered “straight” then the porn that I create should not be in that category. I make dyke porn. The scenes feature women (mostly) who are fucking other women (mostly). There is nothing straight about it. Even when we shot a scene between a man and a woman it was the queerest piece of work we’d done to date.
So, does the categorization apply to WHO is watching it? Not likely, I don’t think transsexuals are the predominant viewers of “tranny porn” or mothers watching “milf porn”. Categories describe the content. Lesbian porn does not describe the content of what we are creating at GoodDykePorn.com. What does? What box can we put this content into?
Dykes are notorious for fighting to break down labels and embrace the fluidity of sexual and gender identity. But we need a label to identify ourselves and the sexually graphic images we create or else other people will do it for us. And as it stands the category we’re being put into is STRAIGHT. That is so wrong.
But what about the women that don’t identify as dyke or even female? How do they fit in to the dyke category? I’m of the opinion that the category “dyke” includes more than just self-identified dyke women. It also includes transguys, femme dykes, butch lesbians, queers, bisexuals and many other varieties.
Queer porn is the other up and coming category for the type of porn that is being made these days. Sites like Crash Pad Series and No Fauxxx identify as queer porn and of course, Buck Angel (although, he identifies specifically as FtM porn). Perhaps instead of having a main category as STRAIGHT with a sub-category LESBIAN, we can have a main category QUEER with subcategories of FtM, DYKE, GAY (google queer porn and you’ll find mostly gay porn sites), and many other people and sexual preferences that don’t fit into “straight” or “gay”. The funny thing is that Good Dyke Porn™ doesn’t seem to be queer enough to fit into the Queer category at HotMoviesForHer. In this context queer only applies to transsexual/transgender porn.
I want to see the DYKE category because this is a category that is female-centric. The content does include transgender guys and even a bio-guy, but when you’re looking for women then you know you’re going to find them in dyke porn. The beauty of female-centric anything is that it’s highly inclusive. There will always be a variety of sexual and gender varieties in dyke porn, but first and foremost you will find dykes. Come on people, dykes are huge segment of society. We are women who love other women and we exist in every corner of this planet. At times we fluidly shift our gender identity and always love and embrace our community’s choices, but we need to claim our place in this world. We need an address so you can find us. We need to fill the box with content that we actually enjoy watching. Give that box a name.
Call my box DYKE!

Follow me on my journey as I figure it all out.


November 4th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Great piece, Bren.
I’m going to look into this a little. This is one of the hardest things we have to do, because we want everyone to be able to find what they’re looking for easily.
You’ll notice we do make a distinction between “lesbian” and “all-girl” on hotmoviesforher. com
Anyways, thanks for getting me thinking about this again.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
“Real Lesbian” porn also helps to distinguish the girl-on-girl stuff from the dyke stuff. HotMoviesForHer.com is one of the best sites for providing great content in appropriate categories.
I personally prefer different words rather than qualifying adjectives.
It’s always the good ones that do the most work in changing our world. Keep up the great work!
As you mention, Porn Librarian, it’s something to think about.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Great post, Bren. I do go to xtube a lot, and I like the guy-on-guy stuff, my inner faggot gets off on it, but I don’t even bother watching what they call ‘lesbian’ for the same reasons. I like using the term Dyke to describe what you and others are producing that involves real dykes in sexual situations. I would group that under Queer as a sub-category, but that’s just me.
Thanks for getting my brain thinking this morning!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Thanks for your perspective, Kyle. I, too, prefer the guy-on-guy stuff compared to guy-on-girl because the women mostly appear to be pretending to enjoy it and sometimes can’t act well enough and are visibly uncomfortable. Very icky.
Queer as it stands right now does describe a lot of different types of people so why not a variety of sexual situations, right? I think Queer umbrella with Dyke sub-category makes a lot of sense.
The thing that doesn’t work is incorporating this idea into the mainstream. “We” (us queers) seem to have to cut ourselves off from the mainstream in order to create the space the way we like it.
November 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
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December 2nd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Hey Bren,
Great piece, I ran across it while linking up my blog. I just wanted to say that I do not just specifically identify my films as “ftm porn” I would say they are more “gay mens porn” because gay men are the number one consumers of my work and that I do not identify as “FTM” but more as a “Man with a Pussy”. I know some of my tags say FTM porn but that is more for search engine traffic and to help people understand what they are seeing.:)
Hope all is well with you!
WOOF!!
Buck Angel
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Thanks for the clarification, Buck.
I was thinking about how your work is more “gay porn” than anything else when I was writing that article, but it seemed too complicated to get into.
Do you identify with “queer porn”?
You’re an inspiration. Take care.
love,
Bren