This Week’s Culture Feast: Film, Music, Art, and TV PicksLevy directed me to her friend Alex (not her real name), who told me why she prefers watching gay male porn rather than straight pornography, or women with women.“I don’t do it, I don’t understand it, but I know so many dykes that watch gay porn,” said Ariel Levy, a writer for The New Yorker who has written on gender and sexuality for the magazine. “Why would a couple of lesbians want to watch us having sex?”Īs it happens, lesbians liking male gay pornography is not an unknown phenomenon. “I was totally confused,” said a gay man after seeing the film.
