The Bisexualizing Effect of Erotica

Our enjoyment of erotic or pornographic images may start with the simple desire to see naked people. However, before long, poses of even the most beautiful woman or the handsomest men becomes relatively boring. Where singles may be sufficient, as it were, to whet our appetites, we soon want to see couples, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or transsexual, coupling.

In a similar vein, regardless of our own sex, gender, and orientation, sooner or later, we want to see couples--or even groups--of the opposite (and of the third) sex coupling with one another. The viewing of erotica and of pornography, sooner or later, makes bisexuals of us all. Therefore, show me a habitué of an adult bookstore, and I will show you either a bisexual or a bisexual in the making. Those who deny this simply haven't viewed enough of such materials.

Why is this? For me, it is a simple enough matter. Viewing heterosexual couples, coupling or otherwise together, is the starting point for almost everyone, regardless of his or her own eventual and ultimate sexual preference and orientation. Most men and women do not know that they are homosexual or transgender until they are adolescents or older. Therefore, they often assume, until they learn to the contrary, that, "like everyone else," they are straight, not gay, and their earliest exposure to erotica or pornography is apt to be an exposure to the heterosexual variety, which, by definition, features two sexes and two genders: male and female, masculine and feminine.

This twofold display allows viewers--or voyeurs--to identify now as the male-masculine participant and now as the female-feminine participant. This ability to identify with first one and then the other partner establishes the basis for a dual, or bisexual, appreciation of the sexual acts that the couple is portrayed as performing. Therefore, by nature, all erotic or pornographic art, and perhaps especially the visual kind, is of a bisexual nature.

For example, in watching a kneeling blonde suck a man's cock, the viewer can identify either with the cock sucking woman or with the man whose cock is being sucked, and this identification with either party is possible whether the viewer is him- or herself male or female.