I haven't really been following the video porn market but am interested in the subject of queer pornography more generally from, again, the indie side of things, since I've been quite personally invested in fanfic and comic porn. It's a market that is much easier for the individual to produce as it doesn't require access to camera gear and actors. Much like the indie queer porn scene there seems to be a lot more tolerance for boundary crossing and pansexual free-for-alls in sites like Slipshine and collections like the Iron Circus Comics "Smut Peddler" anthologies, though you will still find other strong category divisions in places you wouldn't necessarily expect. Fan fiction has traditionally had a very strong "het VERSUS slash" division and you still find people arguing in this decade that adding a woman to a slash (gay male romance by default) pairing is somehow ruining gay representation with her fearful woman touch.
Most of what I remember about bisexual pornography in the more mainstream industry spaces was the huge argument about condom requirements vs. HIV testing requirements, how gay porn tended at one point toward requiring condoms for all actors and no testing versus heterosexual porn tending toward testing with no condoms and refusal of work for anyone with a positive test. The split in approach meant that men who mostly worked in the gay space could be stealth about a positive HIV test and still get work but it meant there was a resistance toward crossing over to work in het porn (which at the time paid better, IIRC?) and there was some concern that requiring condoms would mean that a performer was then protected from having to reveal their HIV status which the performers in the mainstream het space didn't like. I have no idea if this argument is still going on now that PrEP has changed the transmission question but it was a big part of the conversation in the oughts.
It seems to me that the dynamic of bi porn is quite similar if not the same as hetero, mainstream porn. I find myself often thinking of what porn would look like if I could write and direct porn suited to my own tastes vs. trying to chase the tastes of an amorphous slice of people, whatever their proclivities.
I have always felt that much of the bi male porn out there does a great disservice to bisexuals in general and bi males in particular largely due to the trope of male/male sex being a byproduct (pun intended) of a MMF threesome. Even worse, there is quite a bit of bi male porn in which the set-up is a male being "tricked" into m/m sex. YUCK.
I find women beautiful and/or cute and very often sexy. I find some men handsome and/or cute, and sometimes very sexy. I like all the sexy bits, male or female. Those thoughts can stand alone. They don't need any set-up or trickery.
I think its sort of interesting that bi porn (porn with bi men) is an offshoot of the gay male porn industry when there's definitely biphobia against bisexual male performers in the monosexual gay male porn industry even if they're only in gay porn. I remember this gay for pay performer I followed for several years came out as bi and got a lot of backlash.
I think there's a nice revolution in trans friendly porn for sites like crash pad and four chambered heart. It's not specifically bi porn, but there are some pairings with cis men that don't have the vibe you're talking about.
I haven't really been following the video porn market but am interested in the subject of queer pornography more generally from, again, the indie side of things, since I've been quite personally invested in fanfic and comic porn. It's a market that is much easier for the individual to produce as it doesn't require access to camera gear and actors. Much like the indie queer porn scene there seems to be a lot more tolerance for boundary crossing and pansexual free-for-alls in sites like Slipshine and collections like the Iron Circus Comics "Smut Peddler" anthologies, though you will still find other strong category divisions in places you wouldn't necessarily expect. Fan fiction has traditionally had a very strong "het VERSUS slash" division and you still find people arguing in this decade that adding a woman to a slash (gay male romance by default) pairing is somehow ruining gay representation with her fearful woman touch.
Most of what I remember about bisexual pornography in the more mainstream industry spaces was the huge argument about condom requirements vs. HIV testing requirements, how gay porn tended at one point toward requiring condoms for all actors and no testing versus heterosexual porn tending toward testing with no condoms and refusal of work for anyone with a positive test. The split in approach meant that men who mostly worked in the gay space could be stealth about a positive HIV test and still get work but it meant there was a resistance toward crossing over to work in het porn (which at the time paid better, IIRC?) and there was some concern that requiring condoms would mean that a performer was then protected from having to reveal their HIV status which the performers in the mainstream het space didn't like. I have no idea if this argument is still going on now that PrEP has changed the transmission question but it was a big part of the conversation in the oughts.
It seems to me that the dynamic of bi porn is quite similar if not the same as hetero, mainstream porn. I find myself often thinking of what porn would look like if I could write and direct porn suited to my own tastes vs. trying to chase the tastes of an amorphous slice of people, whatever their proclivities.
I have always felt that much of the bi male porn out there does a great disservice to bisexuals in general and bi males in particular largely due to the trope of male/male sex being a byproduct (pun intended) of a MMF threesome. Even worse, there is quite a bit of bi male porn in which the set-up is a male being "tricked" into m/m sex. YUCK.
I find women beautiful and/or cute and very often sexy. I find some men handsome and/or cute, and sometimes very sexy. I like all the sexy bits, male or female. Those thoughts can stand alone. They don't need any set-up or trickery.
I think its sort of interesting that bi porn (porn with bi men) is an offshoot of the gay male porn industry when there's definitely biphobia against bisexual male performers in the monosexual gay male porn industry even if they're only in gay porn. I remember this gay for pay performer I followed for several years came out as bi and got a lot of backlash.
I think there's a nice revolution in trans friendly porn for sites like crash pad and four chambered heart. It's not specifically bi porn, but there are some pairings with cis men that don't have the vibe you're talking about.
Lol I’m friends with the people who run Crash Pad; that’s what I’m talking about when I say queer porn. They’re great.