Quite a lot of hand-wringing these days over why women are so into Heated Rivalry.
The Guardian ran a piece the other day. What could women be getting out of softcore gay porn? Are they confused? Are they horny? (I mean, yes, and yes. Who isn’t?)
Indulging in no hand-wringing over here. To me, the answer’s so obvious.
Why are women into Heated Rivalry, a tale of two beautiful men playing sports and humping in hotel rooms?
Exactly the same reason men are obsessed with lesbians and everything they do.
Because this is not a world to which we have access. It is not a world to which we will ever have access.
And everyone wants to experience the lives they don’t get to live.
Onism is real: everyone wants what they can’t have. (I don’t mean onanism, that is a different thing, though not irrelevant in the context).
Basically? Heated Rivalry is fascinating, in the same way reading and voyeuring the lives of others that we never get to experience is fascinating.
Also it is very, very hot.
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