Long gone are the days when you had to visit your local porn store for a VHS tape concealed in a discreet brown paper bag. There’s endless LGBT porn of every conceivable variety available on the internet now. And then, of course, thanks to Smartphones everyone is a potential porn director. But before you channel your inner Chi Chi La Rue, make sure you’ve got permission to record your partner - and when you break up try and resist broadcasting the footage of your sessions on YouPorn: there are laws against that type of revenge, as tempting as it may be.
No one wants to look at a blank profile on a dating site. And in this age of Smartphones and webcams, there’s no excuse for withholding an image of your face. But then there are the other images. Close-up shots of the schlong. Glimmering glimpses of the twitching starfish. It’s a buyers’ market and many of us want to see what we’re going to get in advance of a hot rendezvous. It’s all about the titillation. And in the 21st century, we’re all amateur porn stars.
Gay people have always had a more relaxed attitude to pornography than heterosexuals. Perhaps it’s to do with people associating porn with secrecy and shame – and the often hidden lives that gays have had to live in the past. And, of course, without sex education in schools it’s often been how we’ve learnt about what to put where. In any case, Gay porn is everywhere now. Stream it online for free, watch it with a lover, tune into some live Cam Sex shows or – best of all in the age of the Smartphone – create your own celluloid masterpiece. The opportunities are endless.