LGBTQ+ Landscape

BoysDo vs xVideos: The World's Most Visited Adult Site vs. the Platform That Understands Gay Desire

Gay Erotic Photography vs Straight Erotic Photography: The Gaze Makes the Image

The history of erotic photography is, in the vast majority of its canonical examples, a history of men photographing women. The gaze is male; the subj...

BoysDo vs xHamster: Artistic Gay Content vs. the Aggregator Model

Erotic Photography vs Erotic Film: Why the Still Image Wins

Video has won. By almost every metric of consumption, attention, and platform dominance, moving images have defeated still images in the competition f...

BoysDo vs Tumblr: The Platform That Gay Erotic Art Lost — and the One That Replaced It

Erotic Art vs Erotic Photography: The Lens and the Hand

Tom of Finland drew men who did not exist. Robert Mapplethorpe photographed men who did. Both produced images of the male body with erotic intent, bot...

BoysDo vs Reddit: Deep Libraries vs. a Platform With an Actual Eye

BoysDo vs Flickr: The Photography Archive vs. the Living Feed of Gay Erotic Art

BoysDo vs OnlyFans: Discovery vs. Subscription — Where Artistic Gay Erotic Content Belongs

BoysDo vs Grindr: Cruising App vs. Gay Erotic Art Platform — Two Very Different Kinds of Looking

BoysDo vs Scruff: Beyond the Dating App — Where Gay Erotic Photography Finds Its Real Audience

BoysDo vs MeWe: Privacy-First Social Network vs. a Platform Built for Gay Erotic Art