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BoysDo vs OnlyFans: Discovery vs. the Paywall
Helix Studios: The Twink Canon
The twink — slender, youthful, smooth-bodied, often with a boyish quality that sits at the edge of adult without crossing it — is one of the most pers...
Midnight Cowboy (1969): The Love Story Hollywood Didn't Know It Was Making
Midnight Cowboy won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1970. It was rated X at the time of its release — the only X-rated film ever to win the Os...
Disruptive Films: The New Standard
The name is a statement of intent. Disruptive Films was founded with an explicit mandate to disrupt — to challenge the production norms of gay adult c...
BoysDo vs Scruff for Relationships: The Limits of the Tribes Vocabulary
Softcore vs Pornography: Where the Line Is and Why It Moves
The word "softcore" arrived in the cultural vocabulary as a rating category — a way of describing adult content that stopped short of explicit sexual...
Wolfgang Tillmans: Intimacy as Practice
Wolfgang Tillmans does not make his images look like art. This is the most deliberate thing about them. A Tillmans photograph might be a man's torso...
Softcore vs Erotic Photography: The Same Thing, or Something Different?
Softcore and erotic photography are often used as synonyms. They are not quite the same thing, and understanding the difference — or rather, understan...
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...
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985): Desire in Thatcher's England
My Beautiful Laundrette was made for television. Channel 4 commissioned it, Hanif Kureishi wrote it in six weeks, Stephen Frears shot it in six week...