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BoysDo vs Hornet for Relationships: Editorial Content Is Not the Same as Shared Sensibility
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BoysDo vs Hornet for Relationships: Editorial Content Is Not the Same as Shared Sensibility

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Pride Studios: The Studio That Took the Word Seriously
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Pride Studios: The Studio That Took the Word Seriously

For most of its history, the gay adult industry has been built around one body. White, smooth, gym-built, between twenty-two and twenty-eight. Falcon...

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Amateur vs Professional Erotic Photography: Craft, Authenticity, and the Space Between
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Amateur vs Professional Erotic Photography: Craft, Authenticity, and the Space Between

The internet democratised photography in ways that nobody fully anticipated. The barrier between taking a photograph and sharing it with the world col...

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Drummer: The Leather Canon
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Drummer: The Leather Canon

Drummer was different from every other gay magazine of its era, and the difference was not simply its content. It was gay-owned, gay-edited, and pro...

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BoysDo vs Reddit: The Subreddit Archipelago vs. an Actual Feed
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BoysDo vs Reddit: The Subreddit Archipelago vs. an Actual Feed

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Why Tumblr Banned Erotic Content — and What It Cost Everyone
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Why Tumblr Banned Erotic Content — and What It Cost Everyone

On December 17, 2018, Tumblr destroyed something that had taken a decade to build. With a single policy update — a blanket ban on all adult content,...

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BoysDo vs FetLife: The Kink Network and the Art-Erotic Feed
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BoysDo vs FetLife: The Kink Network and the Art-Erotic Feed

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The Studios That Built Gay Porn: A Cultural History
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The Studios That Built Gay Porn: A Cultural History

Gay pornography has a history. Not a shameful one, not a footnote to real culture, but a genuine history — of studios founded by gay men who saw a mar...

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Next Door Studios: The Network Era
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Next Door Studios: The Network Era

If Falcon represents the studio era of gay pornography — a single brand, a singular aesthetic, a founder's vision expressed through decades of consist...

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Falcon Entertainment: The Studio That Started It All
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Falcon Entertainment: The Studio That Started It All

In 1971, a man named Chuck Holmes rented a small space in San Francisco, bought a camera, and began making gay pornographic films with a level of prod...

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BoysDo vs OnlyFans: Discovery vs. the Paywall
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BoysDo vs OnlyFans: Discovery vs. the Paywall

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BoysDo vs Grindr: Two Different Things Both Called "Gay Photography"
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BoysDo vs Grindr: Two Different Things Both Called "Gay Photography"

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