Ask the Sexpert: (Real) lesbian porn

Dear Shanna –

I really want to find some hot porn to watch with my girlfriend, but she says there’s no such thing as porn made for lesbians and queer folk and “gay for pay” lesbian porn just doesn’t turn her on. Please tell me there is an answer that will allow us both to be happy and horny?

Questing for Queer Porn in Aurora

Hello Questing for Queer Porn;

I have good news for you — there is such a thing as queer porn. I’m not referring to hot and chiseled men with oiled up bodies getting, nor the “lesbian” porn for heterosexual men — tapping genitals with 2-inch fingernails doesn’t do it for me either. I’m talking about authentic queer porn that represents real life lesbians, bisexual women and queer folks of all gender presentations and identities doing it the way that they actually enjoy.

The queer porn revolution started in the early 2000s with a website called NoFauxxx.com (since changed to IndiePornRevolution.com). Run by Courtney Trouble, a queer femme with curves for days, the site has photo galleries and videos of LGBTQ people from across the country (and the world). Its launch was revolutionary since much of mainstream porn caters to a hetero–focused niche, choosing who performers partner with and paying based on what acts they’re willing to perform. Fatale Media has featured real–life lesbians, bisexual women and queer people in such films as Full Load, Safe is Desire and Suburban Dykes. They were one of the first companies to put out videos and eventually DVDs that appealed to a demographic of not–straight–men.

More recently, queer porn has come into its own. Pink and White productions has put out a few great feature–length films (The Wild Search, Superfreak and  Champion) and also runs an amazing website, CrashPadSeries.com, featuring mostly queer women, gender queer folks, trans men and trans women doing what feels good to them. You will see stars of all shapes, sizes, races, ability levels, hair colors, tattoos and more, plus real sex toys up the wazoo, lube, authentic pleasure and orgasms. They shoot in San Francisco with people from around the country, and you might spot hotties from Denver there!

Other companies working to produce porn that is hot for queer, lesbian and bi women audiences: GoodDykePorn.com out of Canada has hot vignettes on their site and movies for sale. Reel Queer Pictures by Good Vibrations released a line of hot films starting queer folks from all over the U.S. and Canada, included feature films like Bordello, Roulette and Billy Castro Does the Mission, as well as films that straddle the line between straight and queer, like the Seven Minutes in Heaven series, which uses lesbian, bi and queer stars, but is geared towards all types of people, rather than just queer ones. Courtney Trouble has now started Trouble Films and is putting out films like Lesbian Curves (1 and 2) starring plus size queer women. Philly Films and Juicy Pink Box tend to start more socially beautiful (read: slimmer, feminine, etc) women, but again, use only stars that actually identify as queer, lesbian and bisexual.

You can check out most of these websites to get started, or buy the DVDs online. However, if you would rather just taste a little of each first to see what both of you like, HotMoviesForHer.com is a pay–per–minute online viewing site where you can see many of these studios’ film, and only pay for the minute you watch. Additionally, they have queer women on staff, so their “queer” theater features legitimately queer films, and not just what your girlfriend feels are gay–for–pay.

Enjoy your queer porn adventure!

Shanna