Transsexual pornography
Transsexual pornography
Transsexual/transgender pornography is a genre of pornography.[1][2][3][4] The majority of transgender porn performers are trans women, but some are trans men, such as male performer Buck Angel.[5][6][7] Trans women are most often featured with male partners, but they are also featured with other women, both transgender and cisgender.[8][9][10]
Terminology
It is common in trans porn to use phrases that are generally regarded as pejorative slurs in the trans community, such as "chicks with dicks", "trannies", or "shemales".[11][12][13][14][15] Trans porn performer Wendy Williams said she disagreed with activists who thought these sorts of terms are slurs.[16] In 2017, a major trans porn site changed their name from ShemaleYum to GroobyGirls and announced they would no longer use terms that are seen as stigmatizing.[17]
Awards
Trans women
Data from RedTube, a porn video hosting site, indicated that as of 2016 and based on frequency of online searches transsexual porn was most popular in Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Russia and Spain; the United States ranked at 12th place and within the US transsexual porn searches were most common in Wyoming.[28]
A spokesman for Evil Angel, a US porn production company, was quoted in 2015 as saying transsexual porn was the company's most profitable category, commanding premiums of about 20% more than other genres or scenes.[29]
Transgender pornographic actresses may be either sexually passive or active with their male co-stars. Some actresses, such as Danni Daniels, usually perform as a "top" or specialize in dominant roles.[30]
Trans men
Cyd St. Vincent founded "Bonus Hole Boys" in 2014, the first FTM gay porn company, in order to "show big-name gay porn stars having sex with trans men and loving it." The formula has found a following among both women and gay men, with the majority of the company's fan-base being gay men. The gay male audience for FTM porn has become a growing niche as more gay men become exposed to the genre.[33]
In January 2018, the major gay porn studio Raw Fuck Club (RFC), released a scene starring Cyd St. Vincent titled "Some Men Have Pussies", becoming one of the few major gay porn companies to feature transgender men. The scene was largely popular, but provoked some controversy.[34] Buck Angel's "Cirque Noir" and Cyd St. Vincent's "Some Men Have Pussies" have been praised as "landmark roles" in the representation of trans men in gay porn "whose magnitude cannot be understated."[35]
As of 2019, gay trans man porn is still a relatively niche genre of pornography with few performers, but the market is growing each year as an audience develops for the genre.[36]
Perception
Psychologist David J. Ley wrote that that the popularity of trans porn may have various causes, including sexual fluidity, the novelty factor, and because some trans women act a bit more like men sexually.[37] Author J. Phillips wrote that the "phallic woman...challenges the fixity of our own sexual identity."[38] Neuroscientist Ogi Ogas said that some straight men are interested in porn with trans women because the brain likes "different sexual cues in novel combinations" and that men seem to have a strong interest in penises regardless of sexual orientation.[39]
See also
Attraction to transgender people
Futanari
Transgender sexuality