Just a decade ago it was often touted as conventional wisdom that women weren’t able to be aroused…

Just a decade ago it was often touted as conventional wisdom that women weren’t able to be aroused just by visuals. But not only are women now also apt to objectify men, they’re objectifying multiple men in the way men have objectified women in porn forever: by watching them kiss. (On her blog, Carter said that she’d “definitely be down” to do an MMF scene in which the guys are both bi.) Gay porn has done forever what straight porn is just starting to do: treat men like visual sex objects. St. James likes to show both performers’ faces equally, instead of cutting off the men’s heads, a common practice in straight porn. St. James is interested in “the relationship, the expression on the guy’s face when he’s getting a blowjob. I do think it’s more of a female thing to focus on the whole story and the whole picture.” I think about how emotion flickers subtly across faces in movies like John Cassavetes’s Faces and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc — my favorite movies.