Reply #70: You're just not talking to the right women.

[Plaid Adder]

There is an entire culture out there on the internet catering to the desire of straight and bisexual women to see two hot guys getting it on with each other. It is called "slash," and it is proliferating at an astonishing rate.

The phenomenon used to be limited to scifi fandoms (it began with Star Trek and branched out) but now has expanded to include more general-interest shows like Due South, Friends...I know someone who wrote Sports Night slash, believe it or not. Any show that has more than two hot male characters, and has a sizeable female following, has a slash community out there based around women writing hot 2-guy sex for each other's delectation.

It is true that most of the women who read slash like to have a narrative to go with it. In other words, this hot 2-guy sex has to be contextualized as part of some kind of larger romance--or at least a credible seduction.

Given the existence of this large and extremely excitable (and, frankly, easily pleased) population of 2-guy-lovin' women, why haven't we seen Ricky Martin locking lips with John Mayer? Well, because that would scare the men, and most corporate and advertising types still assume that the men are what's driving the money.

Just cause you don't see it, that don't mean it ain't there,

The Plaid Adder