When Did Women Get Turned On By Gay Male Porn?
Did women used to fantasize about Huckleberry Finn and Jim sodomizing? Really?
From the New York Times:
She Put the Heat in ‘Heated Rivalry’
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid’s romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
By Angelina Mazza
Dec. 19, 2025
Rachel Reid braced herself for “Heated Rivalry” to be a punchline.
Her 2019 novel, about a secret romance between closeted rival hockey players, was being adapted for television by the Canadian writer and director Jacob Tierney. …
“Heated Rivalry” has become a breakout hit, not just in Reid’s home country but also in the United States, where HBO swiftly acquired the rights. Since its Nov. 28 debut, fans have gone back to devour the books — “Heated Rivalry” is the second of six steamy romances in Reid’s Game Changers series — outpacing supply and forcing Harlequin, the publisher, to play catch-up. …
Last week, “Heated Rivalry,” along with several of Reid’s other novels, made the New York Times best-seller list. …
That was before fans on social media and beyond obsessed over the rivals-to-lovers story of Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, the captains of the Montreal and Boston hockey teams, whose clandestine hookups unfold over a period of eight years. The show has become especially notable for its unusually explicit, carefully choreographed sex scenes.
Years ago, Reid, 45, said she explained to her children that hitting the Times list was unlikely, especially since her early books rarely appeared in brick-and-mortar stores. “It’s been surreal,” she said. “I feel very, very lucky.”
When did heterosexual women start getting all het up over soft core gay male porn in a romance context?
Apparently, some women were circulating Star Trek “slash” fan fiction about Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock getting it on in the 1970s. And around the same time the Japanese, as usual, were right there near the lead in innovating new forms of degeneracy.
But it’s remarkable that here’s something that doesn’t seem to have ever existed before, say, the late 1960s.
Since then there has been a lot of research done in private diaries and letters by Studies departments, often trying to prove that every famous woman of the past was a lesbian, but also looking for other weird sexual phenomena like this.
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