Up this week on WHACK! Magazine, my review of FUCKSTYLES, the newest amazing thing from Courtney Trouble and Tina Horn:
FUCKSTYLES of the Queer and Famous — “By the time [your brain’s] gotten comfortable, you’ve already taken your pants off!”  
Directed by Courtney Trouble and Tina Horn
STYLISH FUCKERS Arabelle Raphael, Jiz Lee, Wolf Hudson, James  Darling, Papi Coxxx, Jolene Parton, April Flroes, Sophia St. James, Maya  Mayhem, Max Wellander, Varina Adams, Tobi Hill-Meyer
Queer porn is awesome. I know you all know how I feel about it, but I think I realized one of the main reasons why I feel that way as I watched Trouble Films’ newest release, Fuckstyles, which drops today (and yes, that is romantic).  Not only is this movie filmed beautifully with lots of natural light  and attention to detail and incredibly hot, juicy sex between partners  so fucking into each other that sometimes they don’t want to open up for the camera at all, but also because this movie gets your brain and your  boner going. I love it, and other porn like it, because you have to pay  attention for at least a little while. There is no niche, no neat  little category, that can tell you what’s going in any of the scenes  here. This is not “tranny” porn or “lesbian” porn or “gay” porn or  “straight” porn or any combo, really, of those easy compartments. Oh,  no. In queer porn, there are no givens, and there are no niches. You  can’t make assumptions about any person you see, because each person has  their own distinct way of identifying, behaving, sucking, fucking,  licking, and cumming, and many of them don’t match up directly with what  you’d think when you see that person on the screen for the first time.
For instance, watching Maya Mayhem and Tobi Hill-Meyer go at it, it  might take a few minutes of adjustment for many of us. They are both  trans women who have not opted for bottom surgery, yet they use a  strap-on when they go at it. Tobi wears it over her panties for about  half the scene. This takes a few moment to process in your mind, before —  whether you’re into what they’re doing or not — you have to admit that  they are loving it and it’s pretty hot. And when April Flores  goes solo with a large black dildo, there’s nothing typical about her  masturbation — this one takes some time and some thought. Likewise,  James Darling, a trans man, and Wolf Hudson, a biological man, go at it,  by the time you’ve caught up with the bodies you’re dealing with,  you’re far too deep into a searingly, sizzlingly,  my-eyeballs-might-pop-out-of-my-head-if-I-don’t-touch-myself scene. It’s  almost a trap: your brain has to get into the action and by the time  it’s gotten comfortable, you’ve already taken your pants off without  realizing it.
The point here is that you have to watch carefully for at least a  little while to “figure out” what’s going on in many of these cases. Who  is topping, who is bottoming, and whether this is working or not for  you. (Certainly not everyone will enjoy a trans-man and cis-man scene  any more than everyone will enjoy a scene with two femme lesbians, for  instance.) But in queer porn, it’s harder to get an instant read than it  is for a standard boy/girl scene from, say, Vivid. And that’s awesome because it makes you pay attention.
And that’s the beauty of it. Realizing that I had to focus on the  people in queer porn made me realize one of the things that’s most  disturbing about porn and often with the way we approach sex: we  sometimes do treat people’s bodies like they’re a given. Like we  know everything there is to know about the people we’re watching or  fucking because they’re doing what we expect with bodies that are  predictable. But in reality, it’s never a given. You can look at  someone who identifies with their birth gender and every single societal  norm dictating the expression of that gender and its attendant  sexuality, but you cannot know anything about that person just from glancing at a box cover. We all have  our secrets, our backgrounds, our fetishes, our own little tics that  make us the interesting and sexy creatures we are, but in most porn  those differences can get ironed out. We assume we already know  everything we need to know about a person when we see whether they have a  cock or not, and so on. But that’s ridiculous. We need to pay attention to everyone,  not just queer people whose bodies and sex look different enough that  we have to spend a little time thinking to come to a small understanding  of who they are. But in queer porn, those differences and nuances are  simply on display. They are not feared or squashed or shoved under any  rug — they are flown high, like sails on the queer pirate ship, and they  are fascinating and sexy because they are not just bodies. The  bodies they have bring some of their stories with them, and they become  interesting and much, much sexier because of that interest. I can’t get  enough.
—Miss Lagsalot
 
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