![]() "I feel more comfortable being attracted to gay masculinity than straight masculinity," she continues. "I imagine gay men smell better, or at least the gay men I like. More androgynous and boyish, yet still somewhat muscular."įor a teen girl, in Russia at least, part of the allure of two nice-smelling men getting intimate with each other is tied to the imagery's illicitness. Gay porn is coded with the coolness of youthful contrarianism. On the Russian social network VK, which operates like a a Tumblr–Facebook hybrid, the blog No Hope Kids pastiches signifiers of hip (dip–dyed hair and vague rejections of capitalism) with pictures of lip–locked men who have what Anastasia refers to as a " post-Soviet look." The blog is careful to display an "18+" disclaimer. Thanks to the 2013 Russian law forbidding "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors," anyone accused of even creating " an interest in nontraditional sexual relations" could have to pay a fine. "Trendy Russian girls aren't really interested in straight men," Anastasia says, noting Russia's dominant cult of masculinity.
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