Not your grandfather’s content-hosting fan site Full-time electrician McCleod plans to use the money he earns from his OnlyFans account for his young son’s future. These young men acknowledge that there’s a certain stigma of appealing to a gay audience as a straight man. Some people online question their sexuality or hurl homophobic slurs. These men also use their personal social media accounts to promote themselves, allowing friends & family to see some thirsty content.īut it’s not a big deal. Carter told Dazed magazine his former worldview as a “lad” was that he always had to be “hard as nails”. John Mercer, a professor of gender & sexuality at Birmingham City University, explained the increased security as: “Many younger men have been raised in a cultural and educational context in which homophobia is not tolerated so the fear of gayness as the other is at a commonplace level, less prevalent.” While he knows that even ten years ago no heterosexual man would have marketed himself on social media to gay men, he also believes that the overblown, macho insecurity is changing and that new expressions of heterosexuality are emerging. The biggest fear many straight men would be thought to have is the implication that performing for a gay audience would make them gay. Yet, these men view their explicit videos & pictures as simple business transactions, serving their customers what they want. They really aren’t too bothered by any stray homophobic comments since they’re secure in the fact that they’re straight.
Carter summed it up by saying, “I don’t need to prove anything to anyone. This new movement of heterosexuality moves away from the ultra-fragile masculinity that dictates that anything even remotely perceived to be gay impugns one’s identity as a straight man. Hopefully, these more secure expressions of sexuality will make fragile masculinity a thing of the past. Yule sums up his experience as, “If someone’s going to get on at me and say ‘that’s gay as fuck’, what are you doing? I don’t care, it’s done.As with anything on Reddit, it's hard to know exactly how it all started.