Transgender pornography is a genre of pornography featuring transsexual or transgender actors. [1] [2] [3] The majority of the genre features trans women, but trans men are sometimes featured. [1] Trans women are most often featured with male partners, but they are also featured with other women, both transgender and cisgender. [4] [ page needed ] [5] [6] [ page needed ]
In the 2010s, it was common in transgender pornography to use terms that are generally regarded as pejorative slurs in the trans community, such as "chicks with dicks", "trannies", or "shemales". [7] [8] [9] Transgender pornographic actress Wendy Williams said she disagreed with activists who thought these sorts of terms are slurs, as these words were originally "used so the laymen person could understand the products they were buying in porn". [10] In 2017, a major trans porn site changed their name from ShemaleYum to GroobyGirls and announced they would no longer use terms that are seen as stigmatizing. [11]
Trans women in pornography are sometimes called "tgirls", the t standing for transgender or transsexual. [8]
AVN Award for Transgender Performer of the Year is one of the major industry awards for actors in the genre. [12] [13] Transgender Erotica Awards (formerly Tranny Awards) is the other major award. [14] [15]
Viewers of pornography featuring trans women typically identify as heterosexual. [16] [17] Transgender porn has become one of the largest, most popular genres of porn among heterosexual males. [17] [18] [19]
Data from RedTube, a pornographic video hosting site, indicated that as of 2016 and based on the frequency of online searches trans porn was most popular in Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Russia and Spain; the United States ranked at 12th place and within the US trans porn searches were most common in Wyoming. [20]
A spokesman for Evil Angel, a US porn production company, was quoted in 2015 as saying trans porn was the company's most profitable category, commanding premiums of about 20% more than other genres or scenes. [21]
Trans pornographic actresses may be either sexually passive or active with their male co-stars. Some actresses, such as Danni Daniels, usually perform as a "top" or specialize in dominant roles. [22]
In 2005, Titan Media released a film titled Cirque Noir starring Buck Angel, marking the first time a trans man had been featured in an all-male film produced by a company specializing in gay male porn. [23] [24]
Cyd St. Vincent founded "Bonus Hole Boys" in 2014, the first FTM gay porn company, in order to "show big-name gay porn stars having sex with trans men and loving it." The formula has found a following among both women and gay men, with the majority of the company's fan-base being gay men. The gay male audience for FTM porn has become a growing niche as more gay men become exposed to the genre. [25]
In January 2018, the major gay porn studio Raw Fuck Club (RFC), released a scene starring Cyd St. Vincent titled "Some Men Have Pussies", becoming one of the few major gay porn companies to feature transgender men. The scene was largely popular, but provoked some controversy. [26] Buck Angel's "Cirque Noir" and Cyd St. Vincent's "Some Men Have Pussies" have been praised as "landmark roles" in the representation of trans men in gay porn "whose magnitude cannot be understated." [27]
As of 2019, gay trans man porn is still a relatively niche genre of pornography with few performers, but the market is growing each year as an audience develops for the genre. [28]
Psychologist David J. Ley wrote that the popularity of transgender porn may have various causes, including sexual fluidity and its novelty factor. [29] Author J. Phillips wrote that the "phallic woman...challenges the fixity of our own sexual identity." [30] Neuroscientist Ogi Ogas said that some straight men are interested in porn with trans women because the brain likes "different sexual cues in novel combinations" and that men seem to have a strong interest in penises regardless of sexual orientation. [31]
Some in the LGBT community feel transgender pornography objectifies transgender people. [32] [33] Others argue it can have positive effects. Trans actor Buck Angel said "I get letters daily from people thanking me about making them feel better about their bodies." [10]
Shemale is a term most commonly used in the pornography industry to describe trans women or other people with male genitalia and female secondary sex characteristics acquired via hormones or surgery. Many people in the transgender community consider the term offensive and degrading. Using the term shemale for a trans woman may imply that she is working in the sex trade.
A trans man is a man who was assigned female at birth. Trans men have a male gender identity, and many trans men undergo medical and social transition to alter their appearance in a way that aligns with their gender identity or alleviates gender dysphoria.
The AVN Awards are film awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine AVN to recognize achievement in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic films. They are often called the "Oscars of porn".
Sexual attraction to transgender people has been the subject of scientific study and social commentary. Psychologists have researched sexual attraction toward trans women, trans men, cross dressers, non-binary people, and a combination of these. Publications in the field of transgender studies have investigated the attraction transgender individuals can feel for each other. The people who feel this attraction to transgender people name their attraction in different ways.
Titan Media is an independent San Francisco–based gay pornographic studio founded by director and cinematographer Bruce Cam and Robert Kirsch (1961–2001) in 1995.
Evil Angel is an American independent production company and distributor of pornographic films, founded and owned by John Stagliano.
A transgender person is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Grooby Productions is a company founded in London, England in 1996 and operationally based in Los Angeles, California, that produces transgender online adult entertainment. It established itself as one of the pioneer companies of online adult transgender entertainment with its website Grooby Girls, "the first transsexual pay site with original content". The company owns a number of transgender adult websites, produces its own DVD line, and has other interests in forums, blogs and social networking in the transsexual niche genre including the Transgender Erotica Awards.
Buck Angel is an American sex educator and former pornographic film actor and producer. He founded the media production company Buck Angel Entertainment. Angel is a transsexual man. He currently works as an advocate and educator. Angel served on the board of directors of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation from 2010 to 2016. The Foundation works to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right through advocacy and education.
Bailey Jay is an American transgender pornographic actress, adult model, presenter and podcaster.
Jiz Lee is an American pornographic performer, considered a major star of queer porn. Lee is an advocate for the ethical production and consumption of pornography and for the labor rights and sexual autonomy of adult entertainment performers.
Venus Lux is an American transgender pornographic actress, director, producer, and educator.
Transgender Erotica Awards, originally known as The Tranny Awards, are a group of movie awards presented annually in the United States recognizing performances and performers in the field of transgender pornography, with an emphasis on erotic photography and pornographic movies. Organized by adult industry production company Grooby Productions, the awards were first given in 2009. Citing a poor representation of transgender performers and producers in mainstream adult awards ceremonies, the Transgender Erotica Awards were created to recognize achievement in the transgender adult industry.
Men.com is a producer of gay internet pornography content. It is owned by Aylo.
The 1st Annual Tranny Awards were a pornographic awards event recognizing the best in transgender pornography form the previous year from November 1, 2007 to 31 October 2008. Nominations were announced online on December 16, 2008 on Grooby.com. The winners were announced online on January 9, 2009. The winners were decided by a panel of industry judges. It was the first installment of the Tranny Awards which are now known as the Transgender Erotica Awards.
The 2nd Annual Tranny Awards was a pornographic awards event recognizing the best in transgender pornography form the previous year from November 1, 2008 to 31 October 2009. Nominations were announced online in December, 2009 online at trannyawards.com. The winners were announced online on January 9, 2010. The winners were decided by a panel of industry judges.
The 3rd Annual Tranny Awards was a pornographic awards event recognizing the best in transgender pornography form the previous year from November 1, 2009, to 31 October 2010. The nominees for the 3rd Tranny Awards were announced on January 9, 2011, online on the trannyawards.com website. The winners were announced during the awards on February 5, 2011.
The 4th Annual Tranny Awards was a pornographic awards event recognizing the best in transgender pornography form the previous year from November 1, 2010, to 31 October 2011. December 12, 2011, online on the trannyawards.com website. The winners were announced during the awards on February 19, 2012.
The AVN Award for Transgender Performer of the Year is presented every January in Las Vegas, Nevada at the AVN Awards ceremony. It represents the transgender pornographic film performer who has had the best body of work in the previous year. It has been given annually since 2004.
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