Bisexual pornography

Kenneth Tynan documents many examples, including the French The Chiropodist from the 1920s and the American A Stiff Game (which features a rare interracial male-male pairing).

Paul Norman was one of the earliest directors to gain a reputation for creating bisexual films, with his "Bi and Beyond" series debuting in 1988.

[1] Content featuring male bisexuality has been a growing trend since the advent of internet pornography.

[3][4] However the genre remains a very small proportion of the pornographic DVD market; for example at porn retailer HotMovies.com, there are only 655 bisexual titles out of a catalogue of more than 90,000 films.

[4] The sex columnist Violet Blue states that bisexual pornography usually features gay male actors who are straight-for-pay.

Blue says that many bisexual productions suffer from poor casting, lack of enthusiasm from homophobic directors, and lackluster performances because "all too many bisexual videos feature two men having sex with each other while desperately trying not to enjoy the female participants.

Powers says that the genre is rapidly increasing in popularity, however prejudice exists in the industry against heterosexual men who appear in bisexual pornography, women who work with bisexual or gay men may be shunned due to perceived risk of HIV infection, and gay viewers may object to gay performers working with women because heterosexual sex is perceived as reinforcing a "heteronormative paradigm".