TWINCEST.

A recent post on Queerty ("Free of an agenda... except that gay one") announced that a new boundary had been crossed in porn: sex between gay identical twins.
GAY. IDENTICAL. TWINS.




If these were a brother and sister having sex, there would be prayer meetings and phone banking and marches happening. Why? Well, parts of the straight world (the especially straight parts) have pretty much written off gay men as morally corrupt, lost souls capable of any acts of depravity. So seeing "proof" of this depravity in the form of gay twincest only confirms their beliefs. Horrible and disgusting, but what else could you really expect from those kinds of people.

However, female twincest is celebrated by dominant sex culture. These are the Playboy twins, Kristina and Karissa Shannon:



These all-American girls even star on Girls Next Door, the E! reality show that follows Hugh Hefner's rotating, ever-youthful girlfriends. The twins live with Hef, and "sometimes share his bed." Do images like these evoke comments about destroying the family, the fundamental institution of human civilization? No. But there are lots of comments about how the twins are too flat-chested and are due for twin boob jobs.

Gamelink even has a "Top Porn Twins" list, featuring mostly blonde female twins that "didn't get it on with each other, but they came close... they continue to share boyfriends, girlfriends and toys on their website and in countless online clips."


As with most lez-bunny porn, these women are portrayed as wildly bisexual, the "naughty girl-on-girl" action forever catering to straight male voyeuristic sexual pleasure rather than the subjective pleasure of the two women engaging in sex. This is just another confirmation that as far as most straight men are concerned, two women having sex is all fun and games- after all, it's not REAL sex-with-a-penis sex, so they're really just playing around. Right?


Back to the story about the male twins-- the comments on the blog post are quite informative:

"Hmmm, I see your twins and raise a set of triplets!!! " (link is very explicit)


The Visconti triplets pose naked together, have group sex in which an unrelated man has one brother's cock in his ass and another down his throat, masturbate to one of the brothers having sex with an unrelated male, sometimes give each other handjobs and share double-ended dildos. But since they are not shown having penetrative sex with each other, as the next commenter notes, "they don't do anything together, do they?"


I'm guessing he means that the triplets don't actually fuck each other, they are merely fuck-adjacent. Any action less than penetration by a penis isn't anything, doesn't count as sex? I'll have to remember that.

One of the triplets has said, "We have gotten questions about our sexuality. To tell you the truth, we are a smorgasbord of anything and everything. We’d like to try anything…well except each other because that may be pushing the boundaries; however, it’s not to say that it’s impossible. But as we speak, there are no plans of us “doing” each other."

What? Sexuality is on a spectrum? You're not fully 100% gay like your ads say? *gasp* No!

Back to the comments on the first article:

"This is really disturbing. Making incest look cool is bad. Firstly incest is not appropriate…unlike gay marriage IT DOES HURT the family structure – what next, gay fathers being sexually intimate with their adopted son (even if above 18)? Can you imagine a similar shot showing brother-sister or mother-son? And then gays wonder why people object to them marrying? If the gay culture in US thinks incest is OK, everything needs to be done to ensure that they can not get married, have a legal family etc. Btw... a gay man here."

This person apparently thinks that this is an example of Gays Gone Wild, and if those crazy US gays are going to do horrible things like incest, better not let them have rights! This also plays upon the myth that gay men are more likely to be pedophiles or try to "recruit" adopted children into the "lifestyle." I especially like how this comment is capped off with a claim of insider identity that is supposed to lend legitimacy to his statement. So while "gay culture in the US" is invariable, this gay man (presumably not in the US) has nothing to do with it.*

So what have we learned?

1. Twincest is gross and wrong when the twins are male.
2. Twincest is sexy playful fun when the twins are female.
3. The Visconti brothers are fine as hell.**

Heteronormativity is safe and sound, kids.



*The gay rights movement is no stranger to its more conservative elements condemning the flamboyant behavior of other gay men in a bid to secure respectability and acceptance from hetero culture.

**Oh, don't tell me you didn't think it too!