I think "decent number" needs to be quantified to be in any way useful for the discussion. Are we talking 20% of the population? 5%? Less?
I don't know. I think some studies exist, but I don't have good numbers. (If the category "men who have sex with men but identify as straight" includes "men who have sex with trans women," I believe it's in the neighborhood of 5-10%, but that's the only one I remember numbers on.)
Transsexual porn is very much a minority of all porn produced, though. There'd be a lot more of it if there were a much more sizable population of consumers.
I could ask you to quantify this, too. :)
Like, I wouldn't think to ask every woman I met if she was a Mary Kay consultant (there are about 600,000 Mary Kay consultants, which is about .2% of the American population).
You also wouldn't be astonished if you met one, especially in contexts you would expect to disproportionately contain Mary Kay consultants. My point isn't that trans people are half the population and everyone wants to sleep with us; if that were the case we wouldn't have this problem. My point is just that this isn't as rare as yagathai and others might think.
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Date: 2010-08-07 07:32 pm (UTC)I don't know. I think some studies exist, but I don't have good numbers. (If the category "men who have sex with men but identify as straight" includes "men who have sex with trans women," I believe it's in the neighborhood of 5-10%, but that's the only one I remember numbers on.)
Transsexual porn is very much a minority of all porn produced, though. There'd be a lot more of it if there were a much more sizable population of consumers.
I could ask you to quantify this, too. :)
Like, I wouldn't think to ask every woman I met if she was a Mary Kay consultant (there are about 600,000 Mary Kay consultants, which is about .2% of the American population).
You also wouldn't be astonished if you met one, especially in contexts you would expect to disproportionately contain Mary Kay consultants. My point isn't that trans people are half the population and everyone wants to sleep with us; if that were the case we wouldn't have this problem. My point is just that this isn't as rare as