Porn forced gay sex

“I literally gasped.” In the article’s second paragraph, there was a mention of Heated Rivalry. Men together was something they could just watch and enjoy sexually, romantically, without having to really engage with some of the more complex stuff going on with their feelings about their own sexuality.”

Foster has published papers on the phenomenon and has found no tidy explanation.

“I was like, ‘Boy, these books are spicy.’ But it’s also funny, it’s smart — and a very compelling love story.”

Tierney was working in reality TV as executive producer of The Traitors Canada when he read a Washington Post article about romance novels being a billion-dollar industry that doesn’t get taken particularly seriously.

But the pleasure is presented in a different way.

Both projects performed well enough to prove the genre could not only find a mainstream audience but also mint stars (RoyalBlue’s Nicholas Galitzine will be starring next year as He-Man).

Still, both were relatively mild portrayals of gay romance — more PG than hard R.

Enter Heated Rivalry, the most balls-to-the-wall erotic programming to hit screens since Skinemax.

Now they’re sold out on Amazon and occupy the top slot on the Kindle charts.

Tierney is the last person you’d expect to be a voracious consumer of romance novels. “A friend said, ‘Why don’t you listen to some audiobooks?’ and Heated Rivalry was one of the first I listened to,” he says.

It’s this gay hockey smut.’ And everybody went, ‘Really?

“It was getting a lot of promo, so I was like, ‘I’ll check it out. Women are allowed to write about men. They’re always checking in with each other, which is incredibly attractive to watch.” 

Joy is hardly the show’s only female fan — indeed, legions of women across the globe are tuning in, from Australia and New Zealand to Spain, with streamers in the U.K.

and Ireland soon to follow. But there are other, more nuanced factors at play.

“Sigmund Freud has famously said that everyone is born with a predisposition toward bisexuality,” he says. Later, in a show of network harmony, he appeared all smiles alongside Hudson Williams at an HBO Max promotional event in Century City.

But Firstman hasn’t been the only one complaining.

But some aspects of the sport’s culture made her feel “sad and angry,” she says. “I’m going to put some other stuff as well from the other books to keep the fans happy, which is my pleasure.”

Fans are happy, all right. Even the NHL, which in recent years has been trying to broaden its appeal to gay sports fans with LGBTQ-themed events and nights, has expressed delight with the program.

“There are so many ways to get hooked on hockey and, in the NHL’s 108-year history, this might be the most unique driver for creating new fans,” a league rep tells THR.

Is it with allyship?