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Ramsay’s article emerges from a flier over into the responses of a representational of mainly Dutch participants to a selected representation of gay porn materials. The article argues that, based on the findings of the look, women not simply possess a supportive rejoinder to gay porn and the gay copulation represented but also narrate feelings of empathy. Ramsay’s article acts as a contribution to an emergent leaflets on the diversified audiences for gay porn that includes Lucy Neville’s (2015) select try also on female consumption of gay porn, Florian Voros’ (2015) equally fascinating analysis of manful porn viewers and the crucial audience check out occupation conducted nearby Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, and Martin Barker (2011), and which all on collectively to blast stereotypes and generalizations thither porn audiences, who they are and how they present to porn materials.<br>