Sex And Comics
Comixxx: How do comic books deal with our sexual desires?

Brian Gibson

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And maybe comics can offer more of a projection-screen for the sexual imagination than a video or film. "Transgender porn is surprisingly popular in comics form, making up what I have to imagine is a much higher percentage of total porn than in any other format. I theorize," Birkemoe says. "This is mostly because with pen and ink you can create the transgendered body of your fantasy much more easily than you can find an actor with those traits, if such a person even exists."

In North America, Birkemoe's noticed, "LGBT themes in comics sell very well in comics form, but much more so in ... personal works by LGBT authors than by some token reference in a superhero book." There can be a greater part-of-life honesty to graphic novels, Bardyla says: "If you examine the more alternative and independent comic sector, the vast majority of those stories are auto- or quasi-biographical and therefore lend themselves to discussing most people's biggest hang up: sex."