And what those male viewers have learned to expect from trans porn, it seems, is trans women with erect penises who penetrate their partners-whether that’s what most trans women want to do in their real lives or not. “There’s the basic general rule that mainstream porn is always marketed to men,” says Hill-Meyer.
Pornhub reports that men are 63 percent more likely to search for transgender-related pornography, and xHamster says a full 87.5 percent of their searches for the word “shemale” are from men. But it’s a truth well-known among porn industry insiders. It may come as a surprise to some that the majority of pornography featuring trans women is consumed by cisgender men who identify as heterosexual. These same decision-makers wanted to film what their viewers-other cisgender men-wanted to see trans women do. And of course, that someone else making the decision was following the direction of one of those 12 rich, white, cisgender guys who ran everything.”
Someone else made the decisions and told me what I should be doing. “I didn’t get to make decisions about what would be erotic. “They literally had me scripted out by the minute,” she recalls. She was to shoot a 30-minute masturbation scene. Hill-Meyer remembers the first time she got hired by a mainstream trans-porn studio as a performer.