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[Caught in the Net] Superherophilia

Summer is ending, and with it the glut of superhero movies (a straggler or two aside) which made the summer so superpowered and explosion-tastic. Since porn is (among other things) the dark mirror of pop culture, I decided to go looking for some superhero porn, and found more than a single column can possibly contain. Some highlights:

In the twisted-and-talented category, we have Ponderosa’s slash fan art, featuring some really very accomplished reimaginings of Batman movie The Dark Knight, including Harvey Dent in a straitjacket with the Joker dressed as a fetish nurse, and Batman and the Joker making out, and Batman plowing the Joker’s ass (as seen above). You seldom see this level of talent in illustrations of superheroes and villains fucking each other!

Some people try to make their own superheroes, as in this Lazer Babes flickr set, subtitled “These women are trying to kill each other with their super powers.” They’re basically standard lesbian porn images, only the women are shooting deadly lasers from their eyes and nipples and several orifices. It’s . . .. weird, but interesting.

Others attempt to get a little superherophilia going in their own lives, like the guy who wrote in for this installment of the “Savage Love” sex advice column, saying in part, “I’m a 42-year-old gay man with a superhero fetish . . . The first time I did it, it was incredibly hot, but since then, it’s felt like something’s missing . . . At times, I even feel a bit ridiculous . . .. Am I just being too uptight, or are there some fantasies that are better left to the imagination?” Dan Savage’s reply is non-judgmental and helpful — as he usually is — and might be helpful to the rest of you out there who feel conflicted about your desires to dress up like a dude who dresses up like a bat prior to doing the nasty. Excuse me. The super-nasty.

New Phoenix Filmworks is an independent movie producer — which insists it Is Not Porn! — that specializes in live-action superhero DVDs, with homegrown heroes like PowerCat, Darkfury, and RetroGirl kicking low-budget ass in skimpy costumes. Maybe it’s not technically porn, but I gotta think their core audience is a certain fetishist set. I mean, to some extent, porn is in the eye of the beholder — as I’ve written here before, there are people who get off to the image of a bare foot pressing a car’s accelerator, or fondling a chunk of the Berlin wall. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as long as the car or the wall consent.)

And if that’s not enough, I’ll let the good people at Fleshbot do some of the work for me — a couple of years back they compiled a nice collection of superhero porn links for your enjoyment. Excelsior, true believers!

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