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it’s kind of crazy that “he has a sadness in his eyes you only see in Eastern European gay porn” took off, because the joke is, like, exclusively about people being sexually exploited due to miserable economic conditions.

Unfortunately to the majority of this site Eastern Europe is not actually a real place full of actual human beings, instead a vague concept where everything's grey and miserable and (to the slightly less ignorant) full of violent ethnic tensions, and if you try to explain why that's the popular Western conception of the place and why things got so miserable from the late 80s onward they'll just call you a tankie

Good time to link the The Fall Of Communism As Seen Through Gay Pornography video essay

I think it's better if you read the article instead because some people might find the video uncomfortable or upsetting (it contains scenes from said pornos. Not explicit scenes but scenes of the men themselves being filmed and clearly uncomfortable). Here's a post with with highlights from the article too if you'd like that.

maybe i was born to be mutuals with you