Early gay pornography

The early 70s also paved ways to gay pornographers to earn by selling their crafts via mail-order. Cameras that enabled filmmakers to make underground gay porn was on the rise and movies like masturbating men were made using them. They are being sold discreetly to clients but filmmakers relied on words of mouth to advertise their materials.

The short film The Surprise of a Knight is often credited with being the first gay porn film, but this isn’t entirely accurate since there have been earlier depictions of gay sex on video. The early to midth century saw the release of several stag films, a type of pornographic silent film that usually lasted around 10 minutes at most.