Lesbians for Men

　　Men love girls who love girls: 125 years of faux lesbian fantasy photography

　　Straight men have always had a thing for lesbians, or more correctly, for essentially straight women willing to do other women for their viewing pleasure. When a man sees two women together there’s no jealousy that another man’s getting the woman he can’t, as with heterosexual porn, just the joy of everything he likes times two, and the unshakable fantasy that women that wild would surely invite him to join in.

　　Yes, it’s unrealistic, but that doesn’t make it any less popular, and photographers have been documenting these faux lesbian couplings for over 100 years. Lesbians For Men is the first photo book to acknowledge such photos are created to fuel male fantasy, to explore the reasons, and to trace their origins back to 1890, and forward to the present day.

　　Over 300 photos, in black and white and color, celebrate the obliging women who’ve kissed, fondled, and fulfilled men’s lesbian cravings, in images created for pornography as well as “fine art”. Contemporary photographers include Bruno Bisang, Terry Richardson, Petter Hegre, Richard Kern, Nicola Ranaldi, Will Santillo, Guido Argentini, Ed Fox and Liz Earls. Subjects range from simply affectionate to everything two women can do when they want to please male viewers as much as each other.

　　Text in English, French, and German

作者簡介

　　Dian Hanson produced a variety of men’s magazines from 1976 to 2001, including Juggs, Outlaw Biker and Leg Show, before becoming TASCHEN’s Sexy Book editor. Her 60+ books for TASCHEN include The Art of Pin-up and Psychedelic Sex. She lives in Los Angeles.