Being someone who identifies as gay but is hardly acculturated to the lives of gay and bi males in constant close proximity and density compared to those who live in more urbane areas, I can readily admit that most of my day-to-day experience with the gay experience is composed of perusing artistic, fantastical displays on the Web. I’m not as frequent in coming across photographic depictions of m/m and m/solo models, unless fantastical photomanipulations can count as photographic depictions.

But when I do meet real gay/bi/curious males and females in day-to-day real life, it is very hard for me to fathom a comparison between these guys and the guys who are depicted in fantastical 2D/3D drawings and photomanipulations, although the latter is somewhat easier for such a comparison.

Of course, the same can be said for my view of females of any orientation in photographic/drawn depictions of sex as opposed to real-life views. Maybe it’s just that, for me, the depiction of any person cannot compare to the real-world, real-time perceptions of a person, no matter in which position or action such individuals may be situated.

Yet, while depictions are inferior in their offerings of depth to the pertinent subject matter, they are far more numerous than the real-time, real-world perceptions of individuals who bear passing resemblances or links to the pertinent subject matter of the depiction. 

So I think it is relevant to opine that there is not numerically-enough or diverse-enough black or dark-brown-skinned gay porn on the Internet. Such a sentiment may sound very color-centric (not racist, as this is of concern to both people of African, South Asian and Native American ancestry), but I seriously think that the far-greater, far more diverse prominence of lighter skin color on the Internet (I mean, not just ethnic diversity from North America to East Asia, but subcultural diversity ranging from bear to twink) may predispose many people of darker skin color to describe homosexuality and other non-heteronormative identities as un-African, un-Indian imports from European culture.

Plus I think that a further diversification of varieties of gay black/dark-brown subcultures, terminologies and pertinent media (or at least a better establishment of such subcultures within a fuller view of the world) can also assist in both the advancement of external self-esteem among gay/bi/lesbian/trans dark-skinned people. This shouldn’t have to come at the expense of self-esteem among light-skinned LGBT people depicted in art.