Ethel Cain shares her favorite homoerotica in iconic new video, from Boy Love comics to vintage snuff
Preacher’s Daughter in 2022, a sprawling concept album about the trauma of growing up in a strict, conservative Southern community, spiked with the soaring rock anthem “American Teenager.”But its not just through her music that Cain—whose real name is Hayden Anhedönia—speaks to her fans.
She’s a pretty prolific social media poster, too, known for her fiery takes railing against politicians and many of our modern institutions.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Of course, it’s not all doom and gloom.
Sometimes she just likes to share what she’s into at the moment. And, sometimes, what she’s into is watching two men touching and kissing each other!This week, Cain posted a nearly 10-minute long video to her YouTube channel simply titled “my favorite types of gay p*rn,” and, well, let’s just say what follows absolutely delivers on that promise.Sitting in her home, the musician introduces herself to her audience before launching into an off-the-cuff chat about the guy-on-guy adult content she likes the most, starting with “2010s Tumblr original narrative gay p*rn.”Cain specifically shouts out Starfighter, a sci-fi webcomic saga from artist HamletMachine, a popular American yaoi title—”yaoi” being the Japanese term for a genre of media that depicts homoerotic relationships, which is in turn the basis for the increasingly popular Boy Love “BL” film & television genre.The popularity of these stories in Thai television has exploded in recent years, becoming a proper phenomenon that draws in viewers from Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and beyond.“They’re original characters, telling very cool narratives, but it was also p*rnographic, which I always thought was very cool and so fun,” she explains.Proving she knows her stuff, Cain also gets into the art styles of Starfighter, Avialae—another fave of hers—and others of their kind to be born out of the early Tumblr era, explaining how American-made.
