Of course, visual art isn’t porn – but it’d be disingenuous not to recognise the fuzzy line between the two throughout history and where historical art representations of the male form will have influenced later pornographic movements Related: This is why straight men watch gay porn There were saucy close-up drawings of women’s bodies on cave walls at least 37,000 years ago.Īnd there are 3,000 year old artifacts from Ancient Egypt showing gay scenes, and even a 2,000-year-old gay sex cave painting by the San Bushmen in what is now fiercely homophobic Zimbabwe. Scientists are largely in agreement that homosexuality has existed for as long as sexuality, and depictions of the male form in art have existed for tens of thousands of years. (Creative Commons) What was the first gay porn?
