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Originally Posted by Ea
As far as I'm aware, yes absolutely, but I'd say it depends on the material. Women tend to be more interested in erotica(*) produced for women, rather than erotica produced for men. For example m/m romance or slash fan fiction, which is typically written by women.
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I haven't read enough erotica to be able to pinpoint the target audience: "okay, this is for women, this is for men", but yeah, it brings up the good point that just cuz it's m/m doesn't mean it's just for the consumption of homosexual men. Look at the fanfiction community:a lot of women who write and read slash. I would consider it normal and acceptable to read about characters (whether in erotica or other genres) with a different sexual orientation from the reader.
We read books from with the POV of the opposite gender all the time. We read/watch books/movies with sex (of varying intensity/graphic nature) all the time. I don't think it's really that much of a stretch to think that it should be normal for readers to read about characters with a different gender/orientation having sex. Maybe erotica's not for everyone, but the idea of people who aren't homosexual reading m/m isn't inherently strange.
I think it could make sense for Amazon to have a special over 18 section where all the more sexually explicit books are stocked (where you you have to access with an age-approved Amazon account or something), but again, that should include all m/m, w/m, w/w, w/m/w/mwhatever across the board. Just *not* stocking m/m just because it's m/m makes Amazon a bunch of bigots.