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Studio polish and kitchen-table candour sit side by side at the top of California's list. On one side are men who have spent years building full-length catalogues and running their pages like private clubs. Most of the others arrived this summer or later, and several of them write. There is a gay romance novelist, a man who reads his own erotic shorts aloud, a parody comic with a camera and a Sacramento software engineer in the middle of a gym overhaul. The old hands deal in finished films, the newcomers in chapters, sketches and gym check-ins, and each side makes the other look better.

Los Angeles claims most of them, West Hollywood above all, and Sacramento keeps one coder for the north. The state runs from Oregon down to Baja California, with Nevada and Arizona at its back and the Pacific in front, and across all 433 Californians on our books the tone swings between glossy and homemade. This page is where the two meet most often.

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#2Domenico Dane: The Gothic Romance Reader With a Brown-Sugar Latte

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#5Roman Gey: The Victorian Bookworm Who Reads It Aloud

Ask Roman Gey about erotic literature and he may well steer the talk back to the nineteenth century. After a spell with modern gay erotica he went digging into the past and came back thrilled by the Victorian novel Teleny. He writes his own gay romance shorts, from mild to wild, and reads them aloud on his OnlyFans page. Subscribing feels rather like joining a late-night book club with the lights low. His very first story began with people-watching at a gay bar. He loves swapping reading tastes, asks everyone what their fantasy is, and happily writes a fresh one for anyone who gets in touch. The charm is bookish, flirtatious and generous.

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#8aaron: The Sacramento Coder Who Dances at the Latin Stage

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#10Chicken Shakez: The Mock-Documentary Clown Who Answers Every Message

Chicken Shakez is the one here who sticks to a bit. The Los Angeles comic makes very silly video projects with a perfectly straight face. There are cartoon parodies shot across New York, a spa review delivered like consumer journalism, and a forensic investigation into whether a new gay dating app fixes anything at all (his verdict was scathing). He has also sat as a model for a drawing session at the Tom of Finland Foundation, which feels about right. His OnlyFans page, new this spring, is frank, naked and unashamed. Everything comes with the subscription, private photo and video requests are welcome, and he promises to answer every message. Bearded, cheeky and terrific company.

Beards and muscle label more California men than anything else, yet neither travels especially well up the list. The popular end favours one label, at 18% of the favourites against 14% of all the creators listed, with two others ahead by a few points. Smooth holds exactly level. Finish is what the favourites sell: groomed, gym-kept and photographing like a campaign shoot, with just enough ink to keep it from looking like a catalogue. The bears and muscle daddies hardly lack admirers. Their fans are simply spread more thinly, while the polished men cluster near the top.