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During my hiatus, I watched a lot of TV while recovering from the FLU and became addicted to a lesbian named Jackie, who is the star of a reality television show called "Workout," aired on the Bravo network.

The boss of a high-rise gym called Sky-Sport that caters to a celebrity clientele, Jackie was on the verge of breaking up with her girlfriend and is presently looking for a new companion.

This being said, the show has caused me to become curious about these two women's relationship, and it has even provoked me to question the differences between the sexual relationships between men and women and women and women.

For the first time, instead of viewing two typically "angry at men" lesbians (which to me is a real turnoff as it shows weakness when a lesbian has this sort of emotional baggage), I just see two people who bring real love and emotional needs to their relationship.

This couple is refreshing, displaying a relationship that is playfully interactive and different from what I'm used to viewing on television.

I love the way they talk to each other and touch each other, as women possess the ability to communicate in a more sensitive and passionately raw way than men. They also really understand each other's intimate needs because they're the same sex.

The power that Jackie has from really knowing and accepting who she is also turns me on, because she has the power that men hold, but she is very much a woman in every way.

The real life relationship between this lesbian couple inspired me to look at how lesbians are portrayed in adult entertainment, specifically the presentations depicted on websites that supposedly show real lesbians in action.

I talked to a fair share of women, both straight and lesbian and for them, the issue is that there seems to be a fundamental difference between the type of lesbian porn that guys want to see and what girls want to see.

The difference being that guys only want to see two gorgeous models (it doesn't matter if they're really lesbians or not) going at it.

Women, on the other hand, want to see what real lesbians do behind closed doors; their attention is held by knowing the truth.

“Fantasies are fun, but knowing what makes a real lesbian tick is the cat's meow,” Sandra, a thirty-year old straight friend of mine said. “I can easily close my eyes and think of something to get off to, but it's knowing and finding out more of the real thing that keeps me coming back for more.”

SapphicErotica.com, one of the most popular lesbian sites, is an example of a typical man's lesbian site. But for Sandra and other women I spoke to, it's just another website with a bunch of pretty girls doing just what guys want them to do for the camera.

It's a beautifully designed site but it is unclear whether it's real or pretend, because it doesn't have anything referring to a real life lesbian's experiences attached to it. There's no personality, interaction, or draw.

“It’s like looking at naked bodies over and over again until they all just look the same,” Mimi, a twenty-five year old lesbian friend of mine said. “It doesn't draw me in to want to know more or pay for more.”

Cyber-Dyke.net on the other hand plays to an audience that wants to see what goes on behind closed doors.

"Welcome to the only erotic entertainment network for women bi women on the web," the web site proclaims in its opening statement.

“The site offers a blog that delivers reality with interaction and while the pictures are still quite sexual, there's a definite chemistry here that's missing in typical male fantasy lesbian porn,” Mimi said.

Sapphosgirls.com, which is a part of the Cyber-Dyke network, offers beauty as well as the chemistry to make women feel like staying around to check out more, and with a statement like "Welcome to the new face of adult sites created for women and by women," what more does a girl need to make her want to see what they're talking about?

Of course, simple teaser text isn't the only ingredient required to inspire an impulse purchase; after all, unless the site truly reflects a feminine vision of lesbian erotica and isn't just the typical 'male fantasy' product claiming to be "by women for women," the women I spoke to aren’t likely to stick around.

Such transparent ruses will send them looking elsewhere.

“There's a handful of sites out there that give a straight girl like me reason to pull out my credit card and quench my thirst, but if it's not for real, then all you'll get from me is Monopoly money, or in other words, if what you're offering me is fake, then don't expect to make a sale,” Sandra said.

But why should the operators of SapphicErotica.com and similar sites care about what women think about lesbian porn or porn in general? Simple, money.

It seems that one of the hardest things for adult website operators to do is persuade women to purchase porn.

But with half of the surfing population made up of women — most of whom are natural born shoppers — it only makes sense for operators to unlock the mystery of getting a girl to loosen her purse strings.

So if you’re looking to take open the purse strings of the opposite sex, ask your girlfriend, wife, main bitch, if she would join your site and incorporate any changes she suggests: it just might be the key to dramatically increasing your bottom line.