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Sexy memes of sapphic desire began proliferating in late July when creator Rebecca Cutter\u2019s <\/a>The Hunting Wives<\/a><\/em> dropped on Netflix<\/a>. Photos of Malin \u00c5kerman\u2019s Texan temptress Margo licking salt off Brittany Snow\u2019s buttoned-up Sophie appeared alongside thirsty captions. Queer women and beyond shared in the comments about what they\u2019d want either of those characters to do to them. The story of a fish-out-of-water New England elite entranced by a libidinous Texan in a so-called conservative community elicited communal desire, and it made jaws drop over its wild plot.<\/p>\n \u201cI loved the horniness of the book. I love how\u2026everyone was just doing everything, didn’t have a real moral hangup about anything,\u201d Cutter tells Out <\/em>about May Cobb\u2019s 2021 novel. \u201cI thought Sophie’s kind of in love with Margo, but also she thinks she’s framing her<\/em>, and I love anything that\u2019s like, both things are happening at once.\u201d<\/p>\n Word of mouth propelled the series to the top of the streaming charts, where it remained at number 1, according to Luminate<\/a>, which tracks the total minutes shows are streamed. For all its guns, booze, Xanax, queer sex, wigs, dildos, and murder, the series became a welcome, zeitgeisty distraction from the daily news, even as it tackled hot-button topics like immigration, abortion, and female sexual agency.<\/p>\n By August, Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers dedicated a segment to the show on their Las Culturistas <\/em><\/a>podcast, and iconoclast Gabbey Windey addressed her love for the series on her podcast, <\/em>Long Winded.<\/a><\/em> \u201cHorny and porny,\u201d she called it, adding that she\u2019d received a DM from someone who said that porn was banned in their state. They were using The Hunting Wives<\/em> in its place. Featuring otherwise conservative women in open and queer relationships and pegging their husbands, the series afforded viewers escape and pleasure.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m so grateful to see such a grateful response from the queer community, a curious and excited response from, what I feel like, is straight women on TikTok. I love that we don’t have to define it,\u201d Cutter says. \u201cI\u2019ve been married to an amazing man for a long time. I\u2019ve also had relationships with women in the past. Let’s just all be curious.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s let the women who are watching the show be curious about themselves, see what they see in the show, and what a lovely thing to have happened this summer,\u201d she adds. \u201cAmong so many terrible things, if for a few seconds you get to be distracted and turned on by sexy women, great.\u201d<\/p>\n