Isn’t she the one reputed to have had sex with horses? So the change to a porn start would be? Irrelevant? Intended to offend fewer morals? Or what?
I don’t know about the horses, but history says that she had casual sex with quite a few men and had quite a few murdered, too.
Pretty sure that was a famous but fake bit of calumny.
One such story claimed she died when a horse, suspended above her for the festivities, fell on her and crushed her.
Wikipedia has this:
Later, several rumors circulated regarding the cause and manner of her death. The most famous of these rumors is that she died after having sex with her horse. This rumor was widely circulated by satirical British and French publications at the time of her death. In his 1647 book Beschreibung der muscowitischen und persischen Reise (Description of the Muscovite and Persian journey), German scholar Adam Olearius claimed that Russians had a fondness for sodomy, especially with horses.[137] Olearius's claims about a supposed Russian tendency towards bestiality with horses was often repeated in anti-Russian literature throughout the 17th and 18th centuries to illustrate the alleged barbarous "Asian" nature of Russia. Given the frequency which this story was repeated together with Catherine's love of her adopted homeland and her hippophilia, it is likely that these details were conflated into this rumor. Catherine had been targeted for being an unmarried woman and for her opposition towards the French Revolution so this and the frequent gossip surrounding her love life may have contributed towards the rumors' spread.[138]
Gay horses in the Zeeper bathhouses LOLOLOLOLOLO
Not reputed, rumored by her enemies. She was promiscuous with many men though and was a despot, so the only great thing about her is that she wanted Russia to catch up to the Age of Enlightenment in science and culture that Europe was experiencing.