Do Women Want to Watch Pornography Made By Other Women?
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Pornography has traditionally been considered the domain of men -- they're the ones who consume most of the magazines and videos, and they're also very powerfully turned on by visual stimulus. But is it possible that sexy movies and images could have just as powerful an appeal for women if other women were the ones who were manufacturing it? On Valentine's Day, the Toronto Star explored this issue (in "What Women Are Starting to Want" by Nora Underwood) by talking to female pornographer Samantha Linton, a 42-year-old married mother of three sons.So what does women's porn look like, versus the images and movies made for men?
- Linton's "sensual DVD," Man of My Dreams, is a series of eight sexy vignettes that range from a quickie with a fireman to a passionate session on a kitchen table -- and they're divided into different sexual experiences, from soft and sensual to raunchy and racy. While Linton acknowledges that some women are actually into the hard-core, graphic sex scenes that men tend to prefer, she's trying to offer women a softer, more eroticized viewing experience. Before making Man of My Dreams, Linton held a focus group to watch pornography and discuss their preferences. She found that most women were turned off by the lame, implausible dialogue that accompanies a number of such movies, so she opted for music instead of words. Her focus group also preferred more romantic scenarios to explicit action, a cue Linton integrated into her softer scenes.
- The idea that men and women are turned on by different visual stimulus isn't new. In 1994, psychologist Dr. Ellen Laan reported the results of her study to determine how a group of women responded to man-made, male-centric porn versus woman-made, female-centric porn. Both types of pornography involved explicit heterosexual sex, but the female-centric porn included considerably more foreplay. The results of the study? Women responded physically to both sets of porn, but they talked themselves out of being turned on mentally by the male-centric porn, describing it as "ludicrous" and "obscene."
- Former porn star, Candida Royalle, explains that women are becoming more interesting in pornography as attitudes toward sex liberalize (and as women become more determined to craft a satisfying sex life for themselves), and as sexy images and videos are increasingly proliferated on the Internet, allowing both free and totally anonymous access. But Royalle also says that the porn industry has been slow to respond to women's curiosity.
So what do you think? Would you be more likely to watch pornography if it was made by women?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jaykayemail 2-23-2010 @ 1:58PM
I worked in a bar where both men and women strippers performed. On nights that men strippers were on stage, the women would go absolutely crazy. We were much busier on those nights. Women were all over the stage and throwing money around like no tomorrow.
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jankantius 2-23-2010 @ 9:29PM
I enjoy porn and watch it regularly. I greatly prefer situational porn which presents some sort of a relationship and a buildup prior to the actual getting naked. It's hard to find that kind of stuff. Hopefully with some women getting in charge of production the quality will improve. It's kind of like that old stereotype that men think with their dicks... I prefer something that indicates there was a mind involved somewhere.
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James S. Fell 2-23-2010 @ 10:21PM
What I want to know is, what do women think of homemade porn?
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