Comments on: happy (and not so happy) porn

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:02:37 +0000

Porn is a supply and demand business, but what I think should be noted is that pre-internet porn was much worse because nobody took the trouble to find out what was wanted – consumers took what they were given. Otherwise there would never have been such a boom in “alternative” content of one kind or another, from the most obscure fetishes to GLBT to regular looking men and women instead of models.

So… I think there IS a demand for it, it’s just that the status quo is so much easier to find.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:20:05 +0000

I think there are SO many arenas to touch on when it comes to answering this question. It’s a big one, but you probably know that.

From what the experience of the women involved in making the porn is (and what their lives are like outside that: bear in mind HOW many women in the world still rarely reach orgasm or experience real pleasure of their own in sex); to who is directing and what their agenda is; to how for some, porn is for masturbation and masturbation is — again, for some, though I’m inclined to say many when we’re talking about men and how a lot of men are conditioned — the sexual time when you are only self-concerned/how desires in porn don’t always and often don’t correlate to desires per partnered sex; to what segments of what populace are being served; to how women’s sexuality and pleasure is still so invisible culturally, period, and of course, to what the differences are in fantasy and reality….

…big question. Lotsa answers. :)

Of course, the hard answer is that porn is a supply-and-demand business like any other, as you know. So if these approaches did NOT work for most folks who buy it, the people making it for the purposes of profit would clearly make changes because that profit is their previaling interest.

But again, you know that already.

By: cfw

cfw — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:35:06 +0000

This looks like an excellent point. At least
there can be acting like an orgasm has occurred. Now it looks like it is not cool to have a woman in orgasm on video – wrong, wrong, wrong, in my view. If every het sex scene had in the script roughly balanced male and female orgasms, with the female o realistically portrayed (meaning 80% not caused just by penis in vagina), then things would be lots more interesting and balanced. How hard is that?