Australian Porn Survey And Ethical Smut

Seems the Sydney Morning Herald is on a roll with the porn. I suspect they’ll be publishing smut stories all week.

The first one reports on the results of Alan McKee’s Understanding Pornography in Australia survey which studied 1000 self-selected porn users.

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What consumers liked about pornography was that it was pleasurable, educational, and re-assuring. Less than 7 per cent said it had a negative effect on their attitudes towards sex; 58.8 per cent said it was positive…

Porn users had strong opinions on what constituted “good” pornography, the survey found. They looked for actors who showed enthusiasm and “enjoy themselves”, say Dr McKee’s accounts in Continuum, the Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. They did not like non-consensual sex. His analysis of a sample of Australia’s top 50 porn videos showed “that many of the sex acts … pay attention to women’s pleasure”.

The article also has these interesting figures:

Women comprise almost 35 per cent of internet porn-site visitors, and 42 per cent of customers of sex shops, up from 10 per cent 15 years ago, according to Fiona Patten, chief executive of the Eros Association, the peak body for the adult retail industry.

See, we Aussie girlies are ahead of the pack when it comes to enjoying our smut.

The second piece in today’s Herald is an opinion piece by Kath Albury who helped conduct the survey. She essentially argues that it’s up to the porn user to decide what they feel is ethical and to make their consumer choices accordingly.

My suggestion to men who are worried about pornography is that they consider whether the images they choose are produced under ethical conditions. Does the web page or video suggest that sexually active women are stupid or naive? Does it imply that it’s OK to trick or manipulate women into acts they don’t want to perform, because, after all, they’re “just dumb sluts”? Does the plot-line or image suggest a disregard for the performer’s health and safety? Does it place performers at clear risk of sexually transmissible infections? Are condoms used? Does the company that produces the pornography subscribe to the guidelines of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (www.aim-med.org)? If consumers are not sure of the answers to these questions, they should ask for more information. If that is not forthcoming, they should exercise their rights to seek out explicit material that meets their ethical standards.

Well said.