I’m kind of bemused at some of the recent news articles that discuss the idea of women enjoying porn. Since the Oprah show they’ve been popping up here and there and they all seem to breathlessly report the “1 in 3 porn surfers is female” like it’s a brand new phenomenon.
It’s not.
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I’m now approaching a decade of making porn sites and I’ve been catering to an eager female audience the whole time. And I wasn’t the first person to do this. Women have been seeking out decent porn for years now and even Nielsen Netratings acknowledged this with a “1 in 3” statistic back in 2003. Hell, when my old employer Australian Women’s Forum launched in the early 1990s it was an old idea.
Perhaps the one difference is that it’s now considered more normal, perhaps because the internet generation have become adults. For them, porn is nothing to be ashamed of; it’s part of their everyday lives. And I’m talking about both males and females here.
Still, it’s nice to get see mainstream outlets acknowledging that women enjoy porn.
Here’s a couple of the pieces that prompted this small rant:
The exploding world of soft porn for women (exploding? Phew!)
Women Love Porn, Too!