I’ve been going through another flood here so I’ve been pretty distracted over the last few days. Seems that ABC has now decided to report on women enjoying porn, this time profiling Nica Noelle. Nica gives a good account of herself and her work.
For decades, the female market has eluded pornographers, whose all-male lenses zoomed in on body parts and had little context or dialogue. But today, with cultural and technological shifts that make pornography more acceptable and accessible, Noelle has a fan base that includes women — lots of them…
“What I am doing is passion, romance and emotion,” Noelle said. “People look like real people of all ages and not just Barbie dolls. They want to see something soft and romantic.”
Unfortunately, ABC does the usual bullshit thing of talking about “addiction” and gets in some “expert” who no doubt makes a shit load of money “curing” people.
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“Men and women view sex differently,” he said. “Men tend to be more visual and more attracted to body parts. Women tend to look at the whole.”
Oh fuck off.
Then ABC gets all “somebody think of the children” and thankfully Nica dismisses that on behalf of all of us.
Jezebel isn’t happy with the article, mainly because ABC is making generalisations about women and porn. Their article is titled “Lady Porn Is Not A Thing“. Naturally, you know my thoughts on that. Lady Porn has been a thing for me for 13 years. Still, Jezebel’s point is worth making.
…blanket statements about what women currently and historically jill off to are getting really old… Filmmakers like Noelle should definitely be profiled and it’s worth noting that there are different types of pornography out there, options that are easier to privately explore thanks to the internet and appeal more to some segments of the population. But why does it always have to be framed as “ladies be watching the porn”?
Thankfully, Emma Young makes a good argument in The Sydney Morning Herald about this. Her piece is titled: Why ‘women are watching porn should not be a story.’
The underlying assumption that makes pronouncements like CNBC’s noteworthy is that the fairer sex has never been particularly interested in sex. Sex, it was often assumed, was a business driven more by male desires and expectations…
While it’s all very well to announce that more women are watching porn, what’s more interesting is the hope that the historically conservative view of female sexuality is becoming more expansive and less judgmental. So much so that one day those articles won’t even need to be written.