Kim Cumms in “24/7” – an erotic spanking film from BrightDesire.com. Somen women enjoy “violent porn”
It’s a common assumption that porn commonly depicts violence, that men like this kind of “violent” porn and that women don’t like it. Now there’s some new research that suggests otherwise. Apparently, some women are really into “violent porn”, even more than men.
But hold up. Before I talk about that, I want to draw attention to the whole concept of “violent porn”. Unfortunately, there have been swathes of studies into violence in pornography but their results are often warped by the broad definitions, gender assumptions and “morality” of those who did the research. Far too many studies have defined consensual spanking, hair pulling, tickling and other kinky / BDSM behaviours as “violent”. Subsequently, you get anti-porn feminists rabidly claiming that 90% of porn is violent and that it has become more prevalent over the last few years. It’s not true.
Professor Alan McKee recently tweeted the findings of his book What Do We Know About The Effects Of Pornography After Fifty Years Of Academic Research? and the results can be summarized as: not as much as we should by now. His first point is about the conflation of consensual BDSM and kink with “violence” in too many studies, muddying the waters.
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Professor Eran Shor of McGill University did a study in 2019 that found that porn wasn’t getting “harder” or more violent over time and that viewers didn’t prefer that content.
Now Professor Shor has released a new study which again refutes assumptions about “violent porn” and who watches it. Who Seeks Aggression in Pornography? Findings from Interviews with Viewers was published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour Journal in February. Unfortunately it’s paywalled and Sci Hub doesn’t have a copy so I’ve relied on this Psychology Today article for the gist.
Shor interviewed 122 regular porn viewers, 61 women, 60 men and one gender diverse person. He asked their views on what he called “aggressive pornography” particularly porn that showed aggression toward women. The results:
* Most men and women interviewed weren’t into aggressive porn generally.
* Of those who were, more women than men liked it.
* Those women only liked it if it was consensual, meaning they preferred any rough play to be accompanied by verbal or “facial” consent. As long as it was perceived as pleasurable to the woman in the porn, they were OK with it.
* Those women’s porn tastes reflected their pre-existing sexual tastes i.e. they were already interested in rough sex and sought out porn that embodied their kink.
* Those women didn’t always seek out aggressive porn. It often depended on their mood at the time.
* Many of the women who enjoyed aggressive porn felt guilty about it.
* None of the women who liked aggressive porn wanted to be involved in non-consensual aggressive sex in real life.
The study abstract and the Psychology Today article don’t mention the ages of those 122 people. I wonder if there is any difference between younger and older people when it comes to the enjoyment of aggressive porn.
So to sum up, women have varied taste in porn, as has always been the case. Some women enjoy porn with a bit of rough sex in it. Others don’t. Porn tastes can very much depend on personality and kink, rather than gender.
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