{"id":1952,"date":"2010-06-10T19:02:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2010-06-10T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:02:25","slug":"post-what-oprah-didnt-tell-you-about-porn-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/post-what-oprah-didnt-tell-you-about-porn-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Post: What Oprah Didn’t Tell You About Porn For Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Oprah\"I’ve written a guest post for Good Vibrations magazine. It’s called What Oprah Didn’t Tell You About Porn For Women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wanted to give a back-to-basics rundown of what I think are the main points about porn for women and what it encompasses. One of the things I wanted to point out is the ongoing blind spot the media has when it comes to websites. The Oprah show happily quoted the Nielsen Netratings statistic that one in three viewers of online porn are women… and then went on to only talk about films and DVDs. The freedom of the internet is one of the main reasons why women’s erotica has grown so much in the last few years.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a few paragraphs.<\/p>\n

In November 2009 the Oprah show went to air with a controversial topic \u201cWhy millions of women are using porn and erotica.\u201d The show breathlessly reported that one in three users of online porn are women and dispatched Lisa Ling to investigate this apparently shocking statistic.<\/p>\n

While it was great that such a mainstream TV show wanted to delve into the whole topic of women and porn, the end result was less than illuminating. We didn\u2019t really find out why so many women are into porn and we also didn\u2019t get to find out about the growing genre of porn for straight women, both in films and online. Instead, a great deal of the show was taken up with an interview with ex porn star Jenna Jameson. And despite a valiant effort by author Violet Blue, the type of porn discussed stayed firmly within the realm of big-budget, LA porn valley productions, most of which consider women to be only peripheral consumers. As far as mainstream porn is concerned, women only watch dirty videos with their husbands and spouses, not on their own.<\/p>\n

Oprah\u2019s show skimmed the surface but it didn\u2019t really present a clear picture.<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s the real deal?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that a third of online porn consumers are women. This has been the case for most of this decade; the first Nielsen Netratings survey to reveal the one-third figure came out in 2003. Similar surveys around the world offer the same kinds of statistics and, given the popularity of porn, that equates to an awful lot of horny women.<\/p>\n

Few major porn companies were prepared to embrace the female market until recently, and that was only when other revenue options began to decline. It\u2019s still a standard maxim within the adult industry that women don\u2019t watch porn. Plenty assume that women are just \u201cnot built that way\u201d, that biologically, we\u2019re more interested in romance or men who do housework than sex. The myth that \u201cwomen aren\u2019t visually stimulated\u201d remains entrenched in the public imagination.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, women do enjoy erotic material. A study by Northwestern University in 2003 found that most women will become physically turned on by explicit sexual images, even if the conscious mind doesn\u2019t agree. The research reflects what many women experience when it comes to porn \u2013 it can be arousing and fun to watch, although too often our brains are rebelling at the stereotypes, plastic surgery, unrealistic sex or bad dialogue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Head over to Good Vibrations Magazine<\/a> to read the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written a guest post for Good Vibrations magazine. It’s called What Oprah Didn’t Tell You About Porn For Women. I wanted to give a back-to-basics rundown of what I think are the main points about porn for women and what it encompasses. One of the things I wanted to point out is the ongoing blind spot the media has when it comes to websites. The Oprah show happily quoted Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[585],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pornforwomen","tag-oprah"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}