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<\/a>It’s not new for people to protest against the phrase “porn for women”. Many see it as prescriptive, presumptive and anti-feminist. I’ve written about this plenty of times on the blog e.g. “Porn for women: the backlash”<\/a>. But 2013 saw an upswing in general negativity about the whole idea.<\/p>\n* In January, CNBC announced that porn had found a new market<\/a>. Women. The mainstream media does this every now and then, like it’s a shocking new thing.<\/p>\n Consequently, Jezebel declared “Please stop trying to make ladyporn happen”<\/a>. And Slate<\/a> had an interview with Jacky St James. She said:<\/p>\n I don’t like when people say \u201cporn for women,\u201d because as a woman, that\u2019s not the kind of porn I watch… When we say \u201cadult films for women,\u201d we\u2019re still targeting men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My take: “We’re still targeting men: Couples porn and the male perspective.<\/a><\/p>\n * In June actor Ellen Page said “Feminist porn is crucial”, in reply to a question by Courtney Trouble on a Reddit AMA thread. This reply was reported in several media outlets. In this article<\/a>, Courtney said:<\/p>\n ‘Porn For Women’ is a marketing construct about as legit as the Bic ‘Pen for Her’ products – set up by large adult film studios to affirm that women are not part of the general consumers of pornography, which may have been true 20 years ago when we weren’t granted equal access to pornography, but not now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My take: Porn for women is not analogous to Bic Pens For Women<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMy theory on porn for women is it\u2019s just porn. Why is there porn explicitly only for women? By saying there needs to be porn for women, you\u2019re basically isolating women as a gender, and saying, \u2018This is how women should think. This is how their sexuality should be.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n These comments were subsequently reported in numerous outlets including Jezebel, Huffington Post, The Frisky and Cosmpolitan, with those articles adding their own take, agreeing with him. In essence, it appeared that the entire internet declared “porn for women” to be an unnecessary concept although this Reddit thread<\/a> showed a diversity of opinion, as did the Frisky comments section.<\/p>\n My take: James Deen denies porn for women exists.<\/a><\/p>\n * In November, a new adult magazine called, surprisingly, Adult<\/em>, was launched. Editor Sarah Nicole Prickett said she wanted it to appeal to both women and men. The media only heard the last bit and declared the new magazine to be a porn mag for women<\/a>. Prickett went out of her way to deny this. In Marie Claire<\/a> she said:<\/p>\n \u2018I don\u2019t believe in \u201cporn for women\u201d,\u2019 Prickett says. \u2018The porn that I watch certainly does not fall into that category. It\u2019s not that I think porn for women is going to be, like, softer or gentler than it is for men.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Rest assured, I have noticed that I’m increasingly sounding like an old fart shouting “get off my lawn!” (*loads shotgun*)<\/p>\n But I think it’s fair to paraphrase Mark Twain and declare that rumours of the demise of “porn for women” have been greatly exaggerated. Heaps of people still insist on typing the phrase into Google<\/a> every day. If so many people feel the need to specifically seek it out, should commentators be so quick to dismiss it? And what does it say about the perspectives, assumptions and content of regular porn?<\/p>\n![\"jamesdeen\"](\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jamesdeen-150x150.jpg\")
<\/a>* In August, popular male star James Deen told Refinery 29 that:<\/p>\nFeminist Porn -A-Rama<\/h3>\n