I've been meaning to write this entry for a looooooong time. Instead, I was writing conference papers and essays for my classes, which left me with no creative energy to invest into this site.

But I'm back now. The deed is done.

And here is what I've been dying to talk about my personal 2009 revelation: 48 percent of all American porn viewers are female. Fortyeight percent. Statistically, that's one half. I need to take a pause, so everybody can enjoy this fact for a moment.

Yeah, I know. It's a fun fact, a little too fun to really be believed. Because here come the questions: Where does this figure come from? What's the source? How reliable is it? Also, why _ American _ porn fans? Are Germans less equal in their preferences? Who can count such a thing? Haven't we all talked to our female friends about it and discovered that they never even saw the classics, _ Deep Throat_, _ Behind the Green Door_, or _ Debbie Does Dallas:_ There can be no doubt about it: 48 percent must be a typo. 18 percent, yes, that's more likely. Maybe 28, or even 38. But never half of all viewers! I'm sure, everyone who just read this number somehow questioned it. It's a stubborn myth that men watch more porn. Men invented porn.

But what probably bothered me the most was my own reaction to my finding: Why in the world was I so surprised? Why was the most illuminating and empowering figure the fact that women do not just act in porno movies to please men but that they consume adult videos for their own pleasure why was this so startling? Of all people, shouldn't I be the least surprised?

I mean, we kinda all knew that they do. Women come across YouPorn and other sexually explicit sites all the time. On the internet, you almost can't avoid it. I certainly can't. In fact, I am discovering new things every day. www.bengalsofficialnfl.com/Authentic-Aj-Green-Jersey But I always have an excuse; I call it research.

Well, to tell you the truth, it's not always research. It's also often curiosity, arousal and pleasure. Every porn scholar who denies that watching porn is fun is either a big liar or asexual. I'm not saying, it's always sexy. After all, how many sex scenes can you handle in one screening? It's not like watching _ Madmen _ or _ Will and Grace _ [Oh, let's see just one more episode!] But I also wouldn't spend three years researching porn if I didn't enjoy it. And I can't be the only woman who does.

So, I did some interrogation something very pseudoscientific, or at least something that usually only social scientists do. I asked my friends, my classmates, and a lot of random people about their porn viewing habits. [This is why I love this blog; I would never be able to talk about these things in my actual dissertation.] I was fascinated by their answers. A lot of guys weren't really into it; in fact, they were kind of appalled by the real hardcore stuff. Women, on the other hand, knew Paris Hilton's private videos and had a lot to say about deepthroating, anal sex and double penetration. But what they also talked about was the fact that they still felt kind of guilty when they liked something violent or less womenfriendly. They said they sure did enjoy it but it felt like they shouldn't.

In the end, what shocked me most was how little women talk about their porn interests, and how invisible they are as viewers. It seemed like the women's rights movement all over again. One half of the population secretly wants what the other half does out in the open.

I guess, it's a silent movement. One that is mostly enabled by the internet. My second fun fact might then no longer come as surprise: As a film historian recently said, the fasted growing group of online porn watchers consists of conservative Christian women.

As much as I and most mainstream American men love the idea of women enjoying porn as much as we do, I couldn help but notice that you asked, but did not answer, the question "where does this figure [48%] come from?". Well, where does this figure come from? And why not name the film historian quoted at the end of your article? Personally, I have found that most of my female partners over the years have enjoyed watching porn from time to time, but who am I to say that this represents a fair sampling of American porn viewers. Plus, I be curious to know if a woman who watches porn once or twice a month is credited in this "study" with the same level of interest as a man who looks at it 2 or 3 times a week.

Also, in anticipation of those who wil decry the very fact that people like to watch porn as evidence of our collective sin and willingness to go to Hell, I would like to simply say that the freedom to watch porn in the privacy of one home is a classic example of the kind of freedom that this country was founded on. The fact that there are social misfits and miscreants who cross the line into child porn and who create porn by exploiting and using those who are pressured into participating against their will should not wipe out the rights of consenting adults who enjoy watching other consenting adults have fun. Prosecute the true criminals but leave the rest of us alone.

And with respect to the argument that porn stars create an www.bengalsofficialnfl.com impossible standard of appearance and skill that the average Dick Jane can live up to, think of how ridiculous that argument is when applied to other forms of entertainment. Should everyone who can serve like Roddick give up tennis?Should everyone who can sing like Taylor Swift stop singing Happy Birthday to their kids? Should we stop watching Brett Favre because we can throw a football the way he can?. By the way, I now been married for more than 15 years and I never abused or cheated on my wife despite exposure to plenty of porn. Maybe if Tiger and Elin had watched a little more porn together he wouldn have felt the need to betray his vows. Then again, maybe he just a jerk who would have cheated anyway. Probably the latter.

cheers on your comment. I absolutely agree with you. Porn cannot be blamed for all the evil that takes place on earth although there are many who would like to see it banned all the way.

Here is to answer your questions. I imagine blogs to be somewhat nonacademic, a playground with different rules than those of academia. And I see to many bloggers just randomly name drop and show off how much they know and whom they know. Don get me wrong I enjoy some academic blogs too and it fine, anyone can do whatever with their blogs, but I like to stay away from the pointing and shooting myself. Maybe I also didn give the source because I generally mistrust statistics. After all, it just another number. I much rather take these random numbers and ask what they might mean besides their most obvious signification. But in this particular case, you were right. I should have given you a hint:

The sources can be easily named; and they actually sound quite trustworthy: Figure 48 is from a book by Debbie Nathan entitled "Pornography: A Groundwork Guide" [Berkeley, 2007] and it includes other fun facts such as the inequality in pay. Men earn about a tenth of what women make in the business; I wonder why no one ever mentions that when we talk about the 23 percent difference in pay that women are facing until this very day in most other, nonpornographic jobs.

Second, the film historic who comments on the Christian women who like to watch porn online, I believe, is David J. Skal. I don remember the exact statement but he says it at the very end of a 2006 documentary on American Stag Film that also features porn scholar Linda Williams and independent film maker Barbara Hammer. The documentary is really worth seeing, by the way. All of the "talking heads" all are in favor of porn and they argue exactly the way you do: That the freedom to see and produce sex acts on screen is a very important right not to be underestimated.

I will not dive into an analysis of Tiger Wood at this point as too many people have already felt the need to do so. I also don know what role porn played in this whole scandal of unfaithfulness. But I do know that the porn industry didn wait long to happily start making money off of it:

Now both of ya just hold it a minute. I think it useless bantering backandforth in a language already topheavy and overloaded with maleaffirmative wordstructures and other linguistic/semantic quirks generated out of our (America descent from the european, westernwhitemaledominant template or paradigm, take yer pick. It all in HOW you say it, like statistics, words can be bent and their meaning forged into hooks that rip the flesh off of humanity. Female and male.

And so, we must approach this subject on our knees, with respect and reverence and a good lawyer and maybe a remote cabin where we can dismember the body. Old orchards can be good: not too stony, easy digging.

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