Spring Break
The ins and outs of porn: Girls can play like the boys do
That's what she said
Issue date: 10/25/07
It's well-established that the Internet is for porn. It's also pretty well-established that the Internet is for both genders. It would seem that porn is just as much for girls as it is for boys.
There is no biological, psychological or social reason girls shouldn't be as lecherous as the opposite sex. Thankfully social stigmas are fading. Women are allowed to be promiscuous, masturbate if they so choose and even leave the kitchen. Clearly we're also allowed to watch and enjoy porn. There are some problems with the porn industry that make it less enticing for women - things that discourage women from watching certain genres - since it was, after all, designed for men.
Pin-up style porn has the most aesthetic value, followed by artistic photographs, then plain photographs and last by videos. It really seems like some aspects of the porn industry are doing a significant damage and disservice to women. Between the hardcore industry and all its video glory and the soft-core industry and its not-too-innocent pop-ups, women are exposed to various unsavory, potentially harmful and generally tasteless acts.
For one, hardcore porn does far too much to glorify the less proper aspects of a sexual union - not only is sodomy glorified as some sort of significant sign of submission, it's practically legitimatized as a fifth base, the pinnacle of all sexual acts. It's not. If that's what you and your consenting partner are into, that's fine. But in no way is it a safe, practical, hygienic or religiously permissible thing. I can't say whether it's pleasurable, but I'm pretty sure you can subsist on the safer types of intercourse. Regardless of the superficial characteristics, it's a fact that anal sex affords more opportunities for bacterial infections and the transmission of several STIs than vaginal intercourse.
One of the other major issues with porn, is the illusion that the blowjob is the ultimate show of affection and/or submission. As it happens, this is not the case. Oral sex is foreplay, by definition, and isn't so much a sign of submission as it is simple degradation. It's true that most girls don't mind it; some even enjoy it, but without the extensive quantity of videos on the Internet putting this slightly pointless act on a pedestal, there would be fewer requests and certainly lower expectations.
There is no biological, psychological or social reason girls shouldn't be as lecherous as the opposite sex. Thankfully social stigmas are fading. Women are allowed to be promiscuous, masturbate if they so choose and even leave the kitchen. Clearly we're also allowed to watch and enjoy porn. There are some problems with the porn industry that make it less enticing for women - things that discourage women from watching certain genres - since it was, after all, designed for men.
Pin-up style porn has the most aesthetic value, followed by artistic photographs, then plain photographs and last by videos. It really seems like some aspects of the porn industry are doing a significant damage and disservice to women. Between the hardcore industry and all its video glory and the soft-core industry and its not-too-innocent pop-ups, women are exposed to various unsavory, potentially harmful and generally tasteless acts.
For one, hardcore porn does far too much to glorify the less proper aspects of a sexual union - not only is sodomy glorified as some sort of significant sign of submission, it's practically legitimatized as a fifth base, the pinnacle of all sexual acts. It's not. If that's what you and your consenting partner are into, that's fine. But in no way is it a safe, practical, hygienic or religiously permissible thing. I can't say whether it's pleasurable, but I'm pretty sure you can subsist on the safer types of intercourse. Regardless of the superficial characteristics, it's a fact that anal sex affords more opportunities for bacterial infections and the transmission of several STIs than vaginal intercourse.
One of the other major issues with porn, is the illusion that the blowjob is the ultimate show of affection and/or submission. As it happens, this is not the case. Oral sex is foreplay, by definition, and isn't so much a sign of submission as it is simple degradation. It's true that most girls don't mind it; some even enjoy it, but without the extensive quantity of videos on the Internet putting this slightly pointless act on a pedestal, there would be fewer requests and certainly lower expectations.