Women Prefer Gay Porn Over “Female Friendly” Porn

I read a post on HuffPo which mentioned that women prefer watching gay porn – lesbian porn or gay male porn – over “female friendly” straight porn, and I found that fact very interesting. (If true, but the stats are coming from PornHub which would be a good source of data; the only thing that might skew it is if there are still lots of men out there claiming to be women when they sign up for porn sites.) The post has an infographic illustrating the type of porn women (and men) are watching, as well as one illustrating the type of porn they’re searching for; between those two infographics it’s an interesting picture of male/female porn habits. At least, their habits on PornHub, but I’m guessing it’s probably similar on any porn site.

How Porn Impacts Us, Part 3 (long): “Context”

I’m not sure I would have chosen the title Context for this post – though context is part of what I’ll be talking about – but I’m writing at least in part in reaction to a post from Danny Wylde with the same title on Boinkology so I’ll go with it. This is not a direct response to Danny’s post, I’m not trying to start an argument, but we’re coming at an issue from different angles, and, yes, there are some things in the post I disagree with. (It’s just as well that I’m not trying to start an argument, since I doubt Mr. Wylde will ever see this in the first place. An argument with only one participant is a lonely argument indeed.)

I’ve been writing about porn’s impact on us (from a purely amateur, “armchair sociologist” point of view), and I don’t think any discussion of porn’s impact on society would be complete without a discussion on whether and how our consumption of porn impacts our views on sex. Do the images and videos we see on our laptops and tablets and smartphones colour the way we think about or carry out activities in the bedroom? Do the depictions of sex we consume impact our views of the real thing?