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                                              December 02, 2002
There are a few ways of               Rev:    July     16, 2006
phrasing the question.                Rev:    January  20, 2007

One is "what does the
popularity of porn
among men say about
them"?

   The other is
   "why is it so
   unpopular with
   so many women?"        Though, the presumption
                          that most women don't
                          like it may already
I of course, can't        seem quaint.
claim to know.                                      It's almost
                                                    conventional
I can think of                                      wisdom now:
a lot of                                            porn is going
possibilities:                                      "mainstream".

   (1) More women would like porn, except                    If so, that
   that they've been conditioned to think                    might be
   that they should not, so they avoid it                    taken as a
   completely.                                               retroactive
                                                             indication
   Variants:                                                 that 1(b)
                                                             was closest.
      (a) The conditioning is so strong
      that they feel a severe revulsion
      when they see any form of porn.

      (b) They in fact really do find porn
      somewhat attractive, but feel they're
      required to say that they don't.

   (2) There are some subtle and not so subtle
   differences in the kind of porn that
   appeals to men and to women, and the porn
   industry has just never learned what would
   sell to women.

   (3) Women really *do* like porn, it's just
   of a slightly different variety that goes
   under different labels e.g. "romance
   novels", or Hollywood movies like "9 1/2
   weeks" or "Fatal Attraction".


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