More women watching porn

It is with a bit of trepidation that I post this but heck, it was an interesting read. The headline on CNN caught my attention.

The article was written by a woman, Violet Blue, in the Oprah Magazine. Anything from Oprah has to be acceptable, doesn’t it?

Blue writes, “the fact is, millions of women use and enjoy ‘explicit sexual imagery.’” That phrase “explicit sexual imagery” intrigued me as a marvelous alternative way of referring to pornographic images. It would have made Frank Luntz proud. Luntz is the author of Words That Work, It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear.

“In the first three months of 2007, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, approximately one in three visitors to adult entertainment Web sites was female; during the same period, nearly 13 million American women were checking out porn online at least once each month,” Blue points out.

Not only that but

Theresa Flynt, vice president of marketing for Hustler video, says that women account for 56 percent of business at her company’s video stores. “And the female audience is increasing,” she adds. “Women are buying more porn.” (They’re creating more of it, too: Female director Candida Royalle’s hard-core erotic videos, made expressly for women viewers, sell at the rate of approximately 10,000 copies a month.)

For a man it may be somewhat shocking that women might use Hustler as a viewing source. But times have changed over the decades. I suppose porn viewing has become a co-ed exercise.

I don’t want to get too clinical here but the effect of porn on men and women has been scientifically studied.

In a 2006 study at McGill University, researchers monitored genital temperature changes to measure sexual arousal and found that, when shown porn clips, men and women alike began displaying arousal within 30 seconds; men reached maximum arousal in about 11 minutes, women in about 12 (a statistically negligible difference, according to the study).

I’ll leave all this to you. I think I’ll run down to the local Pahrump Adult Superstore (it is just across the street from WalMart) and see if I can find something to rejuvenate my own sex life. Maybe Lillie will come along with me.

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