The reality is, women are sexual beings that can be drawn in by pornography just like men. And like guys, sometimes this natural attraction to porn can develop into a full-blown struggle. In fact, we have gotten thousands of emails from struggling girls and women that are dealing with compulsively watching or reading pornographic material. But porn is also a problem for women in another way—it objectifies, humiliates, degrades, and exploits them unapologetically, while the industry claims to simultaneously be a champion for women.
In the past couple years, lesbian porn has emerged as a popular search term for millennial women. It's the most sought category for Pornhub's female viewers , and of 4, readers surveyed by Cosmopolitan. In this week's Sex Talk Realness, we reached out to straight women who watch lesbian porn to see what draws them to the genre, and how it impacts their sexuality. Woman A: ish. Woman A: I am in an exclusive but undefined relationship with a dude.
July 17, report. A small team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics has found evidence that suggests the female brain responds to pornography in the same ways as the male brain. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , the researchers describe their analysis of data from thousands of MRIs taken while volunteers viewed porn and what they learned from it. Most people would agree that men are more interested in viewing pornography than women. And statistics would seem to back up such views—the bulk of people watching porn online are male.
Feminist views on pornography range from condemnation of all of it as a form of violence against women , to an embracing of some forms as a medium of feminist expression. This debate reflects larger concerns surrounding feminist views on sexuality , and is closely related to those on prostitution , on BDSM , and other issues. Pornography has been one of the most divisive issues in feminism , particularly in anglophone English-speaking countries. This deep division was exemplified in the feminist sex wars of the s, which pitted anti-pornography activists against sex-positive ones.