porn for women

I really enjoyed these paragraphs on the complications of producing porn for women in this in-depth review of Filament magazine:

The question isn't whether women want porn but what sort of porn to give them. That whole business of women not being "visual" has always rubbed me the wrong way (heh) and in today's highly interactive environment, we are all increasingly attuned to imagery. I've held that if women were provided with smut that didn't insult our intelligence or mistake us for gay men, we would be consumers as avid as our male counterparts. So what sort of porn might fit this bill?

Men have been acculturated to find a stereotypical female attractive: a petite, young, slender blonde with big boobs. Mind you, this is a generalization; thankfully plenty of men appreciate women of all shapes and sizes. But women's taste in men is all over the map: older or younger, slender or beefy, muscular or androgynous, hirsute or hairless. So who to photograph for a porn pictorial? And, correspondingly, whose fantasies to depict?

These questions have fascinating implications for spanking porn, where the norms are somewhat different. We are used to seeing a much wider range of female spanking models than male, and while there are several attractive male tops and bottoms, very little spanking porn presents the male actors as objects of desire. Is there as much variety in the physical type of male bottom or male top that kinky women find attractive as for our vanilla counterparts?

In my communicatons with Ms. Singh, the first thing I wanted to know was how sales were going. "Sales have been growing steadily with each issue," she informed me. "It's a killingly difficult market; we're trying to give something to women that they're constantly being told they shouldn't want, so it was never going to be easy."

I too am aiming to provide something to women that they're constantly being told they shouldn't want - visual female-gaze erotica where the men are there to be looked at as much as the women.

In my case, however, I also believe that this will be appealing to kinky men, especially male bottoms who are frustrated with the characterless, unjust representation they get in most spanking porn. I don't expect it to be easy, either. But I do think it will be worth it.