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Originally Posted by jay santos
Theory is good, but I'll take empirical evidence. Male viewers of porn outnumber women 5:1 maybe more. It's a really tough sell to write this up to cultural acceptance.
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There are plenty of scientific studies out there on visuality. Advertisers, for one, have been testing pupil response for years. There's even been a very interesting study that showed that when women are ovulating they prefer pictures of males with particular features. Moreover, the "primate" centered non-verbal communication material reveals significant biological components.
Porn has long been marked as masculine and has catered to masculine tastes. I would even argue that it's current form may privelige male sexuality. It still has a strong cultural stigma, and an additional one for women. The fact that the number of women who view it has gone up astronomically in recent years suggests that the additional cultural stigma women experience may be waning. This could be an emergence of the greater acceptance of a female gaze (and by females too), or an intensification of their experience in the male gaze.