[Michael Chui]

Sally, you're still missing his point.

The current state of porn is that the porn is crap. Probably 95% of it. I generally enjoy reading erotic literature more than I enjoy photographs and movies, and even there, it's mostly crap. (Though I will say there are some stellar authors out there, with excellent writing skills, who ply their trade to erotic fiction. Quite nice. They can be very good at sharing the personality of the characters, and then taking you through their lovemaking.)

Having noted that porn is currently un-redeemed, that it is generally trash, why would it matter that it is equally crappy for both genders? Is it better to insist on equality, or to understand and explore it before demanding an abstract ideal? Should we have videos of men being raped? (Which, by the way, exist. One that I watched perhaps 9-10 years ago was distinctly creepy. I couldn't decide if it was erotic or just... odd. But then again, I'm not into leather, so it probably just didn't touch the right triggers. Come to think of it, it probably fired off all the wrong triggers.)

My personal opinion, however, is that there is already a porn geared for women which features just the sort of things that turn many of them on. They're called romance novels. As was mentioned much earlier in the thread, women generally have better imaginations. Why leave evidence lying around?

The human species was set up such that the males had control of most of the resources; unsurprisingly, then, male regard for the female is her physical health. But vice versa, it suggests that female regard for the male is for his possessions, or at least access to them for the purpose of child-rearing. I can't quite back that up, not without plunging deep into territory I only read one book about. And naturally, this is only biological, not cultural.

You do not ask for equality in situations where it means going downhill. It is wrong to race to the bottom. It is, in a sense, stating that if men are to be crude, mindless, and base, then women should be, too. I don't know about you, but that feels to me to be a greater transgression than any.

I'd rather see more mainstream acceptance of sexuality, and the subsequent understanding of what differences there may be between male and female sexual drives, and then ask the question of why there isn't porn geared towards heterosexual females, if there indeed isn't any.