Excellent film that I need to see again!

Well played.

Please and thank you!!

I cannot resist...

The answer is hormones.

But, seriously, it is really, really boring.

Perhaps you've noticed all our back hair?

have MORE testosterone than estrogen.

Just men have WAY more testosterone than estrogen.

Fantasy and so on, we men get off on it.

Otherwise 50 Shades of Grey wouldn't be selling near as many copies. That said, lots of porn is aimed pretty squarely at men, so women tend to not dig it as much. There is porn aimed at women, couples, or at least recognize that men sometimes watch it with women, so maybe try convincing him to get stuff that does something for the both of you, instead of just himself.

A great love story, in print or film, is another matter.

Love is a tremendous pain in the butt. Give me a math textbook any day.

Porn not so much.

Love, at it's best, is still someone else asking me to dilute myself for them.


I'm not interested in that.

Huge difference in my mind...

Sorry about that brain thing.

I mean, facepalm hurts after awhile.

The thing that struck me about it was that it was, plot and language wise, very much like the stuff they want to sell to men.

Besides, I can barely get to the stuff I WANT to read, which isn't fiction. It's the stranger-than-fiction stuff - like the political stuff and links I always get from here. And I'm overloaded on that score, too! I don't have time for fiction. And I can get all of that I want from Pox Noise anyway.

There are two facts you need to understand.

1) Women generally read more books than men.

2) Stupidity and poor taste are equally distributed between the genders.

Combine these two facts, and you understand why the illusion of 50 Shades of Grey being especially popular with women is produced.

that scenario will never happen in my life. I can live vicariously, can't I?

I have friends, and my friends have friends, and many, many women are talking about and reading 50 Shades of Grey. BTW, I actually don't consider these books pornography. They are a well written love story, which certainly includes erotica. There is a huge difference.

Here's me, all the while thinking that 50SoG is exactly like the smut novels they write for men. In fact, I see no difference at all - especially in the writing which is just as poor as in the novels meant for men.

"His enormously long fingers" ... Come on. If this was written by a man for men this would serve as a favorite example of what is wrong with male-oriented porn amd erotica.

One thing I noticed when I worked in a book store was that all the new releases of romance novels flew off the shelves almost as soon as we put them up and the majority of the purchasers were middle-aged women old enough to be grandmothers.

and the 50 shades stuff. Women seem to have their own form of this stuff. Men are just cruder.

Then a documentary on................. Well, you know and it's a win-win!

eom

Addictive, numbing, and soulless. But sometimes we just wanna feel that rush, baby.

and love.

It's not necessarily mutually exclusive.

put down the mouse or remote and go get the real thing.........

I'm sure that isn't the main reason but it has to be part of it.

...there are not enough nudist camps. Really, wouldn't we all be better off with everyone being nude? Or would that be too pornish for some a one a you?

Something about looking like Quasimodo, Frankenstein's monster and Grendel had a very regrettable drunken three way.

Loved you since the day I met you...

I personally have no use for porn. I'm neither a teenager nor am I sex deprived. I'd much rather be doing it than watching it.

Besides, porn was much better when they actually tried to have a plot and dialog and all. Now it's just four straight hours of assfucking with no lead in or anything.

Sorry I agree with you 1000% but you kind of asked for that!

I'm assuming, from all the comments in this thread, that today is Write a Banal Stereotype Day, right?

Will you get that "special" tip or won't you?

You don't see that sort of thing anymore.

As we all know by now, if it lasts more than four hours, you gotta see your doctor right away.

and also find porn boring and stupid.

I find the Olympics boring. Go figure.

Come on, you don't watch all four hours.

"It was called High School"

The introduction of readily accessible internet porn just makes the job that much easier. Sometimes we just want the arousal.

Many studies have shown that there are differences between men and women sexually in that men are more easily turned on visually. Porn simply makes the job infinitely easier.

Would not be polite to let all their hard work go to waste

It's just common courtesy.

Let's get it on and over with so's I can sleep!

Maybe it has something to do with men enjoying visual stimulation sexually and women liking more of the mental imagery type that comes from books?

Gah, who knows. People shouldn't worry so much about what other people do in regards to their personal lives.

....until one night at college a girl suggested a group of us go rent one.

they don't talk back or need conversation. They don't demand the toilet seat be put down. They don't need foreplay. And they are there under the mattress anytime a need arises.

Jk...

and imagine all types of sexual activity with those women.

It provides a sort of stimulation that we just didn't experience in evolutionary history. It is also damaging for the same reasons, imho.

n/t

I feel about porn the way I do about most "taboo" things. The world would be well served by having healthy access and a regulated market. There's a lot out there that doesn't float my boat, and some that freaks me out, but as long as no one is hurt and people can figure out how to deal with how it might impact their lives I don't object.

When I am making The Beast With One Back, it hastens my arrival at... The Happy Place.

I didn't really say that... did I?

More people need to listen to that song, IMNSHO.

I found my ex's porn stash while I was cleaning. I put it back where I found it. Porn does nothing for me but I do know quite a few women who love it.

It's like religion and football. I don't get any of them but I'm perfectly tolerant of people who do. They can have my share.

On this topic, men and women are wired differently. You don't respond to porn the way men do, and short of massive hormone treatment, never will.

This is like me asking why women smell everything they are considering purchasing at the department store.

Obviously, a lot of women do enjoy porn and not every woman spends her time sniffing in department stores.

Sorta like saying Louisiana is full of ignorant religious freaks. You are painting with a huge brush.

I think it's a valid question.

something to toss off to. That's it.

As a man it's decidedly odd being the less porn-oriented partner in a relationship, but as long as everyone is happy it's good.

You sure you don't want to stick to meat eating threads?

All DU issues come through her at some point.

Check the TOS. It's in there.

Who's got a spare smoke?

tip your server...



RL

there was a time when porn had a plot, that got to the act. But going back centuries it was still the thing....

Although I don't like Waterboy, Beavis, etc. I like action films with lots of stuff flying around and impossible stunts. Also I love all Jackie Chan movies, especially the parts at the end. He's my hero.

And those scenes in Golden Eye. Pierce Brosnan does the thing on the side of the dam and gets inside and all of that and still manages to not get shot.

Then he's flying off a cliff on a motorcyle. Just so happens he lands inside a plane that just so happens has an open door that is going in a dive off the same cliff.

A lot of other really cool stuff happens in that movie. I could watch it over and over.

Hey, they made it work in the movie!

What can I say...

Is there something wrong with me?

So if there's a correlation, I'm not seeing it.

the homemade kind where it's just real people having fun.

Not that I'm into that either, but the fakey porn with bad script and bad acting is just NOT for me.

As long as its not legal and all parties are consenting adults, live and let live. Unlike some peoples fetishes with things like guns, no one is killed.

Next question?

even a lot of the supposedly natural breastesses on the so-called stars are enhanced. I'm not even talking about the obvious fake ones, but fairly natural ones who advertise themselves as natural have before/after pictures floating around that shows them smaller when they entered the business.

Not that it matters, I guess. But a lot of them sure go through a lot of work to be "fantasy" women.

Trust me.

My comment was more directed to those porn stars who advertise themselves as naturally large when it's clear they enhanced themselves as their career developed. Why would they say they are natural if they are really enhanced except for the fantasy aspect.

Both on screen and in person.

of SEX:

I dig you more than I dig root beer. Welcome to the wonderful world of SEXS@!

For solely cultural reasons, which are socially constructed and therefore apt to change.

Men's and Women's use of porn has been converging ever since the dawn of the internet and if things go on this way these marked differences will disappear. I find that my post-millenial friends show no marked difference in attitude toward porn - at least not one that is clearly based on gender.

and stimulated in different ways if you know what I mean

Getting rid of that overnight telltale coating of hand-hair feels terrific. The only problem is that it's tough to see, what with the failing eyesight.

He told us what men are REALLY thinking:

"I'd like a beer, and I'd like to see somethin' nekkid."

And there you have it.

few questions,,, many answers await

Men don't really "watch" porn, more like, um, well, they masturbate to it

Some women masturbate to porn too

Some men don't, and some women don't

I'm a visual guy, and I like the look of normal women my age (30-49) so naturally I'm a big fan of the amateur wife post type stuff.

But that's just me. Stretch marks and cellulite can turn me on

First class Character Development and a finely tuned clockwork-like screenplay, that one.

Where is the problem?