Women tuning in to porn‚ says French study Challenges the myth that it's a man's thing Added At: 2012-11-23 10:31 PM Last Updated At: 2012-11-23 10:31 PM
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE PARIS: Who said porn was a man’s thing? A study released today challenges the myth, showing that four fifths of French women have watched a porn movie before — one in two of them without their partners. Fully 82 per cent of women questioned said they had watched an X-rated film at least once before, compared to 99 per cent of men, according to the study of 579 women carried out by the IFOP polling institute in September. Their number has jumped from 73 per cent in 2006, and from as little as 23 per cent in 1992 according to a major INSERM study on French sexuality carried out at the time, IFOP’s Francois Kraus told AFP. “In the space of a few years it has become an accepted thing for women to watch pornography, partly thanks to the Internet, and video-on-demand services that made porn more accessible and took away the shame factor,” he said. Sixty two per cent of women said they watched porn to spice up their sex life with a partner, but fully one in two had also done so on their own. “Women are now consuming porn by themselves,” Kraus said. “That goes hand in hand with a widening of sexual behaviour, and changing attitudes towards sex toys or fellatio for instance.” So what do women make of the films on offer? Women attached most importance to a natural-looking cast, a priority for 40 per cent, while ‘realistic’ sex scenes were essential for 35 per cent, and for 48 per cent of under 35-year-olds. Most women felt strongly that the industry caters only to male fantasies, a view shared by 71 of women against 61 per cent of men. Likewise 72 per cent felt the films on offer were ‘highly degrading’ to women, against 50 per cent of men, and 57 per cent said they were too violent, compared to 41 per cent of men. Overall, women were still far less assiduous watchers than men, with only five per cent of porn consumers watching frequently — once a month or more — against 34 per cent of men. Another 13 per cent watched a few times a year, compared to 29 per cent of men. Frequent women viewers were younger, making up 17 per cent of under-25s against less than five per cent of the over-35s. And women with no sex experience were the most eager, making up a third of all regular viewers. The study was based on a representative sample of 1,101 people aged 18 and over. http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNe ... sID=355370Holy Uncle Posts: 6846 Joined: Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:29 am [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
