[lbo-talk] Noam on Porn

[John Thornton]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:12 PM, John Thornton wrote:
>
>> Lenin's Tomb wrote:
>>> I'm just alarmed by the energetic disavowals here.  I promise I'm 
>>> not trying
>>> to dampen anyone's ardour.
>>
>>
>> I'm just as alarmed by puritanical condemnations of fantasy sexual 
>> outlets.
>>
>> What percentage of porn is, in your words:
>>
>> "ass-spanking, slapping, name-calling, face-jizzing and various other 
>> techniques of asserting dominance"
>>
>> You write it is the majority but how do you know this?
>
> Years ago, when porn came out on VHS tapes, a friend of Dan Lazare's 
> made a point of classifying porn. He looked at thousands of tapes - he 
> was a connoisseur as well as a taxonomist - and concluded that the 
> genre that LT thinks is the norm is in fact the minority.
>
> There are so many different kinds that it's preposterous to claim that 
> it's mostly about male dominance of women. There's queer porn and 
> female-dominant porn too. Read Fleshbot for a few days and see.
>
> Speaking of Fleshbot, there's this, which is rather counterhegemonic:
>
> <http://fleshbot.com/5028378/the-bald-and-the-beautiful-shaved-head-girls-are-cool>. 
>
>
> Doug 

I recall a study from about 8 years ago of the top porn websites most 
popular downloads.
IIRC #1 was women on women and #2 was female solo.
I have no idea how accurate the study was but men dominating women 
wasn't on the list of top 10.

John Thornton