Women and porn: Why not?

According to research, published in “Psychology Today”, watching XXX movies creates a “short circuit” in their pleasure channels. The brain becomes accustomed to stimulation through porn, and responding in real life becomes increasingly difficult. Sexual pleasure is born in the brain when a substance called dopamine is secreted, which appears when faced with novelty or anxiety.

But where is the “surprise factor” when everything has already been seen? If a lot of sex is consumed online, erotic images in real life become less and less surprising. It happens like any other addiction: you constantly need the “drug” which, in this case, is pornography over the Internet. Without that stimulus, young addicts have a hard time maintaining an erection.

Yeah, porn has always been seen as bringing negativity and that’s normal because we can’t “whiten it.” But pornography is part of human life, whether we like it or not. Even in the lives of women! Today there is a tendency for women to be “increasingly involved” in the pornography industry, not only as objects but also as subjects and audiences. There is a fairly clear distinction between “object” and “subject”, for example when we talk about the camgirl business where the women are the “owners of the business themselves” who determine whether they will continue or stop. From year to year, there is an increase in demand for camgirl recordings which shows that this business niche has great potential in the future.

Today’s pornography is showing something that previously only existed in the clandestine male world of prostitutes and lovers. Never with the woman in your house. Now, they also dare to enable the same permissions in their sexuality. Time passed, the exchange of roles deepened, and, why not, that feminine indiscretion became inevitable, making us sniff out other worlds. Women’s awareness of how entitled they are to sex and how to control it has completely changed their perspective on the pornography industry. Being anti-pornography is not always a good thing because pornography is closely related to basic human biological needs, including women.

“Nothing happens to me with that, on the contrary, I dislike it, it makes me want to, it puts me in a bad mood. In principle, I don’t see the need, and if there is we are in the oven… It means that we don’t. We are enough stimulation between the two of us. On the other hand, it makes me sick that he gets eroticized with those girls that appear in those movies, and much worse when they get excited about each other, a horror! Also, don’t tell me that it’s not all fake. They told me that there are issues with cameras, lenses, and things like that, not to mention that they make them take kilos of Viagra and all kinds of pills so that they can last longer. Attention! Our society tends to ignore porn, considering it something private that does not interfere with other aspects of life. And it is not true, you have to be careful because porn is not just porn, it is a discourse, a way of talking about sex.”

This could be a typical discourse of the feminine model mythologized and crystallized according to the cultural expectations assigned to us. This concept is based on the fact that the erotic tendency of men is based, imprisoned by their anatomy, in the response to certain external triggers (mainly olfactory, visual, or auditory) or internal triggers (sexual fantasies), while it supposes to women associated with an eroticism linked to tenderness and love. This ideological position relegates transit through broader and expanded erotic fringes to women who are outside the accepted system: read, prostitutes.

Just as many social and cultural differences have been transformed and overturned due to the immense development of our gender in recent decades, the approach to sexuality and the possibilities granted to our desire have also expanded. There are many possibilities that can be explored by the pornography industry, especially with the presence of the internet in all aspects of human life.

These changes do not cancel differences but rather inequalities and allow the erotic resources of both genders to be added and integrated. Just as men have been able to develop their lovemaking potential – thanks to women’s right to express the forms of their desire – and today allow themselves to enjoy the erotic love prologue and thus untie themselves from their genital format, women are also able to allow themselves reveal our prejudices, play with our imagination and immerse ourselves in the game that pornography proposes as a sexual resource. The specific characteristics of porn aimed at female audiences are varied. On the one hand, there is the aesthetic factor: it is more careful in its aesthetics, less violent, and more delicate, it is encouraged to include humor and tell stories. All aspects seem to be made “smoother” than before.

​Although classic porn films maintain the basic format of “male riding female”, over the exhibition of the penis, and close-up accentuation of genital erogenous zones (breasts, buttocks, vulva), the inclusion of women as consumers generated changes. Today we find more elaborate porn, with greater argumentative content and a certain aesthetic development that adds significantly to the product. Perhaps the best example is the presence of LiveJasmin videos in recent years.

LiveJasmin is a webcam platform that facilitates “meetings” between models and audiences. Simply put, the platform provides a bridge for women (and also men and transgender people) to actively engage in their own porn content shared online and in real-time. The presence of such platforms is a game changer in the adult industry as it gives control to all parties, especially to women who make up the “majority” of models.

In short… In sexuality, everything that adds to the objective of mutual pleasure as long as it does not negatively affect any of the members of the couple, everything that expands and liberates, and everything that confronts the cultural tendency to constrain us erotically will always be welcome.