Shopping Advice 
Porn on Oprah, part 2
Top five reasons why today’s (11/17) Oprah episode about porn blew me away:
- Oprah lays it out right off the bat: 30% of porn consumers are women, and 70% of those women watch it in secret.
- Reporter Lisa Ling talks about pay inequity, but a good kind: porn is one of the only industries where women make more money than men.
- Author Violet Blue says “erotica can be as reliable a tool as a sex toy, and should be in any woman’s sexual arsenal.”
- Jenna Jameson says if she had it to do over again, she wouldn’t get a boob job, referring to the constant tanning, waxing, and other maintenance as the “monsterification of the body.”
- Violet plugs Jenna’s movie the Masseuse, which is a really great movie and one you all should see.
The show really focused on why women watch it, how it enhances one’s fantasy life, and how women are increasingly running the show (as stars, directors, businesswomen). This was not your typical coverage of women and porn, which usually focuses on stereotypes and overlooks any value porn has in one’s sex life. See clips from the show.
November 21st, 2009 at 2:19 pm
“Reporter Lisa Ling talks about pay inequity, but a good kind: porn is one of the only industries where women make more money than men.”
How can a pay inequity be considered a good thing, regardless of the genders involved. Yes, in the long lamented past, women got short shrift in the porn industry. Now in a world where we are supposed to be striving toward equity, it seems that the only true equity is one where men in the present have to be disadvantaged in order to pay for the plight of women who were disadvantaged in the past.
But then this is Oprah Winfrey; a woman whose financial and media empire has been based upon emasculation and misandry.