Home
  • About us
  • Calendar
  • THE PUBLIC SQUARE
  • Links
  • Search

Navigation

  • Track sex-related legislation (Safari-only right now)
  • Recent activity
  • Add Something New!

User login

  • Create new account
  • Request new password

SPEAK OUT!!

Contact the Media

Be heard on the issues that matter most to you!

Our Feeds...

 Whole Site Feed

 Calendar Feed

 Comments Feed

Who's online

There are currently 2 users and 3 guests online.

Online users

  • Elizabeth
  • Chris
Home » Where are the guys? Men's concerns in porn & sex work.

Maybe it's just me....

Submitted by barkingstar on 28 March 2008 - 12:06pm.

These questions probably have to do w/ me as much as men in the sex industry, per se.  I'm a fairly good looking guy, but I certainly DON'T fit the image of "male" portrayed in most porn.  And the fact that I think the majority of women find me attractive, just MIGHT, point to WHY women don't watch porn.  Although that just may be my stupid ego talking! ha!  

I noticed that a few of the questions on the "comments" section to Diane Sawyer's 20/20 story on prostitutes were about male prostitutes & women customers.  From what I know, women just don't hire male prostitutes.  Most of the male prostitutes are gay, bisexual, or are "gay for pay."  And, NO, there's NOTHING wrong with that.  But maybe I'm wrong?  Maybe women DO buy male prostitutes, but the vast majority of people are just too incredulous at the idea that women might, JUST MIGHT, get as horny as men & buy sex.

Look at the ratio of male customer oriented strip clubs compared to female customer oriented strip clubs: like 20 to 1.  Why is that?  

These issues sort of dovetail w/ the whole "do women like porn?" or even "do women like sex as much as men?" sort of questions.  I mean we keep hearing/reading the same old cliches that "women aren't as visual/sexual" as men, yet so many feminists, sex therapists/educators seem to be saying the EXACT opposite.  Could it be that women just don't like what they see being produced as far as sexual entertainment goes?  Why do women go nuts for rock stars, but seem bored w/ porn?  

Maybe these questions just scratch the surface of the disorientation, double standards, and sex phobic society we live in?  

AT LEAST I'M ASKING & RESEARCHING!   

Reply

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <p> <br /> <img>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

This site powered by Drupal!


Unless otherwise marked, work on SexInThePublicSquare.org work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Permission required for commercial uses.

Header image created by Jolene Collins using works that are public domain or licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, Share-alike licenses. From left to right, images are credited to: Will Van Dorp, unknown origin found on Pawel Wojcik's "Grandfather's Girls", Richard Eriksson, Kaitlyn Tikkun. Background image by Robert Gourley