PornSexual Orientation: Porn Dependent Sexuality in the Digital Age: Porn is the new sexuality: 1

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There are not enough words to describe how grateful I am for the next person, my Mum, Mumma Maxine and my best friend. Thank you for forever being at the end of the phone, supportive through all the tough times and keeping me focused throughout the last 4 years. I wanted to make you the proudest Mumma this year, and I really hope I have. Researchers suggest this could be because woman are more likely to watch porn with their partner, instead of alone; and men typically watch less consensual sex acts when watching alone. Another study found that those who watched porn with their partners reported feeling more dedicated and sexually satisfied in their relationship compared to those who watched it alone. The three critical areas of focus I explore are the views of anti-pornography feminist activists and questioning their strategies on how to stop the objectification of women in Porn. I explore societies perceptions of female sexuality and question if Feminist Pornography could make a significant impact on social attitudes to Porn, female sexuality and sex. Lastly, I have explored what defines the Female gaze, the benefits of it, and if there is a gender difference in the gaze used. Price, J. et al. (2016). How much more XXX is Generation X consuming? Evidence of changing attitudes and behaviors related to pornography since 1973. Edelman, L. (2004). No future: Queer theory and the death drive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

So should you stop watching porn in fear of being labeled a pornsexual? Nah. But like with most things, moderation is the key. Gray, M. L. (2009). Out in the country: Youth, media, and queer visibility in rural America. New York: NYU Press. Rubin, G. (199 Jagger, A. M. (1994) Living With Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics. Colorado: Westview Press Inc. To start off “Sexuality refers to an ensemble of anatomical organs, bodily zones, persons, objects, behaviours, ideas, knowledge, fantasies, sensations, desires and consciousness centred around the genitalia and genital pleasure.” (Jubber, 1991:29). One way of exploring the role of Feminist Pornography would be to look specifically at the effect of Feminist Porn in changing societies perceptions of sex and female sexuality. In this chapter I am looking to understand whether or not it can have an effect once it is compared to evidence from historical to current views of female sexuality, how people respond to Feminist Pornography and how it overall has and can affect women.

This most recent article focuses on pornography's effects on men specifically. Has similar research been conducted on its effects on women? Do you think pornography has a similar effect on women?

Hammer, B. (1993). The politics of abstraction. In M. Gever, P. Parmar, & J. Greyson (Eds.), Queer looks: Perspectives on lesbian and gay film and video (pp. 70–75). New York: Routledge.

Rodgerson, G., & Wilson, E. (1991). Pornography and feminism: The case against censorship by feminists against censorship. London: Lawrence & Wishart.Paasonen, S. (2010). Labors of love: Netporn, Web 2.0 and the meanings of amateurism. New Media & Society, 12, 297–1312. The question is if a woman is behind the lens, does this change the gaze? My answer is not necessarily as the female photographer Lone Mørch explained “our gaze is never without power, it is never neutral, it is informed by our experiences and conditioning. Our biases and our beliefs, our preferences and agendas, and also how we feel and see about ourselves” ( TEDx Talks, 2019). This suggests the gaze of the person watching is not dependent on gender, instead it is social construction. We are conditioned to conform to roles, women are nurturing and thought-provoking, men are objective and logical. This has transferred into who holds the gaze and why a female perspective may be refreshing. Not all male directors have the same values, in the film, Carol, the male director Todd Haynes focused his research around underground female photographers of the ’50s which Cate Blanchet therefore felt was a “very female gaze he was using in the piece” (Vanity Fair, 2016). So the real question is not about whether the gaze is changed by gender but instead does your gaze as the reader limit or liberate the one you are watching?