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To: yendu bwam
I agree that in the experience of most people men are more controlled by their sex drive than women. However, the point I am trying to make is that I do not see clear evidence that this difference is innate and biological. It seems very possible that it is a matter of socialization.

I do know and acknowledge that there are biological differences between men and women. But I think we many times ascribe differences to biology when they are actually due to the way our society raises and treats the genders. For years, the term that someone throws "a ball or a punch like a girl" was used. In recent years, scientists have found that actually all children throw a ball in the same way when they start. However, fathers used to jump in and instruct the sons at a very early age. In recent years, this has happened with girls, and there is no difference between the sexes when they receive similar guidance. This is just one example where our experiences of what "most women are like" is due to culturalization.

I think this point is important because I think we have made a critical error in the past with beliefs such as women are naturally more peaceful and kind than men. Jezebel, Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, and the growing number of female criminals prove differently.

We are all human and all deal with a sin nature. We are all capable of degenerating to unbelievable lows and committing unspeakable horrors.

Adolescent girls go through a very intense, hormone-driven, boy-crazy stage; but they are given a thousand messages from their peers, their family, and society that such behavior is not acceptable and not tolerable. Thus, traditionally they have learned to control their sex drives and progress beyond this stage. Adolescent boys on the other hand receive messages that this state is the norm for the male and that they really aren't capable of maturing beyond this and aren't expected to be able to control themselves.

In regards to pornography consumption, it is fairly simple: Today's porno is by and large by men for men. It is not that women are immune. It simply is not designed to appeal to them. In recent years, some "sex therapists" have been designing "sex videos" to appeal to women's tastes. If the porno industry focused on making porno for women, their consumption would probably rise as well. However, I think for the most part it would be among young women. Women raised under the social pressures and having matured beyond this stage by and large see no appeal in returning to an adolescent stage. They have also quite clearly seen and experienced the devastation to both genders and to society caused by pornography.

I believe it is naive to underestimate the capacity of either gender to be degenerate, selfish, and animalistic.

460 posted on 06/18/2002 10:46:29 PM PDT by djreece
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To: djreece
In regards to pornography consumption, it is fairly simple: Today's porno is by and large by men for men. It is not that women are immune. It simply is not designed to appeal to them. In recent years, some "sex therapists" have been designing "sex videos" to appeal to women's tastes. If the porno industry focused on making porno for women, their consumption would probably rise as well.

Proposition: if porno was designed to appeal to women, the anti-porn crusader's ranks would diminish by half.

461 posted on 06/19/2002 11:21:23 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: djreece; Lorianne
If the porno industry focused on making porno for women, their consumption would probably rise as well

The way is already being prepared.

What do you think will happen 20 years from now, when an entire generation of women has been raised on Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and their ilk? Scarcely an issue gets printed without an article on improving one's fellating technique or "confessing" one's various sexual adventures to an audience of 12 million.

463 posted on 06/19/2002 10:10:26 PM PDT by cicero's_son
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