Quote - Why all the naked V4's? It's quite simple. Male artists tend to like pretty girls in the nude. Females are not as visually "wired" as are the males, so they tend to be more atuned to context than to content per se. To use the "Men are from Mars Women are from Venus" idea, men are about getting things done; women are about how they FEEL about what was done.

Again, no judgements passed. This is why renders of nude men don't get a lot of female following, while a render like DPH described probably would. This is why the vast majority of porn users are male. Males: "ger 'er done!" Females: "What did it mean to YOU?"

Yes, I have known exceptions to these generalizations, but I contend they ARE exceptions.

$.02, take it or leave it. I'm fine either way.

The doing/feeling thing -- I guess everyone I know is an exception. C'mon. You can't be serious. When it comes to housework and childcare, I guarantee it isn't men (in most families in the world) who are doing most of the "doing" part. No, instead you hear men saying that they want time with their families so they can "get close to their children and watch them grow up." Meanwhile (in most families around the world), women are the ones who are doing the work to actually keep the little buggers alive.

Men are "doing" the paid work. Women are "doing" the unpaid work. Lots of "doing" on both sides.

Sorry to say, even if it's an unpleasant thing to swallow, we all come from planet earth. :)

Lots of women don't like porn and are actively against it, and understandably so, since so much of it is degrading or borderline violent. Women also tend to attend religious institutions more frequently than men. That's a social/political stance, and it often extends to viewing nudity or sexually suggestive still images.

But, if we limit ourselves to women who don't have a social or political objection to porn, we'll get a better idea of innate differences. I think if we do that we'll find out very quickly that porn doesn't appeal to many women because it's not manufactured according to female tastes and desires, and that's not really a matter of being 'less visual.' It's a matter of not showing women what they want to see.

If when I am perusing the porn selections almost every thing I find shows me only the groin, hands, feet, knees, and buttocks of a middle-aged, overly hairy, and out of shape person, I am going to lose interest.

The best porn creates a fantasy in which the viewers can put themselves into the action vicarioiusly. By showing as little of the man as possible and concentrating on the woman, heterosexual porn caters to male desire.

However, what turns women on is seeing men getting turned on (facial expressions, especially, but also verbal and auditory expression, but generally NOT closeups of genitals -- hence the enjoyment of romance and its trappings because it's a very very emphatic expression of male desire), but unless you're watching gay porn (which lots of women do watch despite the fixation on genital closeups -- they just don't tell anyone about it), you don't usually get to see very many detailed images of hot men enjoying themselves.

There are other differences. The few studies that have been done on this seem to suggest that men prefer to switch from one scenario to another about every 20 seconds, whereas women prefer to stay with a single scene that is suggestive of a storyline. Whether that implies anything else is another matter entirely.

To summarize, it just ain't so simple... :)

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