to LOATHE the term "mommy porn"?

[GhostOfAWasp]

I mean, wtf is it exactly? I can't even articulate why I find the term so offensive, other than it just sounds really perjorative and patronising. Is this just me?

no different really to property porn or food porn, which are both regularly used on this site to describe things...

I don't like those terms either

perhaps there's a common theme

I would have thought Mommy porn was flicking through the Lakeland catalogue with your credit card in your hand. That's what it means to me.

i thought this thread was about those adult channels like xxxmums now that does make me feel ill!

no different from property porn etc though is it?

I can't imagine that there's a particular type of erotica that's more appealing to mothers than to other women. So there already was a perfectly serviceable description: "erotica for women". To attach "Mommy" to the concept is patronising and distasteful.

I dunno, I think it is different to property porn for the reasons jodieharsh outlined; I really feel it us being used in a misogynistic way...

squeaky it's totes different from property porn or food porn! "Mommy Porn" means porn FOR 'Mommies' .

Property porn means porn for people about properties. Or else property porn would be, I dunno, powerpoint presentations about internal electrical wiring systems or something

I realise all of that was punishingly obvious but I'm posting it anyway, cos it took ages to type owing to having moist fingernails. NO NOT LIKE THAT!

I mean - although I hate the term - I can understand the use of "Mom lit" in the same vein as (urgh) "chick lit". It's stories about motherhood, aimed at women who will relate to the experience. But "Mommy Porn" has - please God - nothing to do with motherhood.

mommy porn i thought it was like property porn but mummies drooling over baby equipment I hate the term mommy more than porn
, some media type has coined a phrase women have been reading heaving busom novels for decades its not a new thing .
MY nana used to read barabara cartland and mills and boon at 70 and i was shocked to find her devouring a jackie collins while she was in hospital

IMO, 50 shades is mummy porn simply because there are staff on tap, with no need for housework, financial planning, any real kind of forward planning in fact, plus cinderella-type clothes dumps for our heroine when she needs clothes. I read those boks at high speed, skipping out all the so-called sex and just beavring along for the next outrageously lazy plot development/wealth stroke. And I have to say the wealth bits probably did dilate my pupils and cause me to fluish and get oh-so- a little excited. Still invidious, unpleasant shit though.

boks=books or possibly =boaks in this case

I don't know if I'm broken or something but the sex scenes in that book didn't do a thing for me- and as far as the s&m went, it all just seemed a bit tame compared to some filthy Victorian stuff I've read....

Ghost, you are not broken

that book is absolute shite

I simply could not see past the godawful writing

If you're broken I am too, Ghost! There's a bit in The French Lieutenant's Woman where after months of suppressed Victorian yearnings and forbidden stolen glances, they finally Get To It and the lad loses a button off his waistcoat and it clatters to the floor. I swear, that scene alone was hotter than every page of that tripe put together.

Incidentally if anyone wants some quality muck read Brass by Helen Walsh. It's as if Dickens was a brilliant, beautiful, vulnerable but foul-mouthed and dysfunctional 20th century teenaged Liverpudlian girl with a fascination for hookers

Disclaimer: the above is not indicative of my political/feminist stance on se workers.

*sex!

The X on my keyboard keeps sticking.