Would like to read people's thoughts on this..

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Just reading a topic then which included a woman being angry about her husband watching porn - and confronting him about it.

What's your stance on it? Do you 'ban' your other half from watching it? Do you let it slide or maybe you enjoy it with him/her?

Personally I dont see any harm. It's natural in my eyes. If fella rather did watch it alone I wouldn't mind. And I enjoy watching it from time to time with him. Dunno if that's openmindedness or weird...?

Sorry if someone of you disapprove if the subject matter but hey ho.

Im the same as AwkwardMary, always been sexually liberal, done things I'd never admit to on here ;) I used to enjoy using porn solo and with partners and then I started working with women who work in the sex industry (dont even like that phrase as it seems to legitimise it), once you understand the dynamics of how these women end up making the 'choice' to work in the sex industry its not so easy to derive any pleasure from it.

I feel a lot of things for women in the porn business, jealousy or envy is not one of them I'm afraid.

Fortunately my current partner works in a similar role to me and shares a similar world view, so we find other filthy pastimes that dont rely on the exploitation of others.

Yes and OP many of those women who get "Pounded" in their vaginas and anuses are severely injured in the process.

You don't see that bit of course.

Women who defend porn always point out how they are able to get aroused through watching it (alone or with partners) as if this makes them entirely different (and it's implied more sexually advanced) creatures to women who are against porn. it seems as if they think women who are against porn are threatened or intimidated by women in porn films or that they are simply not sexual enough to 'get it'.

Many women who are against porn and who abstain from watching it have in the past got aroused and very turned on from watching, many still could. It is an absolute myth that men are 'more visual' than women - that comes from very old, very flawed 'research'. The more scientific recent research where they measured arousal (bloodflow to genitals, brain patterns etc) showed that women are equally as turned on by sexual images as men. It is natural to be turned on by depictions of sex, but that does not mean that porn is 'natural' nor does it mean that just because you could get aroused by porn that you will think it OK or choose to watch it.

can i just say how encouraged i am by this thread. i know there have been many on mn but after coming out of a relationship where exp gave a good impression of being enlightened is probably wanking over 'couples seduce teens' right now i need to hear all the educated, reasoned anti porn comments all over again - just because it gives me conviction that i dont just dislike porn because i have 'issues' ha ha

May I point out that porn stories are quite different to filmed porn, as they are all in the imagination. The little porn I watched I found a bit yucky, I needed a plot, I used to read the occasional woman's porn (Black Swan was it?) and found that arousing because I was identifying with the central character, which is after all how fiction works. In written porn, no-one gets hurt or degrading in the making of the material.

erotic fiction - of course - totally different concept :-)