Sex Porn Videos Don't Make Sex Objects
A study to be published in the reliable international “journal of Sex Research” approached a very instigating issue: do the porn videos treat women like sex objects?
To find out the truth, it was analyzed 50 of the bestselling pornographic videos in Australia.
Alan McKee, a professor at the Queensland University (who led the study) took some specific things into account to provide a final verdict:
Whose pleasure was paid attention to, which got to speak about what they wanted during sex, who initiated the sex itself and whose perspective the videos were presented from.
The surprising findings are part of a three-year government and depicted how powerful and capable of being in charge, women are.
“We were surprised at just how active and in control the women were in these videos. This study suggests that mainstream pornography in Australia doesn't represent women as sex objects, it shows them as active sexual agents.” said McKee.
He also affirmed that those initial results had shattered the "dirty old man in a trench coat" stereotype of pornographic consumers. Of the 320 respondents who said they used mainstream porn, 20 per cent were younger women, 33 per cent were married, 93 per cent believed in gender equality and 63 per cent considered themselves to be religious and that most respondents were Liberal/National voters, which was interesting given those political parties were anti-porn.
This interesting study about pornography’s path will be released next year and written into a popular culture book with an executive summary to be given to the federal government.