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"It is, perhaps, ironic that the legacy of the 'sex wars' that divided feminists in the 1970s and 1980s should be a vibrant, rich, and diverse body of lesbian erotic art. It is also worthy of note that no comparable body of work produced by heterosexual women exists." -- Tamsin Wilton, in the gbltq encyclopedia entry, Erotic and Pornographic Art: Lesbian (third page).

A related quote from the first page of the entry: "The commercial failure of soft porn magazines aimed at heterosexual women suggests that there is widespread ignorance about what arouses women, and a substantial body of sexological research suggests that this ignorance extends to women themselves."

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Did they overlook the folks selling romance novels?

Will

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I don't know. I don't consider myself qualified to judge the accuracy of their assertion, but thought it was an interesting claim (and in line with certain "conventional wisdom"), and that quoting it just might elicit contrary evidence if it was wrong.

They may be narrowly trying to define success as "publishing a porn magazine for women" and ignoring other formats; I'm really not certain.

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Bridal Magazines!

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:-)

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Er, how have they defined "erotic art"? Do they mean "dirty pictures" or do they mean "porn"? Cause slash, which is the latter but not the former, exists in quantities so vast as to be measureless to (wo)man.

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I'm really not sure how narrowly they're defining things.

Do slash readers count as a specialized subset, or just a group lucky enough to know where to get their hands on it?

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Honey, we don't just know where to put our hands on it, we write it ourselves!

Need links?
Got Links :-)

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Blumindy, could you please explain to me why some women like slash, or is it just one of those "because that's what they like" type things? Personally, reading about Kirk and Spock getting it on with each other just wouldn't do it for me, although if someone could find me naked pictures of a young Leonard Nimoy...

Then again, I find a lot of (hardcore) porn images arousing, which I'm given to understand many women do not.

Along with my small (but growing) pr0n collection, I also (unsurprisingly) have a whole corpus of perfectly g-rated pictures of what I call "hot geeks" hiding on my hard drive... I've got David Malmo-Levine, Richard W. DeVaul, Kevin Mitnick, some friends, and Albert Einstein in swimming trunks... :)

That's mostly because there's a crying shortage of naked boy geeks on the net, as near as I can figure. :D

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It's a relatively new start-up, and despite having read two or three articles on it, I can't recall the name.

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Female soft porn? two words

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Slashy Goodness!

Slashy Goodness?

There is a print magazine for straight women...

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