I had a girlfriend once who told me that women enjoy porn just as much as men; it's just that the female version of porn is the romance novel. I've never found reason to doubt her on that. Men are more aroused by visual imagery whereas women are aroused by, not so much story, as by character.
Research by Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam confirms this intuition. They looked at web searches and web content and found consistently that women prefer stories with men who have sexy or romantically desirable character traits. They give an evolutionary psychology interpretation of the difference, saying that women, throughout the long history of our evolution, have had to be more careful about finding a man that will stick around the raise the children. So, if you want to write a story appealing to women, make your characters more like that romantic, emotionally-available, trustworthy, devoted, ambitious and successful (and on and on) type that women love.
If male-oriented porn and romance novels are correlative, it gives new meaning to the old 19th paranoia about the immoral influence of novels upon women.
I had a girlfriend once who told me that women enjoy porn just as much as men; it's just that the female version of porn is the romance novel. I've never found reason to doubt her on that. Men are more aroused by visual imagery whereas women are aroused by, not so much story, as by character.
Research by Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam confirms this intuition. They looked at web searches and web content and found consistently that women prefer stories with men who have sexy or romantically desirable character traits. They give an evolutionary psychology interpretation of the difference, saying that women, throughout the long history of our evolution, have had to be more careful about finding a man that will stick around the raise the children. So, if you want to write a story appealing to women, make your characters more like that romantic, emotionally-available, trustworthy, devoted, ambitious and successful (and on and on) type that women love.
If male-oriented porn and romance novels are correlative, it gives new meaning to the old 19th paranoia about the immoral influence of novels upon women.
Romance novels & Porn
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