Why don't men read more romance novels?
Via Jezebel, I see that Violet Blue has written an essay about why women don't watch more porn that shades into pressuring women who don't to feel bad about it, as if not enjoying a genre made mostly by men mostly for men makes you a prude. I know that's not her intention, and maybe it's just my mood, but I wasn't really persuaded by her piece, because she breezed over the hard questions, choosing instead to make women who are turned off by porn feel bad about it, like they're brainwashed by messages about how women are asexual. Continuing to beat back the slim and vanishing minority of feminists who think that non-misogynist porn is impossible is a strategy that's increasingly reading like a strawman to me, especially when I read stuff like this: