“… women’s desire is not relational, it’s narcissistic — it is dominated by the yearnings of “self-love,” by the wish to be the object of erotic admiration and sexual need….What women want is a real dilemma…”
Wow, thanks New York Times for informing us all. Really, who believes this shit? While I appreciate the hard work of sexologists, the fact is that science can no more quantify a woman’s desire by reading little red graph lines on a page, then the next winning lottery numbers.
A commentator to my previous post about Misogynists Advertise Women In Fuck Positions – And Sell BIG Time – remarked on an article they found about a scientific study assessing what women find desirable. I presume the New York Times article (cited above) is the study they were referencing. And I think its a bunch of BS. According to the study, women were almost equally aroused by images of other women with women, as they were men. Yeah so what? It doesn’t explain one iota why women (a massive amount of women according to the numbers) – buy products that expressly convey graphic negative imagery of their own sex. My question remains unanswered.
Good writing. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..
Matt Hanson
One one hand, as a male, I have to admit to liking the ads. Are they targeted to me?
On the other hand though… there’s some sticky stuff…