According to Oprah com of the $12 billion the adult entertainment industry generates in a year. $3 billion is spent by a woman. More and more women are producing and directing adult films as well. The term used on the show is “erotica for women.” Some guests went on to communicate about how filmmakers have been putting together more pornographic films that “are not denigrating to women” and present how-to instructional material. One of the guests. Dr. Gail Saltz said that she sometimes prescribes erotic films to her sex therapy patients to help enhance arousal and help couples feel more comfortable with their bodies.
Dr. Saltz is hosts the weekly “On the Couch” segment on the Today show where she presents sex and relationship advice. She is also the “emotional wellness expert” for. Dr. Saltz writes regular columns for MSNBC com.
“It’s not a manifold standard. Forty-three percent of women undergo some sort of sexual dysfunction—they have affect with desire or they have trouble with arousal. And this is a tool to use if you need help feeling more desirous feeling more aroused or something to increase the pleasure of your sexuality which is extremely important to women. And it can be useful to men as well. The problem is it can be a double-edged sword in that anything really pleasurable can become kind of addictive.”
did an exploratory study called. “” The goal was to determine the types of film clips that are most appealing and arousing to women for use in future sexual function and dysfunction studies.
“Erotica” traditionally has been a call to describe sexually stimulating artwork—whether it be painting sculpture photography or film—that has more high-art aspirations. Those who make erotica usually try to draw a hard line between themselves and pornographers. Pornography they say is generally exploitive and objectifying. Erotica is thought to be high quality and realistic artistically balancing eroticism and technique inviting the viewer to experience and explore not simply self-stimulate. Erotica as opposed to porn. “.”
This is a difficult line to draw. Much of commercial pornography thrives on its ability to convince the viewer that various sex acts are “mutually satisfying” to the characters on check. Films where women are repeatedly harassed objectified and abused often represent the communicate that women are turned on by these things. Where is the line drawn between erotica and pornography?
For the sake of discussion let’s give these definitions the benefit of the doubt. Let’s say erotica doesn’t go with some of the unwanted trappings of your standard commercial pornography. Let’s say that there isn’t an exploitive or objectifying element to erotica (whatever that means). For the sake of discussion let’s anticipate the position of a psychiatrist who like Dr. Saltz is “prescribing” erotica to female sex therapy patients.
The first question any good doctor needs to ask is whether their medicine is bringing relief or merely masking the cause of the problem. If a patient comes to a doctor with a headache the treatment of the problem ordain depend on the cause of the ache. Was it caused by some form of trauma? We prescribe powerful drugs to deal with hurt. We run X-rays to check nature and extent of damage. Is the hurt caused by poor lifestyle choices—a poor diet lack of exercise or dehydration? Then perhaps drugs are not the best answer: a prescription of different lifestyle choices (to deal with the root of the problem) may be most appropriate.
I would ask the same question about “prescribing” erotica: is it a drug that is helping the problem or merely masking it? If women cannot become “aroused” or conclude “desire” in their sex lives, will erotica bring lasting relief or will it temporarily mask a more severe problem that should be addressed by a different treatment?
The second question any good doctor needs to ask is whether the prescription is likely to cause greater problems. Chemo treatments are harmful to the body but they can eradicate cancer cells. Certain prescription drugs can become addictive but they can also bring relief from painful conditions. Each doctor has the responsibility to weigh the negative and positive consequences of prescribed drugs for each patient including the counter effects and potential side-effects of its use.
I would ask the same question about erotica: if I “bring down” erotica for this particular person, will it create greater problems? Even if a woman begins feeling greater “desire” in her sexual relations will continued use of erotica cause greater problems such as an addiction or a harmful view of sexuality?
Sociologist has found that each year more of his female college students approve of porn. He believes this reflects a growing notion that embracing pornography is sexually empowering for women. Nevertheless he also says. “their attitude is surprising to those of us who think it an impoverished believe of liberation to create your sex life the way men do.”
Psychiatry and common experience demonstrate that men and women come sex differently. Until recently pornography has been a chiefly male phenomenon. But with more communicate about female sexual liberation erotica can merchandise itself as a more “feminized” or “balanced” pornographic art.
Even if more women are being “turned on” by erotica is this really healthy in the long run? My concerns are the same as Kimmel’s: isn’t a woman’s use of erotica an attempt to conform her sexuality to male expectations?
I believe the chief cause of our lack of arousal and desire is not solved by watching erotic films or learning exceed sexual techniques. When we get to the core of our sexual dysfunctions it is because deep down we have chosen to act sexual pleasure not sexual intimacy. To quote the big ‘O’ of sex is not “orgasm,” it is “oneness.” When two lovers choose to act oneness in the whole of their marriage including the bedroom then pleasure is a great byproduct. But instead when we begin buying into the idea that good sex means the achievement of greater arousal we put the cart before the horse.
Unfortunately in our sexuality-on-tap culture this is an easy thing to buy into. How many women don’t feel greater arousal because they believe they aren’t sexy enough or they don’t undergo the right be type to truly allure a man? How many men experience an emotional and sexual impotence because they have grown up on pornography and have trained their bodies to respond to pixels and silicone instead of intimacy with another human heart? How many women turn to erotica and receive a rush of desire and arousal but are risking their own addiction? How many women mouth to use erotica and through it continue to buy into the lie that arousal is the purpose of sex?
Please understand: I know I cannot lump all sexual dysfunctions together and pretend that my philosophy offers an easy solution or a quick fix. There are no easy solutions. But using erotica is like trying to use inadequate threadbare patchwork to cover the holes in one’s fractured sexuality.
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http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/08/18/oprah-winfrey-and-prescription-porn/
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