Women’s Porno: The heterosexual female gaze in porn sites “for women”

Male gays in the female gaze: women who watch m/m pornography

“…In her seminal work, 'Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the 'Frenzy of the Visible'' Linda Williams (1990) implies that gay male porn is of little interest to women, when she states that she is not going to include gay male pornography in her study of hardcore porn on the grounds that it could not appeal to her as a heterosexual woman; 'lesbian and gay pornography do not address me personally' (p.7). Schauer (2005) observes that there is a large number of scenes of lesbian sex distributed across heterosexual male porn sites, noting 'the 'discovery' of lesbian 'pleasures' among the female population is virtually de rigueur here' (p.54), whereas she believes that in 'women's porno…nowhere is man-to-man sex symbolically or otherwise evident' (p.58).…”

Analysis of Representation of Sexuality on Women's and Men's Pornographic Websites

“…Technological and communicative aspects of representation of sexual material on the Internet may motivate women to watch such content, and women could also construct for themselves a new medium for sexual discourse by communicating with other women on the Internet and building communities (Leiblum & Döring, 2002). Indeed, now it is not uncommon to observe pornographic material produced for women and by women (Cunningham, 2014;Schauer, 2005). We believe that this situation warrants further research on the characteristics of pornography on the Internet that is aimed at women.…”

Porn by any other name: women's consumption of public sex performances in Amsterdam

“…She argues that the money shot 'can be viewed as the most representative instance of phallic power and pleasure (Williams, 1999: 95). Indeed, one of the main critiques anti-porn feminists have of pornography is the positioning of the camera, and the disembodiment of women's bodies as a result of the phallic camera lens (DeLauretis, 1984;McNair, 2002;Schauer, 2005).…”