From Chronicle Books, via Violet Blue’s blog.

The Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative asked women, young, old, rich, and poor, “What really, really gets you hot?” Armed with their findings, they worked day and night to create Porn for Women.

Haw haw, GEDDIT? Women get off on seeing men do household chores!

Doesn’t this fundamentally fall in the same realm as advertisements that suggest women like, say, chocolate more than sex? Or that flowery-smelling shampoos and conditioners provoke an orgasmic response? Because, after all, women don’t really like actual sex all that much, and usually we just do it as a favor for our mens. I mean, I don’t know about you, girlfriend, but if mine wasn’t always pestering me, I’d just as soon settle down on the couch with a gallon of ice cream and some nice lotion to watch Oprah.

Oh, wait. I don’t have a tv. Or a couch, for that matter.

I get that the burden of housework, cooking, and child care still falls disproportionately on women, and that it’s easier to want sex when you’re not preoccupied with crappy drudge-work. But this kind of thing perpetuates the idea that women just aren’t that into sex, and for all the articles in women’s magazines on how to ‘do it’ better, people buy into this in a big way. Which creates a disincentive for women and their partners to have sex that is satisfying to the women involved.

Have I stopped making sense yet? Mostly it just feels tired and lazy. Novelty greeting card humor. Meh.