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I also think there was a clearer bias towards mushroom shaped objects than O'Keef work. It made me wonder if nude men are considered more pornographic than men.

by inlined 10y ago

dspillett 10y ago
> It made me wonder if nude men are considered more pornographic than men. In some places, definitely yes. The laws and regulations imposed by different countries, states, media companies, and other bodies, and how they are sometimes "over interpreted" when being careful not to trip over the rules, do vary but there is some bias towards not showing the penis at least. In some contexts genitalia is banned but breasts and buttocks are fine leaving more room for a sexual-ish image of woman to be acceptably published. In other contexts genitalia can be show as long as it isn't in a obviously aroused state, but other shows of arousal (blushing, other body language, suggestive word choice, ...) are fine, which will likely bias against male genitalia being publishable unless close up (and in contexts where the question is even raised a close-up shot is less likely). (Massive generalism here, but...) there is also a general opinion that the use of the female form can be defended as artistic more than the male - though I couldn't tell you if this is a symptom of other cultural biases or a cause of some of them. Attitudes to sexual preference are going to factor in too: those anti-homosexual opinions/feelings (conscious or otherwise) are more likely to react strongly to images of male sexuality than female (the old joke "I support homosexuality as long as both the chicks are hot" has some basis in reality). This is more common in men in my experience, especially man of certain age ranges and backgrounds which are currently over represented in parts of the "traditional" media industry and other seats of influence, making the bias more visible. All that and a number of other interrelated factors I don't have time to type out make it less common to see a full-body or otherwise genitalia-containing shot of a naked male than one of a naked female - so when one is shown it is more likely to illicit a stronger reaction. (I avoided using examples of differences in the consumption of pornographic output between different sexualities, as there is a lot of reporting bias in studies in that area both in terms of what questions the studies ask, how truthful the subjects answer, and what gets selected for publication)

I also think there was a clearer bias towards mushroom shaped objects than O'Keef work. It made me wonder if nude men are considered more pornographic than men.

by inlined 10y ago

I also think there was a clearer bias towards mushroom shaped objects than O'Keef work. It made me wonder if nude men are considered more pornographic than men.

dspillett 10y ago

> It made me wonder if nude men are considered more pornographic than men. In some places, definitely yes. The laws and regulations imposed by different countries, states, media companies, and other bodies, and how they are sometimes "over interpreted" when being careful not to trip over the rules, do vary but there is some bias towards not showing the penis at least. In some contexts genitalia is banned but breasts and buttocks are fine leaving more room for a sexual-ish image of woman to be acceptably published. In other contexts genitalia can be show as long as it isn't in a obviously aroused state, but other shows of arousal (blushing, other body language, suggestive word choice, ...) are fine, which will likely bias against male genitalia being publishable unless close up (and in contexts where the question is even raised a close-up shot is less likely). (Massive generalism here, but...) there is also a general opinion that the use of the female form can be defended as artistic more than the male - though I couldn't tell you if this is a symptom of other cultural biases or a cause of some of them. Attitudes to sexual preference are going to factor in too: those anti-homosexual opinions/feelings (conscious or otherwise) are more likely to react strongly to images of male sexuality than female (the old joke "I support homosexuality as long as both the chicks are hot" has some basis in reality). This is more common in men in my experience, especially man of certain age ranges and backgrounds which are currently over represented in parts of the "traditional" media industry and other seats of influence, making the bias more visible. All that and a number of other interrelated factors I don't have time to type out make it less common to see a full-body or otherwise genitalia-containing shot of a naked male than one of a naked female - so when one is shown it is more likely to illicit a stronger reaction. (I avoided using examples of differences in the consumption of pornographic output between different sexualities, as there is a lot of reporting bias in studies in that area both in terms of what questions the studies ask, how truthful the subjects answer, and what gets selected for publication)