There seems to be an increase in specifically female-targeted porn at the moment. As a result, I've been offered several porn films to review recently from companies including Sweetmeat and Digital Playground. It'll be interesting to see how they differ from the usual porn vids. Will there be plot? Attractive men? Lesbians with short fingernails? Real breasts rather than silicone ones?
Years back, Candida Royale tried to make porn videos aimed at women. I've never seen one - or met anyone who has - so have no idea if they're any cop (though loads of people I know rave about her sex toy range) but after she made her vids, there didn't seem to be anyone aiming videos at women for ages, so it's good to see that people are trying to provide something again.
Then again, is what women want really that different? I was interested by Carly Milne's views on women and porn - that women *do* consume the usual porn - they just don't buy it so they don't show up in the stats. Surveys have shown that a third of people who view porn online are female, so it would make sense that the same is true offline. And from chatting to girlie mates, loads of us watch stuff like Ben Dover and enjoy it.
There's certainly a problem with the distribution. Hanging round sex shops isn't something that most women, myself included, would feel safe doing. OK, now it's possible to buy videos online but in a huge amount of cases, the sites/video covers are less than appealing; standard large breasted woman who 'takes it any way' rather than any kind of real sex (no, not so real that people end up not getting down to it because they don't have condoms or where condoms split or where blokes lose their hard on but equally, not with really bad faked orgasms and unlubed anal sex)
Be interesting to see what the female-targeted stuff is like.