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by autoreleasepool 4068 days ago
> (for a woman... because men's natural enjoyment of sex throws off my following analogy)

Pro tip: If your analogy needs a disclaimer that perpetuates gender stereotypes for it to work, then its probably sexist.

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The parenthetical statement by ffn, although a bit tongue-in-cheek, is largely "men want sex more than women." Which, judging by the statistical consumption of porn across the world, is resoundingly true. I get your point about not perpetuating gender stereotypes, but the whole spirit of that movement (feminism, equality, what have you) is to not perpetuate gender stereotype types where they are irrelevant - as in when sex is not directly involved (e.g. leading a corporation, programming a computer, playing with children, etc.)... But you will literally not find a field where sex is more directly involved than sex itself. Granted there are always exceptions, but the statement that "man want sex more than woman" is sexist the same way "man is physically larger than woman" or "woman have higher % body fat than man" is sexist.

In other words, it's sexist in the sense that we recognize there is a biological difference between the sexes - we're not applying it to infer men are automatically rapists, or women are automatically unable to make executive decision. So maybe instead of playing around with labeling terms that carry a lot of negative connotations, you can actually consider the circumstance and context of what is being said before you label.

so men want sex more than women because of some statistic that you didn't even bother to fully pull out of your ass? nice
Here's a study (scroll to page 6 for the table):

http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Gender_Differences_in_Porno...

Now combine that with some data from Christian Rudder's Dataclysm (just a link to a info-pic + summary article here):

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-09-04/mining-okcup...

Men consume a lot more porn than women and hunt for casual sex a lot more than women. Actually, if you weren't so rustled, you could've just google'd "consumption of porn by gender" and gotten a lot more results than the two I put up there. But yeah, way to not walk away and accept that someone else has a valid point, and feel free to continue loudly cry "no, your stats suck", "give more sources", while hiding behind a throw-away account and throwing out sensational accusations of "sexism!" for the sake of accruing karma on your main one.

Taking only graphic porn into consideration is a bias; women consume 'porn' in the form of romance novels.

"By and large, men prefer images and graphic sex sites; women prefer erotic stories and romance sites." - http://rescuefreedom.org/parallax/wp-content/uploads/2015/01...

For the record, that really isn't me. I didn't think your comment deserved a response so I ignored it. I don't have a way to prove it to you. Sorry.