“What often doesn’t do is emphasize the pleasure or enjoyment of the female characters when it comes to the sex, it’s still primarily concerned with the masculine point of view and depicting sex acts which appeal to male fantasies.”Īccording to Rowntree, most mainstream flicks lack a specific focus on female pleasure. “The single most popular depiction is something we term ‘female-focused foreplay,’ specifically foreplay involving a male partner,” says Rowntree. We reached out to Rowntree to help us sort through what those common interests might be. But some erotic interests fall under an umbrella that extends a little shade to everyone. Women, certainly, are not all alike when it comes to what turns them on. According to Rowntree, most of her female members chose to log on alone. In the 16 years since its launch, the site has become one of the web’s premiere porn-for-women platforms. “For many years, what the industry got wrong was believing there was no female audience for their products in the first place.”
“Anybody who expects there to be a standard set of genres which appeal to women, or who thinks there’s a convenient and defined answer to what women want in or from porn, would be surprised by how varied and ranging women’s taste in porn actually is,” she told AlterNet.
Rule 34 of the internet states “If it exists, there’s porn for it.” So when Angie Rowntree started the female-friendly porn studio Sssh back in 1999, she gained some unprecedented insight into a group oft overlooked in matters of sex and pleasure. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.