# Poll for Female Dopers: Opinion on a particular type of porn **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 2, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622 "2012-04-02T19:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/1 "2012-04-02T19:43:58Z")
Post #63 of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=646572) got me thinking of women’s reaction to the kind of porn that’s generally thought to appeal mostly to men: closeup shots of sexual body parts and sexual activities, for example. I was curious about reactions, so poll coming in a sec. For the purposes of the poll, I’m referring \*only \* to the kind of porn I’m describing: film or photographic close-up studies of vaginas, breasts, penises, sexual activity (focused on the crotch area), etc. Not porn involving a full-body view of two or more people having sex. Oh, and if you want to share, does your sexual orientation have any bearing on your opinion? (For example, if you’re gay, do you like closeups of female sexual parts but not male?) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/2 "2012-04-02T19:50:38Z")
I don’t like porn as you’re defining it (movies of actual people having sex), so that’s what I put, but that particular type of shot/movie is particularly uninteresting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/3 "2012-04-02T20:02:49Z")
I clicked “disgusting/offputting” but that’s not really it; I just think it’s boring as sin. Porn is boring as generally made, anyway. Unless there’s charazterization and plot it’s as boring as watching paint dry. I have no interest in watching two random people have sex. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/4 "2012-04-03T15:33:48Z")
I chose “It depends on the people involved”: if an actor/actress is particularly unappealing, or if the sounds they’re making are particularly annoying, or if there are too many face shots, it won’t work for me. Usually, though, it does. I’m a 40-year-old straight woman, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/5 "2012-04-03T16:20:23Z")
I’m all for it. I love checking out other people’s junk. Bodies are fascinating to me. One of my favorite porn games is to try to identify in what decade the porn was made just by looking at how the actors groom themselves. Example: Full bush, c-section scars, zits, cellulite = probably 70s porn trimmed bush, breast implant scars, certain color palettes = probably 80s porn Almost no bush to none, no physical imperfections at all = probably 90s porn No bush, on anyone, female actors might have had labiaplasty, male actors might have had anal bleaching = 2000s porn Recently, a friend of mine was showing me a magazine (I think a Playboy) in which she appeared nekkid – she’d participated in Stripperfest and was in one of the candid shots. That wasn’t enough for me, I had to go through the entire magazine, page by page, inspecting people’s junk and trying to decide what modifications the models had. A lot of labiaplasties and surgical alterations aside from boob jobs, seem to be really common now. I also try to decide if people wax or shave depending on how close up the pic/shot is. It’s nothing more than morbid curiosity; not a turn on at all. I just find Teh Nekkid interesting, mostly because people’s genitals are usually a totally different color from the rest of their skin and that fascinates me. That and nipples. Nipples are interesting too. They could be on the brown side or on the pink side and ethnic heritage/race doesn’t always seem to have all that much to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/6 "2012-04-03T19:54:44Z")
I don’t particularly care for that angle, but I’ll put up with it for brief periods in an otherwise-good movie. I wouldn’t turn off the movie unless that’s ALL it was the whole time. A lot of my enjoyment of porn comes from seeing the actors’ facial expressions, and seeing the “big picture.” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/7 "2012-04-03T20:00:22Z")
I much prefer a long shot (snicker) to close ups. I like the gestalt more than the details. Like **Anaamika** , I find too many close ups boring and my mind starts to wander. When my mind starts to wander, I start making lists in my head, and that’s generally the end of sexyfuntime. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/8 "2012-04-03T20:16:48Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > I’m all for it. I love checking out other people’s junk. Bodies are fascinating to me. One of my favorite porn games is to try to identify in what decade the porn was made just by looking at how the actors groom themselves. I only have an interest in checking out junk of people I “know” a little. Like I’d want to see Daniel Craig naked but not Joe Schmoe. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/9 "2012-04-04T03:43:45Z")
I clicked on the disgusting option but I don’t really find it disgusting … just boring. I’m just not visually stimulated. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/10 "2012-04-04T13:48:10Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > I clicked on the disgusting option but I don’t really find it disgusting … just boring. Agreed. Watching a penis squelch in and out of a vagina in extreme close up isn’t exactly “disgusting” – but its about as sexy as videos of abdominal surgery. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/11 "2012-04-04T14:01:28Z")
I think I _would_ like up-close-genital-porn, only everything I usually see is so unappealing. I really DO NOT mean that actually I want emotional-talkie-they’re-having-sex-but-you-see-they’re-faces-porn. Like **Hello Again** says, penis-vagina, up & down… it’s just boring. Oral sex too, it’s just weird, it doesn’t look at all like what I like. In fact, it doesn’t usually look like real oral sex, more like a lizard testing food and finding it inedible. I think that’s the problem for me: it doesn’t look like what I like about sex. It just looks fake and slightly uncomfortable. If I found something that looked like sex that I like I would enjoy close-up-on-the-genitals-porn. Sometimes it looks appealing for a split second… and then, no. Obviously, I haven’t tried very hard with looking. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/12 "2012-04-04T14:50:28Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I only have an interest in checking out junk of people I “know” a little. Like I’d want to see Daniel Craig naked but not Joe Schmoe. There is a picture of Daniel Craig reclining in a bath tub nude. Just sayin…😃 > [@Hello\_Again](#): > > Agreed. Watching a penis squelch in and out of a vagina in extreme close up isn’t exactly “disgusting” – but its about as sexy as videos of abdominal surgery. Agreed. I prefer long shots as the whole is more interesting than parts. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/13 "2012-04-04T14:52:48Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > There is a picture of Daniel Craig reclining in a bath tub nude. Just sayin…😃 I have it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/14 "2012-04-04T15:09:39Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I much prefer a long shot (snicker) to close ups. I like the gestalt more than the details. Like **Anaamika** , I find too many close ups boring and my mind starts to wander. When my mind starts to wander, I start making lists in my head, and that’s generally the end of sexyfuntime. This. I want to see the whole body, with occasional close-ups of the face. I like to see people’s expressions (unless they’re really fake, in which case… well probably the whole thing is a turn off). I generally prefer written or drawn stuff, because I can get inside their heads better. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-for-female-dopers-opinion-on-a-particular-type-of-porn/617622/15 "2012-04-04T15:14:16Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > I generally prefer written or drawn stuff, because I can get inside their heads better. Yep. Plus, I don’t have to worry about the actors/actresses.