While Marci’s running in horror from her local Urban Outfitters, our pals over at Glamour have figured out that when we say porn, we really mean, “More chocolates, please!” Glamour editor Erin Zammett wrote this friendly little post about our latest title, and started a fun thread. (Glamour gals, mind if we borrow an idea or two a future title? We’ll send over the lads for chair massages and dinner. Do we have a deal?)
We always suspected that Porn for Women was appalling—for guys,
anyway. We can’t help but imagine them whining, when suddenly
confronted with the unvarnished truth about how best to score
points with their partners. (But, guys, `fess up! You knew it
all along, right?)
So, imagine our surprise when we discover that it was prudish
shopper Marci Milfs who was shocked and dismayed by guys toting
vacuums and grabbing the dusting rag.
Here’s the evidence.
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080505/NEWS01/211276391&news01ad
Marci, we’re waiting to be served papers. In the meantime, we’ll
be right here, where we always are, in our Porn for Women den of
iniquity, lasciviously watching our boys dusty, mop, craft and
shop for any feminine hygiene products we so declare.
Those of you involved in cutting edge research can understand the mix of feeling we get when our work finally gets some mainstream attention.
This recent, syndicated story about our latest offering, Porn for New Moms, announces the startling finding that, “studies show that men who take on household tasks may reap the benefits of “choreplay.”
Here at that Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative, our proprietary research has been turning out results that make this point for years [porn for women cover—link]. And after ripping off our lab coats and shouting our findings from our ivory towers, it seems that small, enlightened segments of the media are finally paying attention. (Climate change scientists: we feel your pain!)
It’s both gratifying to see our research finally reaching people, and frustrating that it took so damn long. I guess that comes with the territory of being ahead of the curve. And speaking of being ahead of the curve, while the rest of the world is finally catching up to the concept of choreplay we’re rolling out our latest, groundbreaking research in Porn for New Moms. Wait ‘til you see the photos is thin one! We invite you to participate in our peer review process, by picking up a copy of Porn for New Moms [photo of cover as link] and posting your comments here at wannasnuggle.com.
So what’s cooking in our lab with New Moms out on the shelves? Everything in time, dear reader.
P.S. It’s nice to see “choreplay” coming into the cultural vocab. It’s part of our grand plan for Porn for Women’s Pornacopia.
We found this nice review of Porn for New Moms in the pages of a recent edition of Glamour. Best of all, we thought, was the great little discussion that ensued. To all the new moms who posted: thanks for sharing the ideas, and we promise the massage, the sitter and the hotel reservations in Cancun are on us, if any of your ideas get adopted for a future title. (ha ha)
That’s right. The Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative has just released it’s latest set of findings, all compiled in a neat, little 88-page report we call, Porn for New Moms.
Granted, the results of this research initiative are heavy on photos and light on the text, but hey, our lab coats are as white as the National Science Foundation’s. And, our peer-review committee consists of tens of thousands of moms. Take that, NIH!
Inside PFNM, you’ll find pages and pages of hunkalicious fathers, proclaiming everything from, “In eight more hours, we can wake mommy up!” to “Who says there’s no such thing as ‘paternal instinct?’ Hand over that baby!”
Got a friend who’s been recently mommed? Or about to become a mom? She needs a copy of Porn for New Moms. No one should bear children without it.
Do us a favor, and grab a copy for a gift. Besides, we need to clear out the shipping room in preparation for the delivery of the pallets of combination sleep-aid, mood enhancer, breast pain reliever and headache preventative we’re testing.
Though we here at the Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative pride ourselves on our cutting edge research, we’re not above giving credit where credit’s due. And, this past week, we learned of some rather hot and sudsy findings from our peers in academia. Specifically, this MSNBC article, Gals make passes at guys who wash glasses came our way.
The findings?
*According to a May 2007 in American Journal of Public Health, a guy who pulls his own weight around the house isn’t just hot, he’s a boon for his lady’s health.
*Research conducted by Laurie A. Rudman, a psychologist at Rutgers University, also seems to point to a hot soapy love connection. Her study… found that men with feminist partners reported both more stable relationships and greater sexual satisfaction.*Researchers at the American University of Beirut studied 1,652 married couples and found that wives whose husbands were minimally involved in housework were 60 percent more likely to be distressed. “Our results showed a significant association between husbands’ involvement in housework and their wives’ psychosocial health,” wrote Marwan Khawaja, author of the study.
Marwan and Laurie: we could have saved you the grant writing! What’s not to love about a guy up to his arms in Dove?
Naturally, though, we’re gratified to have confirmation of our little Cooperative’s instincts. And those field findings do help explain why we’re constantly going back to the presses on our first book, Porn for Women, which now has 160,000 copies in print.
Which reminds us, it’s time to call the boys in shipping and order another tractor-trailer load.
Never a dull day at the Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative (CWPC). Driven by demand for our first book, Porn for Women, the CWPC lab is running at full tilt as our team analyzes the reams of data collected from our most recent study, Porn for New Moms. Hot stuff! (Stay tuned: We’ll publish those findings in the spring.)
With that knowledge in hand, we’ve begun research for Phase 3 of the Porn for Women analysis. We know everyone wants different things, so we’re asking a brand new batch of recruits to tell us what really turns them on - and we need you!
So what’s your ultimate Porn for Women fantasy?
Tell us in the comments section below (ok, be anonymous if you’re shy). And please feel free to enlighten your friends with this call to action. We’ll gather the best responses into our forthcoming collection of Porn for Women.
We’ve noticed something really interesting here at the Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative (CWPC). Like proud but nervous parents headed to a parent-teacher conference, we read our first book’s reviews on Amazon with bated breath. Hearing what people think of our work is more than mildly obsessive. But we just don’t know what to make of our baby’s grades: all A’s…and F’s?! Talk about extremes. In Amazon’s five-star rating system, Porn for Women has received zero lukewarm 3-star ratings, just resounding applause or jeering boo’s. Guess you either love it or you hate it.
So, our book gets some really negative reviews:
“In a world where real progressive women are out to demonstrate that their sex can have ambitions as grand and respectable as men, this book decides to step in and say ‘All women care about is housework *tee-hee!*’ One page features the model saying ‘Why don’t I buy a minivan so you can drive something fun?’ What’s the message here? That it’s better to be dependant on your partner’s income than to go out and earn a car by yourself?
Um, no. The message is, why should I drive the rumpus room on wheels? Let him drive it, and I’ll take the Audi TT convertible.
Is that sexist? Do I even care when the wind is blowing through my hair and my husband is kicking away empty juice boxes? The message is, let’s not assume Mommy is going to get the short end of the stick just because she’s Mommy. I think you’ve got it completely backwards. That review continues:
“No, I’m not going to buy a book of trite jokes that perpetuate gender stereotypes in order to deliver a passive-agressive [sic] point to you, honey.”
My! I think we could use a little porn for women in our lives, couldn’t we? This book may be exactly what you need. That, and a spell check. Fortunately, not everyone misunderstands this book. Here’s another review from a more clued-in reader:
“As an ardent First Amendment supporter and a feminist scholar who has done lots of research on sex work, porn, etc., I fully support women who enjoy ‘regular’ porn, or feminist porn that includes, well, sex, as this book does not. But to the reviewers who slammed this particular book for its ‘offensive’ assumption that women only find housework sexy, I think you’re missing the point. The book is not reifying…”
Oooh! “Reifying!” We like her!
“…the notion that women do not like sex. Nor are they claiming that ‘regular’ porn and this brand of ‘porn’ are mutually exclusive, or that women can’t appreciate both.”
Amen!
“They are merely expanding the concept of what’s considered sexy, what can be considered a turn-on, and what can be defined as sensual. Rather than narrowly define what is sexy as that which is explicitly sex-oriented (and such a narrow definition would be more offensive, I would think, than any photo in this book), this book evokes a spectrum, and encourages people to find the sensual in the everyday. And c’mon, anything that can make dull chores more exciting should be celebrated!”
Exactly. Isn’t having a partner who does the laundry, cooks dinner, changes the litter box, and generally shares in the household responsibilities a turn on? Damn right. If for no other reason than it lets me not worry about that stuff. And FREE TIME is sexy. Because when I’m not worrying about making dinner and cleaning up the house, my mind wanders to things that are much more fun…
—Betsy, Research Assistant, CWPC
Oh, stop it.
We cannot believe the uproar caused by our little book, Porn for Women! It wasn’t like we invaded a sovereign Middle Eastern country, or single handedly brought back leggings! People, please calm down.
Most of you love our porn. But, apparently, some of you hate our porn. And some of you just can’t make up your minds. So, today I’ll step out of the Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative’s (CWPC) lab to address a few of the negative comments our book has received. Maybe in the end you’ll warm to our cold hard facts.
Complaint #1: Porn for Women implies that this porn will appeal to all women because women respond sexually as one robotic Borg. OK, I admit that we took some artistic license with the title. We toyed with Porn for Lots and Lots of Women, Porn for Most of the Women We Know, and Porn for Women, Except for the Women for Whom This Porn Isn’t. None of them quite had the ring of Porn for Women.
Seriously, aren’t we getting a little bit picky here? Do you think that the person who wrote The Dangerous Book for Boys was certain that all his ideas would in fact appeal to all boys? (Actually, judging by its freakishly rapid sales, maybe he did). No. Look, we tested this porn. We had actual women of all ages, shapes, sizes, and political bents come to our laboratories and view images. We had sensors, heart rate monitors, and all kinds of bio feedback devices. We found that stuff like this:
Figure #1:
I love a clean house
was more appealing to most women than this:
Figure #2
Bottom line: this book is based on hard science. Rock hard science.
So we can’t apologize for the breadth of our material’s appeal. It simply IS appealing to a lot of women (OK, OK, not every single woman). It may not be for you, but a lot of us think this stuff:
Figure #3:
I like to get to these things before I have to be asked
is totally hot.
Next time we’ll address this question: is Porn for Women belittling women’s real needs by turning us into domestically obsessed, easy-to-please, empty-headed lap dogs? My goodness, we’ll have to think about that one.
-Gloria, Lab Manager, CWPC
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