Most of the Porn industry = sexual enslavement for women.It is crass, mechanical and mostly devoid of imagination and emotional depth.No woman of sane mind would want to debase themselves unless they had very few other options.

Reap what you sew.

Let's not only focus only on the decline of the female libido. The married male libido is also in a state of arrest as he tries to summon the fortitude to go through the laborious motions with images of his favourite teen or MLF fresh in his mind. Often the sex with the Mrs is just far too complicated for the struggling sensitive new age guy who can't stand the demands of the emotionally needy partner, her mood swings and her hyper-sensitive nipples and clitoris. The male libido is in crisis too but we don't talk about it because we're meant to be driven to distraction by the spouse's promise and we'll do anything for peace and quiet. It's more often a case of girding the loins than chortling to the mates "I'm on a promise"! Which is more likely than not attended with an unspoken "Oh Gawd!".
Most married men would rather have a dexterous had job an be left to their own imaginations than go through seven minutes of bad opera with the Mrs.
A poor male libido can probably be put down more often than not to the fact that he just had a good wank. What's the wife's excuse?

Q. What do you get when 20 porn addicts harass a feminist?
A. This comments session.
Is the online opinion website dominated by men or are you just the most vocal? Perhaps this opinion piece has hit some raw nerves. Hands up if you’ve even read Ellwood-Clayton’s book? Or even plan to? There seems to be a lot of “premature” participation here (maybe that’s why you’re all into porn in the first place). I read the book on the weekend and it is extremely rich with research and the author has a unique take on women’s sexuality. I do think Petra has minimalized the work somewhat, by picking and choosing quotes that fit with her own argument. The context is missing. You’ll find Sex Drive isn’t really about porn, in fact it barely rates a mention. I even think in one place Ellwood-Clayton mentions that porn is a commonly used aid used by sex therapists for low libido.

"What do you get when 20 porn addicts harass a feminist?"

People responding to an article and for the most part challenging it's assumptions and conclusions are accused of harassing. There seems to be very little by way of attacks on the author, about the roughest seems to be Hasbeens opening remarks which were relatively mild compared to a lot of online comments.

tooqie also manages to add "There seems to be a lot of “premature” participation here (maybe that’s why you’re all into porn in the first place)." so negative implications about the sex lives of those you disagree with does not seem to be the harassment issue.

R0bert

The posters here have got it all wrong about feminism and porn. Porn is actually one of the biggest dividers of feminism. Trust me ... I've come off several feminist blogsites over the years shaken to the core from self-proclaimed feminists screeching bloody murder at me that any criticism of porn is an affront to women's true sexual expression, an admission of overwhelming hatred of all men and a slippery slide into fascist totalitarian oppression.

Conversely, the male blogosphere reduces any criticism of porn to women's pathetic ignorance of men's real needs and desires as proudly passed down to them via evolutionary necessity. The thought that 99.99% of our evolution never had porn in it never seems to occur to them.

What it really comes down to is that, even with the juggernaut proliferation of porn and its infiltration of the mainstream (which will get a whole lot worse before it ever gets better), a large segment of the population of both sexes neither watch it nor need it. Porn is just lonliness pretending to be liberation.

@squeers

I also don't see a problem if many men want to watch porn and many women don't want to have sex.

Killarney

For 99% of human evolution we didn't have clothes either.