Okay - I have watched and enjoyed watching porn. I think it is silly on one level and ridiculous and yes, it can be sexually stimulating, which is why it is made and why it sells. And is one reason women and men watch it.

Women watching porn to please men? Hmmm . . . . I think there is a flicker of truth in that statement. It is not the ONLY reason women watch porn though. However, part of the changes that have occurred in male-female relationships over the past few decades is that women feel the need to seem cool and display ownership of their sexuality. There is an expectation of this from men and women. Publicly stating they enjoy porn and accept it fully is one way women feel they can do this.

The conflict I have regarding porn is this: It has changed sexual behaviour and expectations of sexual acts. It has effected body image, especially for women. Breast implants, total hairlessness, labial trims - these all got their start in porn and moved mainstream. Women feel a pressure to meet that artificial standard, and frankly, men do start to think that is the norm.

Expectations of sexual acts have changed too. Anal sex has moved (increasingly) mainstream and it seems like it is expected. Same with cum shots. And a few other things. This seems to be a more prevalent request amongst men who watch a lot of porn. I think women do feel pressured to conform out of a fear of seeming "prudish", which is sad because part of owning your sexuality has to be the confidence to say, "I like this. I am not interested in doing that."

What I am saying here is porn is not a fantasy film like Iron Man or Batman. There is nothing in those movies that will become mainstream for male body or performance changes. Porn has and does do that.

The study of bra wearing and cancer rates is flawed IMO.

Women who wear bras more often are more likely to be doing so out of comfort. Women with large breasts are more likely to feel some comfort from a good bra. It is not the size of the (natural) breast that has a correlation to cancer rates, but the amount of fatty tissue. More fatty tissue IS related to an increased breast cancer rates.

The study would be better if they studied thin women with small breasts who wear bras. But I doubt you'd find any "small" woman wanting to wear a bra to bed!

Cancer does strike anyone though. Plenty of smaller breasts get cancer - just that there is a higher rate with more fatty tissue.

Perhaps all those young impressional things out there looking to Keira Knightley as a role model will see her defiant acceptance of her breasts even under pressure to conform her titties to The Official Shape for Females?

I mean, that is more impressive in this day and age of the boob job, than the fact she is 23 and skinny.

I know that sounds so . . . extreme . . . but all these body modifications that women undergo to conform to an increasingly narrow definition of "what a desirable woman must look like", come from porn.

Please don't think I am anti-porn, I am not. But everything from boob jobs, pube sheering, and now trimmed, injected, lipo-d, and stitched up vulva/vaginas come from images of porn.

It is just so ubiquitous anymore, that these images are available to all so easily. An older woman dealing with aging, young women dealing with "am I attractive" issues, and girls who are forming their ideas of what women look like.

Women in Porn are the ultimate desired female - on a purely base level. It used to be that images of what a desired woman looked like, people got from the movies. And there was more variety then. Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe for instance. The Desired Woman always had a pretty face but at least the body types had variety. Now we see so much of one type of body. Only inevitable that the Desired Woman image is more narrowly defined. And even down to what our labia "should" look like!

I am curious as to why this is. Is it really just the availability of porn redefining the image? Europe has plenty and this plastic surgery to make woman look a certain way doesn't seem to have a hold there as it does here, and in USA-lite (Austrailia).

I wonder if it does have something to do with the seeking of equality in society. It seems the closer women in this country get to achieving par and intellectual acceptance, the more pressure, from within and without, there is to present an image of Desired Woman.

Think back a week or so - that article about the HOT Geek Girls? What's the point of being smart and having a good job if you aren't the object of wacking off material, right?

Sorry if I sound so cynical. I truly do not understand why women are willing to make themself into some created idea of woman. And I don't understand why men seem so happy to go along and support these surgeries (Support by their favourable response that is.) And unfortunately, I am seeing more and more women around me, young and old, embrassing these stupidities.