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‘The Times, They Are a Changin’

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This chapter looks at how the perception of women’s involvement in the consumption of pornography is changing in this post Fifty Shades … world. It explores how the 525 women surveyed and interviewed see women’s consumption of porn as having changed since they first engaged with m/m SEM. It also examines how engagement with m/m porn and erotica has changed the women’s own views around gender, sex, and sexuality.

We’re beginning to claim our own sexuality. We’re beginning to stand up and refute the madonna/whore dichotomy. We can be women, wives, mothers, sisters, teachers, scientists, etc., and yet we can still like sex or porn.

(American, 35–44, married, heterosexual)

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Neville, L. (2018). ‘The Times, They Are a Changin’. In: Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69134-3_9

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