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What women really want?
Posted By katie allison granju
These two new(ish) books, “Porn for Women” (keep reading - it’s not what you think!) and “Porn for New Moms” are causing quite a stir with their comic play on the assumption that we still live in a world where men don’t do any traditionally female tasks.
Excerpts:
Porn for Women — Prepare to enter a fantasy world. A world where clothes get folded just so, delicious dinners await, and flatulence is just not that funny. Give the fairer sex what they really want—beautiful PG photos of hunky men cooking, listening, asking for directions, accompanied by steamy captions: “I love a clean house!” or “As long as I have two legs to walk on, you’ll never take out the trash.” Now this is porn that will leave women begging for more!
Porn for New Moms — Hot on the heels of last year’s runaway success, Porn for Women, the female pornographers from Cambridge are now tackling the fantasies of new mothers. What really turns them on? The CWPC locked themselves in the lab for months to find out. And the results are in this scientifically proven, steamy photo collection of hunky guys doing exactly what new mothers want. Prepare to enter a fantasy world, a world where men insist on changing diapers, where guys get up for 3 a.m. feedings, and where they just can’t help but admire mom’s sexy all-sweatpants wardrobe. Page after page of titillating shots and dream-worthy captions will make every mother swoon.
People apparently either find this hilarious or horrifying, depending on what kinds of men they happen to live with.
Me, I live with an Alan Alda kind of fella who does as much or more of the childcare and housework as I do. (No, really. I swear. And he fixes things, too!).
But - naming no names - I know LOTS and LOTS of women friends whose husbands- while otherwise quite lovely human beings - do next to nada around the house or with the mundane tasks of childcare. For those women, this stuff is funny because it’s literally true.
So how about you? What’s your take on the books? Funny? Or insulting and man-hatin’?
Apr 22nd, 2008
