Porn for women.
OK, now that I have your attention …
The subject of this column is not really about pornography. It’s about what women really want. The pic- ture book “Porn for Women” (Chronicle Books, $10.36) reveals the thinking woman’s view on what sends her pulses racing.
Example: A guy taking out the garbage with the caption, “As long as I have legs to walk on, you’ll never have to take out the garbage.”
The book and a new offering, “Porn for New Moms,” is the brainchild of a group of Cambridge, Mass., women, ages 19-93, who call themselves the Cambridge Women’s Pornography Cooperative. They considered the question: “What really turns women on?” At least, that’s the story spokesperson Heather Peterson told during a phone interview.
“We started out as a group of women and a few self-proclaimed ‘lucky’ men talking about what turns women on,” Peterson says. “We’re having a lot of fun with this tongue-in-cheek book.”
Speaking of tongues, thankfully, you won’t find them in the tasteful photographs by Susan Anderson. The book has a few shirtless guys, but most photos show men doing what Peterson terms “explicit” activities, such as cleaning the cat litter box or brushing off a tee time to stay home with mom and baby.
The book contains a warning: “Prepare to enter a world were men insist on changing diapers, where men couldn’t imagine letting you lift a finger around the house after bearing the child. Now that’s hot.”
Many examples come from real-life couples. “The fantasies are based on truth,” she says.
The book shows men holding babies, reading to a toddler, cooking and looking seductive in bed.
New mothers, let me draw your attention to Page 15. It shows an easy-on-the-eyes guy with the caption: “Let’s not have sex tonight. Let me just rub your feet while you tell me about the baby’s day.”
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