Dapper Dan
01-27-2005, 12:03 AM
Ok, I keep looking for something of "Dr.P's" to post around here but sadly I don't think many of his articles are online... I'm going to have to talk to him and see if they are.... lol, I could use them in so many topics in this forum... I did however come across this on the internet... I sent him the thing on why we find lesbians so attractive and he has yet to respond..... he will either put it in our school's newspaper (he has a weekly column) or write me back when he gets a chance....
The anatomy of porn
In the vast marketplace of pornography -- the genitalia of the willing offered for long-distance inspection by the eyes of the fervid -- women who display themselves make more biological sense than do the men hooked on looking at them.
This according to Galdino Pranzarone, a prominent U.S. sexologist and professor at Virgina's Roanoke College, who said research shows that in all animal species, especially mammals, females make the initial solicitation in the proceptivity (catching the eye) phase of mating.
One study examining how women dress showed that they wore the most revealing garments during ovulation -- at about day 15 of their 28-day menstrual cycle. "This is because females are both looking for the best available male and trying to keep him in the vicinity to help look after the offspring when they're born. The male is just looking for anything," Dr. Pranzarone said.
Thus, the ready availability of young women for pornography is not paraphilia -- sexual behaviour outside the cultural norm -- but merely an extreme form of women following nature's script.
As for the taboo against pornography (such as it is), Dr. Pranzarone attributed it to a patriarchal culture resisting women's sexual power over men.
Toronto psychiatrist Thomas Verny, author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, said defining pornography's powerful grip is like the six blind men asked to define an elephant -- each describes the elephant according to the part he touches: "There is never one cause."
But Dr. Verny suggested one explanation is that the genital area has a fascination for both men and women, because of a primal urge to see the place they came from and re-experience the pleasure hormones -- cortisone, adrenaline and endorphins -- released during the trip down the birth canal (including the great massage the baby gets, all slathered in oily vermix), as well as the oxytocsin released during breast-feeding.
"This huge experience leaves a large imprint . . . mixed with the forbidden -- 'you mustn't look at penises or vaginas.' Which results in more curiosity," Dr. Verny said.
He called pornography a legitimate outlet for people not skilled at interpersonal relationships, and said that for some it may be easier to look at a magazine and masturbate than to deal with one's wife. "For those driven to look at it again and again and again," though, "you have to ask why. Penises and vaginas don't change, do they? Which means there's a neurosis there. It's a bottomless pit."
The anatomy of porn
In the vast marketplace of pornography -- the genitalia of the willing offered for long-distance inspection by the eyes of the fervid -- women who display themselves make more biological sense than do the men hooked on looking at them.
This according to Galdino Pranzarone, a prominent U.S. sexologist and professor at Virgina's Roanoke College, who said research shows that in all animal species, especially mammals, females make the initial solicitation in the proceptivity (catching the eye) phase of mating.
One study examining how women dress showed that they wore the most revealing garments during ovulation -- at about day 15 of their 28-day menstrual cycle. "This is because females are both looking for the best available male and trying to keep him in the vicinity to help look after the offspring when they're born. The male is just looking for anything," Dr. Pranzarone said.
Thus, the ready availability of young women for pornography is not paraphilia -- sexual behaviour outside the cultural norm -- but merely an extreme form of women following nature's script.
As for the taboo against pornography (such as it is), Dr. Pranzarone attributed it to a patriarchal culture resisting women's sexual power over men.
Toronto psychiatrist Thomas Verny, author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, said defining pornography's powerful grip is like the six blind men asked to define an elephant -- each describes the elephant according to the part he touches: "There is never one cause."
But Dr. Verny suggested one explanation is that the genital area has a fascination for both men and women, because of a primal urge to see the place they came from and re-experience the pleasure hormones -- cortisone, adrenaline and endorphins -- released during the trip down the birth canal (including the great massage the baby gets, all slathered in oily vermix), as well as the oxytocsin released during breast-feeding.
"This huge experience leaves a large imprint . . . mixed with the forbidden -- 'you mustn't look at penises or vaginas.' Which results in more curiosity," Dr. Verny said.
He called pornography a legitimate outlet for people not skilled at interpersonal relationships, and said that for some it may be easier to look at a magazine and masturbate than to deal with one's wife. "For those driven to look at it again and again and again," though, "you have to ask why. Penises and vaginas don't change, do they? Which means there's a neurosis there. It's a bottomless pit."