Sorry it's late but saw something few pages back that kind of grinded my gears a bit about women consooming mainstream smut "literature"/porn and degeneracy similar to men, namely the denial of it. Necessary disclaimer I guess: I think men and women are both just swell and equal and shit. BUT. Women most certainly have definitely been degens as long and as varied as men have. Let's not say women don't metaphorically fart or that men are worse so end convo or whatever. I mean firstly we're on a site where all races, creeds, and both genders are shown as sometimes cool or batshit insane unless you remain willfully ignorant.
Anyway for context and fun, we'll jump in and start with like our grandparent's times. Grandpappy would read little books about cowboys that were self inserts that did cool crap, struggled but persevered, yadayada, and most likely a buxom woman falls in love with them and is a ride or die. Depending on the author you'd also get some banger sex scenes too, yeah. A lot do end there, but grandmammy? You ever seen the sheer *thousands* in small areas, of small books, a cover of which with what on a male-centric book would be conan with his ho-of-the-week? Or like casanova holding a big titted, scantily clad, red haired chick? Those were for women. "Bodice rippers", ho! Of course there's some in Christian book stores etc, same for male centric, but the majority were not wholesome puritan books where a fair maiden is courted and then a big marriage and fade to black sex scene, no, grandmammy supported and wanted to read a chick, self insert, sometimes strong/independent sometimes a cinderella type, do cool crap struggle but persevere yadayada BUT MOST CERTAINLY get her back blown tf out in new and exciting scenarios by not-conan or not-braveheart or not-prime arnold that saw self insert and knew she was his eternal love, and upon her death he will flat out ACK himself.
Yes men have weird porn or hentai or niche fetishes, but I respond with PARANORMAL ROMANCE, also known as the pretty popular subgenre of your Twilight type stuff, your vampires etc but also furries ranging from man that growls to full on dog, sometimes dog on dog or dog on woman depending on the author/plot. It's straight up female centric monstergirl/boy hentai in written form. further down the rabbit hole we get mpreg etc but that'd probably be brushed off as too small a normie sample size. but maybe you say "no, twilight was only popular with a small group and nobody got invested into it or thought it wasn't crap". your honor, item b. COLLEEN HOOVER. incest, abuse, explicit sex scenes. and theres also books like by hannah grace with icebreaker, with like a kid comic cover but with explicit sex scenes straight with men going for that ass. those aren't in erotica aisles either those are at walmart beside harry potter or lotr. and you know what? none of those books have adult content advisories. zero. ive only ever seen advisories on women centric books in dark corners of book stores with women centric paranormal romance with a focus on basically danger close furry/actual bestiality-lite where it's just basically occassionally a wolf no were like wolf tales by kate douglas.
And THAT'S funny because I've read both men and women-centric books, and since hentai was brought up, let's say you enter any books a million/other book seller, let's say you go to the manga. EVERYTHING has parental advisory when there's so much as a tit. vast majority of stuff with it is at highest point very softcore porn, like a modern beach, but of course that's actual imagery. even light novels though, images included, almost always avoid explicit sex. yes there's loopholes, mc falling into a girls buttcheeks slightly offscreen etc, but actual explicit stuff is actively difficult to acquire, and what's on shelves with actual explicit content is mostly stuff that's fully plastic wrapped and takes it quite seriously like A Girl By The Shore or Berserk. Stuff like manga and light novels, american comics too for that matter are regulated very seriously and measures however light are taken to reduce chances a 10 year old or something reads the berserk eclipse or horse scene, no such measures are take with female centric romance novels at all, they're just not stigmatized at all besides stuff like people noticing them or their related works in school libraries.
but besides weirdly limited advisories and restrictions, of course in general it's fine, man or woman has a hard day or week or however long, they deserve to be able to read about chad or stacey self inserts beating evil, or when older, smashing or being smashed. it leads to biased and hypocritical mockery or insults though when you've got women that will check out your Icebreaker or latest Christine Feehan or JR Ward to read about a stacey trying to fit the sport's captains 9incher in and since there's no real knowledge of the writing or it's just kind of blanked out people react to it like they watched gone with the wind content wise. like a prospective male coomer will have to come up to the register with CAUTION ADULT CONTENT and a pink haired chick bending over sure, but a woman can walk up with "Ugly Love" in artsy font with water droplets or a half eaten apple, or a ice skater wholesomely talking to a hockey player, and yet that shit's got just as much cooming.
tldr the market speaks, and men enjoy being a james bond or a conan taking names and banging tf out a hot af blond spy love interest, and women enjoy being that woman. men and women also love real heavy literature with tons of paragraphs on existential dread, with or without smashing, but sometimes you need your fifty shades or your hentai or game of thrones even, a outlet for sexy shit, and that's ok. to deny that and to flip randomly in any romance book is to be willfully ignorant.
