“Seeing her in pleasure gives me pleasure”: Pornography viewing and the sociology of pleasure
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Feminist writers have long argued that women's genuine pleasure has been neglected in pornography, often suggesting that this is because most viewers are men who care only (or primarily) about men's pleasure. I examine these claims relying on interviews with more than 300 men and women from a variety of countries and cultural backgrounds who watch pornography regularly. The findings suggest that, contrary to common belief, there are many similarities between what women and men say is most important for them to see in pornography, namely representations of women's genuine pleasure. I conclude that pornography that convincingly features female performers' pleasure is therefore not merely “female‐friendly”; it is “viewer‐friendly.” I examine viewers' explanations for these preferences and highlight the contributions of this study to the emerging sociology of pleasure subfield, as well as the sociology of positive emotions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it