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Old 05-12-2016, 10:51 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Sure it is. Mainly because mommy porn doesn't really exist. And if it did, its definition would be different for everyone that used it; and it wouldn't only be mommies that read it. Hence the pointlessness and dismissiveness of the term. It's an unnecessary stereotyping of the demographic that reads it. There's no "mommy scifi," or "mommy mystery", or "mommy thriller", so why the need for a "mommy porn?"
Exactly. Is anyone calling erotica consumed by men of late reproductive age and a bit older - "daddy porn"? No. So why are women readers of that age referred to as "mommies"? Has anyone actually studied whether women reading this subgenre of erotica have reproduced more than the general population? What's the basis of deciding that their primary descriptor should be "mommy"?

It's just another flavour of sexism. Related, but not the same, as people trying to describe a typical ignorant tech user as "your mom" "your grandma", or "your old aunt".
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