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Originally Posted by MGlitch
My issue with 'mommy porn' as a term is it doesn't accurately describe the type of books that folks seem to lump with it. It should either be porn which features the mommy fetish, or which far and away is read nearly exclusively by mothers. It's very easy to see if a book features a mommy fetish, and I would argue the vast majority of the books typically lumped in to 'mommy porn' do not. It's a statistics nightmare to try and conclusively prove that such a limited* yet varied** demographic is the, essentially, sole reader of said content.
*far under half the population would be mothers. Only slightly more can become mothers.
** Yet within that group you will see the gamut of the human condition, rich, poor, all races, all ethnicities, virtually all sexual orientations, etc. this is the equivalent of trying to get a large group of people to all agree on the best kind of Pizza.
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You are welcome to have any perspective about what the meaning of any word SHOULD be.
When I first heard the term in the eighties it was used to refer to porn read primarily by women, at a time when much of society still clung to the notion that sexual desire for its own sake acted out upon aggressively or even alone was not just primarily a masculine trait...but so rare in women as to be almost exclusively male. It was meant as a slap in the face to neovictorians, certain religious circles, and a misandric sliver of feminism. Across the nineties the figures on the sales of Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" series and the burgeoning sex toy sales were used to stuff that gauntlet with sand and deliver a heavier blow.
Then the awful "Shades of Gray" books were written, and it was pointed out that women would even indulge in porn as sloppily written as the cookie cutter fake letters genre.
I still see the term used the same way. I have, in fact used the term myself in that way. I have not (that I can recall) been in an actual verbal conversation where the "Mommy Porn" term was used to refer to romance novels as a whole. That seems to me to setting up a straw man. It's just a term invented to needle an audience the people who coined it deemed both self righteous and self deceiving.