Thread: How is watching porn different than seeing a stripper?

Originally Posted by pigwidgeon

All you women who are okay with your man watching porn, and all you men who watch porn, why is it okay to watch porn but not go to a stripper? What's the difference, really? Both are real women doing sexual acts for the purpose of turning you on. One's on a computer screen and one's not, but they're both real women.

I understand now that porn is about fantasy for men. Is there a line because strippers are reality? I have trouble understanding this because women in porn are real women, too, although the medium through which you interact with them is different and men who are watching porn don't see them as real women.

For instance, I have a girlfriend who just got married whose husband watches porn occasionally and she doesn't care because she knows that is just his sexual fantasy and she doesn't think she has the right to take his sexual fantasies away from him. At his bachelor party, he didn't want a stripper, and once my friend bought him a lap dance and he was totally uncomfortable. So he watches porn but doesn't like strippers -- how are these two reconciled?

Also, what about the women performing each act? Why does society tend to look down on strippers (and prostitutes, for that matter) but celebrate porn stars? How are any of those things different?

Does the fact that it's through a screen make all the difference?

Think you answered your own question with the last line......

Porn for men would be fantasy, but a stripper well she is real, she is life, she is in front of him plus most strippers stop short at doing anything as much as they can see on a computer, they take their clothes of dangle over a pole, may show a bit, touch their breast but you don't see a man doing it to her on stage.

Well you do in Singapore.....

It's a completely different thing. In my books to watch.

I waitressed in my youth before going into Management and we visited a couple of those places as they were night clubs that were popular back then, some of the girls we got to know and they were just lost souls, seeing it as a way of income.

So, i can see your point that they are deemed degrading but i think if you asked a man, would you go out with a porn star, a stripper or a prostitute they would say no to the whole three.

If they are of course looking for a relationship.

As, in their eyes, all three are doing some form of showing their entire body to the world which they would not want anyone else to see.

Good question though.