Horny Issues

Well, to say that men are horny, is that an understatement, exaggeration or plain old fact? Many a times it has been considered as fact, the phrase being lobbed around ever since there are the formation of social groups or more affectionally known as friends. Does anyone remember what or who started the usage of the term horny? Almost all respondents would agree that it's definitely not one's parents. Odds would be that, one learns the term from friends. It might not even need to be heard in a direct conversation with someone, as a person within earshot of an active discussion will pick up the meaning of it pretty easily.

Are men horny? Without certain qualifiers, it cannot be taken as true. Men will become horny, due to natural impulses maybe, but it's not like they are horny 24/7 ( some would roll their eyes at this suggestion ). The term has been pushed to be solely attributed to men, however, when one discusses the usage of pornography it will become clear that there is a sustained effort to push the active label to women. In 'Ways of Seeing' it shows the female being the active participant in a nude painting and this could be applicable to pornography.

Huh? active participant? Tell me more you said? Well, the female actor will be addressing the viewer, engaging him in a gaze, acknowledging his existence while being engaged in the activity. It's like she doesn't care about the male actor, she cares about the viewer, making him feel that he should be in on the action. It is the watcher, the viewer that's the stud, who cares about the sometimes surgically enhanced actor who can do it all night long.

So, what? It means that, the porn moguls, makes use of the age old adage that men are horny, to perpetuate the porn industy. Men feel good that women act like they are the ones horny, so they can live with the idea that men are attractive sexually as well. Men are also safe in their could-be-mistaken belief that watching porn is cool, because men are supposed to be horny. And one might have heard of the study which shows that men think of sex every 7 seconds or so? It is done by a female researcher, so is it a biased study that perpetuates the idea?

Well, are men horny? Guess many will vouch for that. But the next question would be, is being horny bad?

Inspired by.. XXX <-- not named for privacy reasons, but you thought of sex didn't you?