About: The same is true of her call for a discrimination of pornographies: 'various pornographies operate differently, cater to different audiences and elicit different sexual response'. […] Certainly, the pornographies which circulate among us include some directed specifically at women — not just the pornography of emotions on which Mills and Boon romances capitalise so successfully, nor even religious pornography like Colleen McCullough's The thorn birds (1977), which offers Roman Catholic women the vicarious thrills of sexual relations with a priest — but precisely the kind of pornography that in some feminist criticism is assumed to be for men only.       Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink