okay i was reading this study and (x), itās about how anal sex is becoming normalised in intercourse between young adults due to pornography.
this is what men had to say about why they engage in it if women find it painful
While not all young men in the study wanted to have anal sex (eg, saying it was not for themā), many men said they encouraged one another to try the practice,and men and women said men wanted to tell their friends that they had had anal sex. Men in a group discussion said anal sex wasāsomething we do for a competitionā, andāevery holeās a goalā. By contrast, men and women said women risked their reputation for the same act, a sexual double standard familiar from previous literature.
men think coercion is normal
The idea that women would generally not wish to engage in anal sex, and so would need to be either persuaded or coerced, seemed to be taken for granted by many participants. Even in otherwise seemingly communicative and caring partnerships, some men seemed to push to have anal sex with their reluctant partne rdespite believing it likely to hurt her. Persuasion of women was a feature to a greater or lesser degree of most menās and womenās narratives abou tanal sex events, with repeated, emphatic requests from men commonly mentioned.Women seemed to take for granted that they would either acquiesce to or resist their partnersā repeated requests, rather than being equal partners in sexual decision-making.
coercive rape
Some men also described taking aātry it and seeā approach, where they anally penetrated a woman with their fingers or penis and hoped that she would not stop them.Shane told us if a woman saidānoāwhen he startedāputting [his]finger inā, he might keep trying:āI can be very persuasive [ā¦]. Like sometimes you just keep going, just keep going till they just get fed up and lety ou do it anywayā.āTry it and seeā generally either hurt the woman or wasāunsuccessfulā(from the manās point of view) in the sense of not penetrating āit just didnāt go in reallyā.(Jack) A verbalānoā from the woman did not necessarily stop anal penetration attempts.
conclusions
First, some menās narratives suggested that mutuality and consent for anal sex were not always a priority for them.Ā
Second, women being badgered for anal sex appears to be considered normal.
Third, the commonly circulating ideas that āeveryoneā enjoys it, and that women who do not are either flawed or simply keeping their enjoyment secret, help support the erroneous idea that a man pushing for anal sex is simply āpersuadingā his partner to do something that āmost girls would likeā.
Fourth, anal sex today appears to be a marker of(hetero)sexual achievement or experience, particularly for men.18The society which our interviewees inhabit seems to reward men for sexual experience per se(āevery holeās a goalā) and, to some extent, rewards women for compliance with sexuallyāadventurous āacts(enjoyment signifying not being naive, unrelaxed, etc),although women must balance this with the risk to their reputation. Women may also be under pressure to appear to enjoy or choose certain sexual practices: Gill describes a āpostfeminist sensibilityā in contemporary media, where women are expected to present them-selves as having chosen behaviours that conform to a stereotype of heterosexual male fantasy.
Fifth, many men do not express concern about possible pain for women, viewing it as inevitable. Less painful techniques (such as slower penetration) were rarely discussed.























