Whenever I look at the cover of a men’s magazine I want to cry. There is no way on earth I could ever compare to the airbrushed perfection that graces the covers of those mags. Just seeing them (in every one of my guy friends’ bathrooms) sends me on a downward spiral that inevitably leads to emotional eating and tears.

And I guess guys are beginning to feel the same way!

A new study out of the University of Missouri has found that the super sexy models doing their super sexy poses in laddie mags like Maxim and FHM have been having a negative effect on men’s self esteem. Whereas men used to love checking these ladies out (in the privacy of their own bathrooms, if you know what I’m sayin’), now looking at these girl just makes them feel inferior.

“Pictures of hot women, the study found, were more disturbing to a guy’s body image than were pictures of men with rippling abs and bulging biceps.”

Men feel so crappy about themselves from looking at these unrealistic representations of women that they have been requesting more realistic looking models!

Can you believe that? I mean, you know and I know that the models in those mags are total fantasy and the furthest thing from real women, but who ever thought guys would agree? It is about time men jumped on the “there is no way in hell any woman looks like that and we want to see the real deal” bandwagon!

Maybe this finally means an end to the unrealistic beauty ideals we have in our society and a celebration of what women really look like. You know, without the aid of baby oil, Photo Shop and fake boobs.

Considering I’m a girl, I would say that I tend to watch porn a little more than usual. Sometimes so much so that my girlfriends think I’m strange—not that they don’t already think I’m strange for a million other reasons. I’ve even gone so far as downloading porno-flicks from my boyfriend’s share-files when I’ve become bored with the material I already have.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t sit in my room and watch Jenna take it from behind 24 hours a day, while burning out one double-A battery after another. I simply enjoy some erotic entertainment and a sexual “boost”—shall we say—every now and then, when pleasuring myself.

It’s totally natural.

While pornography is clearly an industry targeted at pleasing men—more so than women—it does have its moments when both men and women use it as a means of stirring sexual arousal; and more often than you would think.

In a recent study it was discovered that men tend to look at a woman’s face, more than anything else, when viewing a pornographic image. Whereas women reportedly focus more on genitalia and spend more time viewing images of other couples having sex, than men.

How often do you watch porn?

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