Just as jealousy varies by sex—men are more likely to be jealous of physical infidelity, women are more likely to be jealous of emotional infidelity45—so too do the target audiences of porn and erotica vary by sex. In general, women prefer erotica,46 which brings with it a backstory, as it were. Porn, targeting that third sexual strategy, reduces human bodies to our constituent parts, and puts a premium on extreme sexual acts as a result of economic competition for attention.
