Anonymous1: Note: This is a more accurate depiction of a female orgasm than the tearful depictions shown by doujinshi artists who have never studied human sexuality. Orgasm results in a general tensing of the body. Hentai depictions of female orgasm, however, look more like the results of torture.
iKami: Anon1, some of it's a cultural thing as a result of a male-dominated and largely misogynistic society. I think there are actually a few academic papers out on the subject of depictions of women in hentai.
iKami: I think it's going to vary on a case-by-case basis, Urbane, we could sit here all night and make a lot of generalizations that can be disproved by naming artists.
I like to think that the preferences of the artist play a part. Like, artists focused on the viewer's pleasure (for the sake of blamethrowing, we'll call it the male perspective) will pull out all the stops for something that they see as, or that society has taught them is a "sexy" image. Contrariwise, a focus on the pleasure of the characters involved (we could call that a female perspective) might best be expressed in, as Anon1 said, posture and expression (even environment) to convey emotional content.
And that's not counting the artists that purposely draw unhappy sex. (Which I can't disparage too much, since I just drew and posted a pretty bummed-out picture of Frankie.)
anomalous: Although a lot of porn appeals to the specifically to the male gaze (that is usually who it is intended for after all), I personally find it refreshing to find pictures on which both or all parties involved (that is, characters) are enjoying their experience.
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I like to think that the preferences of the artist play a part. Like, artists focused on the viewer's pleasure (for the sake of blamethrowing, we'll call it the male perspective) will pull out all the stops for something that they see as, or that society has taught them is a "sexy" image. Contrariwise, a focus on the pleasure of the characters involved (we could call that a female perspective) might best be expressed in, as Anon1 said, posture and expression (even environment) to convey emotional content.
And that's not counting the artists that purposely draw unhappy sex. (Which I can't disparage too much, since I just drew and posted a pretty bummed-out picture of Frankie.)
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