The Influence of Hegemonic Pornography’s Imagery on the Construction of Buyers’ Masculine Sexual Desire: An Analysis of the Demand for Prostitution

Currently, one of the great challenges for feminism is confronting the different ways in which women’s bodies are commercialized in our society. One of these ways is prostitution and sexual slavery: phenomena where men pay to have sexual access to women’s bodies, among other things. This article pretends to analyse one of the causes of this form of commercialization: the construction of a buyer’s masculine sexual desire. To this end, we are going to study how hegemonic masculinity is constructed and the function of sexuality in it. After, we will analyse to what extent hegemonic pornography contributes to the objectifcation of women, collaborating in the construction of a masculine sexual desire that can lead men to consume prostitution.