Guard against harmful media sources? Steer her away from negative friends?
That’s right up there with intimating she can’t make her own decisions. It’s true that media and peers can send a lot of negative messages about a woman’s body. How about instead discussing any concerns you may have openly with your lady.

Actions I’d call Knightly:
Ensure your lady has free time to enjoy her hobbies – surprise her by doing the dishes or cooking or laundry so she can watch TV, go out with friends, or garden (whatever it is she likes)

Offer your lady resources/support on financial planning so that she never has to depend on anyone to pay the rent or buy food.

Support your lady learning self defense – women face a lot of violence, some of it physical, and knowing she can protect herself is a huge confidence builder.

Call out your friends when they say something demeaning about women – I hear ladies love this.

As for pornography, choose pornography you and your Lady both enjoy – if she wants to watch it should be enjoyable for her too.

The whole of this article is pretty damn awesome. I think the porn thing is a little too much of blanket statement (as I watch more porn than my mate does) but some people have their standards and respecting their feelings is an important part of relationships in general. Again, the porn part isn’t the focus of the article and people should relax and remember that these general rules of thumb will always have their exceptions and shouldn’t be taken as insults to a persons character.

Keep writing these awesome articles, my boyfriend and I love them and wholly agree!

you are really unrefined, to say the least. do you actually believe any woman who respects herself and has dignity would ever stay around you for long? you mention ego…as if you even comprehend what ego really is about. your ego is out of control screaming like a brat with a dirty diaper. actually, I don’t want to waste another minute with this reply, but I thought you should know that yes, I understand you need porn. because that’s all you get.

Please do be a real man and stop watching pornography.

Here is an interesting article in today’s New York Times that you might want to check out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/sports/olympics/22women.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Some particularly noteworthy excerpts:

“Women are slower than men in running, in swimming, in cycling. Whether it is a 100-meter race on the track or a marathon, a 200-meter butterfly swim or a 10-kilometer marathon swim, the pattern holds.”

“And even though some scientists once predicted that women would eventually close the gender gap in elite performances — it was proposed that all they needed was more experience, better training and stronger coaching — that idea is now largely discredited, at least for Olympic events.”

“Testosterone, Levine said, gives men what he calls a bigger and better-fueled engine. Their skeletal muscles, which do the work during exercise, are bigger. And their hearts, which provide fuel for the work, are bigger, too.”

“Testosterone also changes the makeup of muscles. Women, with their lower testosterone levels, end up with a smaller proportion of Type 2 muscle fibers, which are used to generate speed and power and strength.”