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Since I frequently cover adult entertainment news and have recently written about events like the Feminist Porn Awards and other sex-positive stories, my regular readers will have guessed at my position on pornography: Adult entertainment can be empowering for both those who make it and those who consume it, and informed consumers can find their way to plenty of female-friendly -- and even feminist -- adult materials if, like me, that's what they happen to be looking for.
But, of course, pornography is not all wine and roses either, and many progressive feminists are still firmly in the opposite camp. Case in point: Next month Wheelock College in Boston will host the Stop Porn Culture Conference on June 12-13, a forum for academic discussion about sex, culture, power dynamics, morality, and perceived harmful effects of pornography on individuals, on society as a whole, and on mainstream American and international culture, as well as a rallying point for various groups working in various ways to stop the spread of porn culture.
Via StopPorn Culture.org:
In March 2007, over 500 people gathered at a conference in Boston to help re-ignite a progressive and feminist movement against pornography. Our second national conference will once again bring together activists, researchers, survivors, parents, and other concerned community members to continue developing our anti-pornography analysis and building our resistance movement. Come and join us for two days of keynotes, workshops, and discussion.
The conference will feature a keynote speech by Wheelock College Sociology and Women's Studies professor Dr. Gail Dines, a founding member of Stop Porn Culture and co-author of the 1997 book Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. Other presentations include “A Power Paradox: The Online Commercial Pornography Industry Network,” "Making Hate: Porn, Sex and the Destruction of Intimacy," "Self Exploitation: The Slippery Slope of Self-Made Porn," "The Personal Hazards of Porn," "From Jekyll to Hyde: The Grooming of Male Pornography Consumers," and Dr. Carolyn West's charmingly titled "Hip-Hop Honeys, Nappy Headed Hoes, and Hustlaz: the Pornofication of Hip Hop Music and Videos" (yes, even African American feminists can be egregiously inappropriate in their analyses of pop culture).
On Saturday night they'll be screening Jane Caputi's The Pornography of Everyday Life and Miguel Picker & Chyng Sun's The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships (left). Sunday workshops include "Pornography and Law: New Approaches," "Anti-Pornography Organizing On The Internet," "Working With Men," "International Anti-Pornography Organizing," and "College Students, Hook-Up Culture and Pornography: A Discussion."
To register for the conference, visit www.StopPornCulture.org
What do you think? Are porn and feminism compatible?Incompatible? Fire away in the comments section below!
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Actually, I do think that defending porn and feminism are totally compatible...but,then again, I also happen to think that Stop Porn Culture is nothing more than a stalking horse for the Puritan "Left" who simply uses porn as a scapegoat and a symbol for their own myopias about sexuality and sexual expression.
I also find it totally offensive that this group is promoted in the media as the sole "left"/"progressive" position on porn and sexual expression....as if people like Nina Hartley, Susie Bright, Tristian Taormino, and Susan Block don't even exist. And that doesn't even include the men who are progressive and pro-porn that are maligned and smeared consistently by Dines and her group.
I only wish that those not quite as obsessed with making sexual speech a crutch for their censorship campaigns would be allowed an equal amount of publicity.
Anthony
Criminal behavior involved in some porn industries is different from choices made by women who have their own reasons for engaging in posing, movie-making, etc. Exploitation comes in a lot of forms, including work places that don't involve nudity and sex. Choices might end up be wrong but that is what feminism preaches....choices
I'm reading a book right now on the issue, and it's both fascinating and horrifying to discover some of the hidden health dangers of watching porn. Sharewik.com recently posted a very sad story, one that's been shared in other venues as well (Marnia Robinson of Psychology Today writes on the topic) linking ED to excessive porn watching. There are growing numbers of young men, teenagers even, who can't sustain an erection with a real woman, they've seen so much. The process of 'curing' them is quite painful to read about, much like drug withdrawals. My point is that this is a comples issue, and we must take a very careful, cautious look at the consequences of so much readily available porn.
Count me among those who find no compatibility problems between feminism and porn, but then again you may be preaching to the proverbial choir here, Sarah, as your regular readers are likely to be more familiar with the names Anthony Kennerson mentions below (Nina Hartley, Susie Bright, Tristan Taormino, Susan Block, and many more) than with groups like Stop Porn Culture. I think it's worth giving you [and the many other sex-positive women writing about sex on the regular, or working in front of an behind the cameras on some of these adult films] some credit for that shift! Come out, come out, wherever you are and say it with me: I'm a feminist and I love porn! Well, okay: *some* porn. At any rate, there is plenty to talk about here, and it doesn't necessarily have to be about he black/white morality of right/wrong, left/right, etc. Interesting discussion here so far, and I'll be back to see how it develops! Thanks for starting it here, Sarah!
I think Porn starring, directed / produced by women is a great example of ultimate feminine choice freedom achieved in western culture.
Are there negative results for some performers / users? Yes. Are there exploitative situations part of available on-line porn? Probably. But this is also true of almost any 'industry' or commodity available in a market economy. BP's spill reaction in
the Gulf is a great example.
Those that seek to stop porn, most probably have misplaced good intentions. Stopping porn will not stop exploitation, abuse, human trafficing, addiction to sexual experience/material or negative gender/glbt opinions. Helping porn/sex work industry police itself and focusing on society as a whole are the only hope of fighting the above problems.
Porn that is made responsibly provides a great deal of positive oulet for performers and audience alike. Regrdless of gender/glbt.
While I'd agree that there is room for a very interesting academic discussion and feminist analysis of pornography and its effects on our culture, it's a mistake to frame this particular conference as such! Although the Stop Porn Culture conference is being hosted on a college campus and includes some people with academic backgrounds, this event is clearly billed in the quote above as an "anti-pornography analysis" and "resistance movement." In other words, conflicting viewpoints (such as those voiced in this comments section) don't appear to be welcome. Doesn't sound like a particularly academic forum to me... more like a witch hunt!
I'm a feminist pornographer. I agree that there is an awful lot wrong with mainstream porn and the way it presents sex and sexuality. But as JB says, this conference is framed in such a negative manner that it probably won't include alternative voices in the discussion. It also seems to want to make use of the "porn addiction" paradigm, so popular with fundamentalist Christians and one that is extremely problematic and built on bad science. For me, the solution is changing porn, not banning it.
I've never heard ONE feminist say to ban it...you are lying
Feminist women had such a huge part in making the world equal between sexes. They gave women more power then ever before in history and basically said "we don't need husbands, boyfriends, fathers, or any other man telling us what to do or when to do it AND we will be heard!". Women could decide what they wanted for themselves. This was largely influenced by feminists. And now this same group is divided because some of these same feminist women say "yeah but they shouldn't be able to CHOSE to be in pornography". Thats such ... a double standard IMHO!
Reading through the list of presentations, I shake my head. Every single one of them is based on one thing: FEAR. Be afraid, girls-- afraid of your bodies, afraid of your own sexuality, be afraid of men, because they only want you for one thing--RAPE. I'm sorry, but it makes me sick to my stomach. Did anyone forget to tell these people Andrea Dworkin has gone to the great beyond...and so has many of her ideas?
Reading through the list of presentations, I shake my head. Every single one of them is based on one thing: FEAR. Be afraid, girls-- afraid of your bodies, afraid of your own sexuality, be afraid of men, because they only want you for one thing--RAPE. I'm sorry, but it makes me sick to my stomach. Did anyone forget to tell these people Andrea Dworkin has gone to the great beyond...and so has many of her ideas?
Oh my, this is a painful post to read! Andrea Dworkin was one of the most outspoken anti-pornography feminists ever! Her feminist teachings are not even taught in many women's studies courses any longer because Third-Wave Feminism and this "pro-sex" stance has all but blacklisted her works from being taught! Yikes, don't evoke Dworkin in such a slanderous way!
"anti-pornography analysis" as oppose to pornography analysis... biased anybody?. What about gay porn, should we put an end to that one too?
Uh, no porn is not fear of women's bodies. Porn is fear of the very real misogynist messages that are promoted by porn and enacted upon women.
This is not about "puritanism" which is the typical knee-jerk criticism when one opposes porn, it is about the very real women that are harmed by porn, via AIDS, rough/violent "sex" that even lands them in the hospital from internal bleeding, and the misogynist attitudes that porn condones: sexualizing abuse of women, sexualizing domination of women, sexualizing rape/incest/pedophelia, sexualizing racism, etc. These are issues that feminists fight against, not support as "sexy".
Porn is as liberating to women as the KKK is to black people. In other words, it isn't. You might get off on it, but don't pretend that these attitudes are in any way feminist because they are not.
WomensLiberation (WL) ....There is a TON of porn produced BY WOMEN, STARRING WOMEN, AIMED AT WOMEN audiences. WL wants a world where she defines sexy and sexual boundaries, for all women while removing what I believed was the point of Women’s Lib – choice and accountability free from reprisals in society. Isn’t this misogyny? Denying women choices and refusing to believe women independent enough to make their own choices.
WL, why are you not concerned with the male performers in porn? If the women are being abused simply because porn exists, wouldn’t the men be equal victims?
WL please familiarize yourself with women produced / oriented porn and don’t make blanket assumptions based on your gender bias. People mistreat people. A fact. Did so before the wide variety and volume of on-line porn that now exists. Will if porn goes away. Rape fantasy comments from women performers make me cringe, but a comment cannot allow you access into that person’s soul to know if they are a v
(biiiig inhale, and)...ictim or not. I think if we focus on helping those who need help, you won’t have to hide from the ills by saying ‘make it go away so I can pretend that all is well.
With all due respect WL, your response is one of separation and exclusion that is counter-productive.
Re: Women's Liberation
Where to begin with this. This is the standard rhetoric we've been hearing from the feminist anti-porn crowd for the last 30 years. Women are forced into porn and are tortured in the making of it. Porn turns men into misogynists who enact atrocities on women's bodies. Never mind that on closer investigation, these over-the-top claims are groundless. Even if one acknowledges that the porn industry is far from perfect.
And as for charges of "puritanism", well, if the shoe fits. First, it is entirely possible to come from a secular POV and still be puritanical. Especially since the anti-porn movement uses porn as a wedge issue to condemn broader areas of sexuality (eg, BDSM). One need only look at leading anti-porn scholars and some of the positions they take on sexuality. Can anybody tell me with a straight face that somebody like Sheila Jeffreys isn't in very real sense an extreme puritan?
BTW, it needs to be pointed out that Stop Porn Culture is part of an emerging larger right-wing/feminist anti-porn coalition called "Coalition for the War Against Illegal Pornography". Immediately after the above-mentioned conference, Gail Dines will be presenting alongside several well-connected right-wing figures to demand "enforcement" of existing obscenity laws as well as new legislation:
tinyurl(dot)com/WIP-Invitation1-pdf
@Women's Liberation: And thank you for giving me the biggest laugh I've had today.
First off, may I remind you that the porn industry has done WONDERS of self-regulating itself as far as spreading HIV and other STIs. The instance a few years ago, when a male performer had infected several women with HIV, ALL PORNOGRAPHY PRODUCTION HOUSES SHUT DOWN FOR A MONTH. And ALL performers were tested several times during that period, and nothing went into production until the threat was contained. May I also remind you that many female porn producers are also MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS: Nina Hartley is an RN. Sharon Mitchell is the Director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which she established in 1998 (Wikipedia). These women are EDUCATORS as well, speaking at many sex-positive events all over the country. In fact, many-- if not most-- of the women working and rtunning the porn idustry today are college educated, and many of those have advanced graduate degrees. (Rant cont')
NOTE: "Self-regualting itself". Sorry, grammar goes out the door when I get passionate.
Anyway, as far as your 'argument' that porn drives sexually-criminal behavior-- if you have a shred of scientific data that backs up that claim, I would be more than happy to read it. But as far as I know, there has never been a correllation b/w pornography and sexual violence. So your statement "Porn is to women's rights as the KKK is to black people" is about as laughable as " 'The French Connection' makes me want to do a high-speed car chase through downtown Manhattan." That's just downright silly.
May I suggest that before you go spouting archaic rhetoric about how women SHOULD feel about sex, that you EDCUATE yourself on varying practices of sexuality, including the psycho-sexual dynamics of BDSM and fetish. And yes, just in your post alone, fear was the prominent emotion. I'm sorry, but anyone who practices 'rough sex' in a serious manner KNOWS how to perform it w/out injuring a partner.
"you have the right to swing your fist as much as you want until it hits my face"
basically if you don't like porn don't watch it.
and don't tell me I am wrong for watching it.
Others have said that you made them laugh and that they need scientific evidence. I am evidence. I was beaten for arguing that pornography was wrong. I later got tired of fighting it, so I joined it. I heard many a married man say many a fowl thing that one woman can't satisfy a man, that they would leave their wives of 15 years. I was beaten my another man when I left him and the business. I just recently filed a divorce from my husband of 8 years who just stole about $3000 from our children's college savings to go see strippers. I left him and got attacked and beaten!!!! I am a victim. My children are victims. Censor. Censor. Censor.
So you're going to blame porn for the actions of adult men? It couldn't simply be the fact that these men are bad news, could it?
Daunted by the task? Yes, I know, actually fighting the soul-breaking, multi-generational, physically dangerous battle against institutional sexism until its gone is way harder than literally getting-off on a table scrap allowed and defined by the power structure. You only get power from porn as long as you cooperate with objectification. But feminist, as if porn somehow undermines patriarchy? You're ******* joking, right?
Im not surprised so many call porn a sexual "right" in a culture we learn to accept that the powerful may use their industrial "rights" while polluting the rest our lives. Porn pollutes because it effects us all, whether we watch or not: it has shaped society, hyper activated the old gender inequalities the "Women's Lib Movement" tried to destroy. There is plenty of research to back up the (almost always permanent) psycho-physiological changes in a porn watcher. Not that you care to face that argument or any of the others you misrepresent and or ignore. Feminist
How is showing/watching even the most loving sex scene not LITERALLY OBJECTIFYING the act??? See, the picture is an object, representing something, but it is not that something. Uh, have you tried sex, for its own sake, with a partner, for their sake, whos there for your sake, all at once? Oh right, in this sick culture, probably not too often. Anti-porn is not a prudish or anti sex position. Sex is awesome. Porn is not sex. It is objectification of sex & people. So you feel sexy when you reduce real people and real things into objects? Yes, im afraid you are ****** up. Selfish predation of another's life for masturbation, at best. Not really a personal failure on your part, more of a consequence of living in a sociopath culture. For me there has been one lasting positive effect from porn: it helps me remember NOT to objectify my in-the-flesh, in-the-moment experiences with the person in the room. This person is not a meat puppet to make my daydream of someone else more real.
How is objectifying something necessarily wrong? Are all paintings that represent something real in the physical world bad? Should we burn all of them? Because after all such paintings are clearly objectifying things. You can't argue against that, as it is plainly obviously a cold hard fact of reality: art objectifies. Further, and more relevant in this case, is the question of whether or not you think that we should ban art that specifically depicts nudity, sexual intercourse, etc. Such art would objectify sex and sexuality in the same fundamental manner as photographs of actual sex and sexuality. If you don't think so, then where would you draw the line, and who gets to make the rules? Who gets to be the one who forces their subjective morality onto everyone else via the point of a gun (i.e. via the utilization of the govt.) And an even simpler question that is similar to my earlier ones: Do we not objective a thing the moment that we look at that thing?
Are you stupid???? Humans aren't THINGS!!!!!
The pro-porn comments here mischaracterize the conference and movement. Porn culture is so dominant nowadays that forums such as this that challenge it exclusively are needed to provide minimal balance and foster true critical thought about the subject. Many pro-porners reveal their own intolerance of intellectual diversity by harassing and ridiculing the organizers. They resort to name calling, stereotypes, and other distortions as a substitute for serious analysis. Violet Blue's video epitomizes this tendency. They tarnish the movement by calling it "anti-sex," thereby equating all sex with the type of commodified, objectified sex they apparently favor (and have come to view as "natural," despite much cross-cultural and historical evidence to the contrary). They defend all porn by celebrating so-called "good porn" that supposedly minimizes violence/humiliation. It constitutes a tiny minority of that currently produced and consumed, and it still objectifies and commodifies sexuality.
How is showing/watching even the most loving sex scene not LITERALLY OBJECTIFYING the act??? See, the picture is an object, representing something, but it is not that something. Uh, have you tried sex, for its own sake, with a partner, for their sake, whos there for your sake, all at once? Oh right, in this sick culture, probably not too often. Anti-porn is not a prudish or anti sex position. Sex is awesome. Porn is not sex. It is objectification of sex & people. So you feel sexy when you reduce real people and real things into objects? Yes, im afraid you are ****** up. Selfish predation of another's life for masturbation, at best. Not really a personal failure on your part, more of a consequence of living in a sociopath culture. For me there has been one lasting positive effect from porn: it helps me remember NOT to objectify my in-the-flesh, in-the-moment experiences with the person in the room. This person is not a meat puppet to make my daydream of someone else more real.
i <3 porn
Do you know what's great about America? People have freedoms here. Women have the right to do whatever they want with their body. If you are anti-pornography, why not be anti-abortion as well? At least women can speak for or against pornography. Babies, on the other hand, cannot speak for themselves obviously.
Men who used to use pornography when they were younger who are now anti-pornography anti-sexist anti-male violence educators include, former all star high school football player Jackson Katz who wrote the great important book,The Macho Paradox How Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help and he writes about how pornography sexualizes men's power,woman hatred,sexual objectification and dehumanization and subordination of women,and this is all connected to male violence,and gender inequality,and how the pornography industry has sold this woman-hatred and men's power as normal and liberating to the public.
Therapist Russ Funk who is a anti-racist,anti-sexist,anti-male violence educator has written books and articles on this as well and he had a chapter ,What Pornography Says About Me(n) in the book,Not For SAle:Feminists Resisting Prostitution & Pornography in which he said that when he used pornography he saw all women as just f*ckable even women he saw in classes,busi
business coleagues and women on the street .He said being commited to justice and using pornography is inherently contradictory,because one can not look at others as fully equal,empowered,dynamic human beings if one is also looking at them through the pornographic gaze.He also did a presentation in 2006 at The Center For Women Children and Families,Pornography What's The Harm?
And Robert Jensen has written great articles and his important book,Getting Off Pornography And The End Of Masculinity.And Dr.Michael Flood's recent report is great too.John Stoltenberg's excellent 1989 book,Refusing To Be A Man Essays On Sex and Justice that consists of brilliant important speaches he made from the late 70's -the late 80's also discusses how pornography sexualizes male supremacy, sexism,woman hatred,violence,male dominance and female submission and subordination of women,and makes it feel and seem like sex to people and even makes sexism necessary for people to have sexual feelings and arou
arousal.He co-founded Men Against Pornography In New York.
Brooklyn College psychology professor Dr.Robert Brannon was a co-chair with Phylis B.Frank for 20 years from 1990 of The New York NOW's Task Force on the harms of pornography,trafficking, and prostitution and he is co-founder of NOMAS National Organization For Men Against Sexism and he;s the organization's group leader of their Task Force on prostitution and pornography.THere islso a n excellent recent report by pro-feminist Australian gender studies and sociology professor Dr.Michael Flood,The Harms Of Pornography Exposure Among Children And Young People and he also includes a lot of great research studies about the effects on adult users.He explains that Adults also show an increase in behavioral agression following exposure to pornography including non-violent or violent depictions of sexual activity (but not nudity) with stronger effects for violent pornography.He has a lot of researchers as references.
Dr.Flood also then explains that n studies of pornography use in everyday life,men who are high frequency users of pornography and men who use 'hardcore',violent, or rape pornography are more likely than others to report that they would rape or sexually harass a woman if they knew they could get away with it.And they are more likely to actually perpetrate sexual coercion and agression.His reference for this is studies by psychologist Neil Malamuth et al 2000.
Rhea from the sadly former Women's Alliance Against Pornography Education Project in Cambridge,back in January 1993 sent me many cartoons from Playboy and Penthouse of women being sexually harassed,used and sexually servicing their male bosses in the work place and they are horrible! The Women's Alliance Against Pornography put their own captions under the cartoons under a Penthouse cartoon of a man saying to his boss,who is holding a photocopy of just a woman's huge breasts with no head,"This is my Christmas bonus? A xerox photo of your secretary's t*ts?" THe Women's Alliance Against Pornography wrote that Porn reduces women to the make-up of her body parts.
The Women's Alliance Against Pornography wrote that Men are threatened by the concept of women's equality under a Penthouse cartoon of a woman sitting on top of a phallic type nuclear warhead sucking on it with her legs open grasped around the tip of it,and The Penthouse caption has a man in a uniform talking t
talking to another man,saying,"Miss Oppenhawn,the newest member of our staff is a nuclear warhead specialist."
The Women's Alliance Against Pornography wrote that Porn teaches men that the only way of succeeding is by prostituting herself thereby removing the threat of equality.They wrote this under a Penthouse cartoon of a woman journalist with her hand in a man's pants, and the Penthouse caption said,"Here I am again folks,out scooping those male journalists by interviewing an otherwise unapproachable diplomat.I suppose you're all wondering how I do it."Another from Playboy has a female employee with an upset humiliated expression on her face standing in front of her male boss's desk with papers in her hand that she's leaning on his desk, and the male boss says to her,"I had the most asmusing dream last night.Miss Grant-I dreamed you performed an unnatural sex act upon me."
Another Penthouse cartoon shows a woman standing outside of her boss's office with the word President on the door and she's talking to another woman,her co-worker and she has a huge candy cain stuck in her backside,and she says to her co-worker,"I guess you can't expect much of a Chrstmas Bonus this year."The Women's Alliance Against Pornography wrote under this,Pornography elicits contempt for women.
A cartoon from Playboy had a male boss with an angry expression on his face barricading a woman employee on her desk with both of his arms around her,and she's leaning away from him with a screaming upset expression on her face.The Women's Alliance Against Pornography included this cartoon under their heading,Pornography elicits contempt for women.
Another Playboy cartoon has a woman military officer looking upset and humiliated standing with two male military officers while one of them cuts her uniform off into pieces and she's nude.There are other women military officer
officers standing further in the backround on the side.The Playboy caption says,"Usually we just cut off the buttons."
Another from Penthouse has a male news caster sitting at a news desk reporting the news with a woman with big breasts in a low cut top sitting next to him.Penthouse's caption has the male news caster saying, "Chet Carey here bringing you the news along with Miss Clover to provide relief by displaying her t*ts."Another Penthouse cartoon has male doctors operating on a patient,while only a woman's lower part of her body and legs are shown under one of the male doctors clothes,and their caption has him saying,"More suction".
The Women's Alliance Against Pornography wrote under these that Woman's only attributes are in her sexuality.Another cartoon from Penthouse has a nude big busted woman in bed with her male boss,and he's smoking his after sex cigarette and she says,"Incidentally,I'm sorry I turned you in at the office for sexual harassment!"
Another from Playboy has a male boss sitting behind a desk with a sign up behind him that says,Last-Minute Suggestions and his female employee is walking away holding a folder in her hand with an upset expression on her face,and the she says,"*Please* Mr.Fergusen! You can keep those last minute suggestions to yourself!."
Psychiatrist Linnea Smith sent me two huge folders of important research and information on the harms of pornography(she thanked me for my important efforts educating people on the harms of porn,and she said it's especially difficult because the public is desensitized,and the media is reluctant to criticize other media,especially sexually explicit media) back when I wrote her and told her about my experience as a big busted beautiful 13 year old girl being molested by teen boys who used Playboy and how they even made references to the women in it and how one of the boys shoved a pornographic magazine into my face and said,here's a picture of a girl fingering
herself.Included in the research Dr.Smith sent me was other Playboy cartoons of women being sexually harassed on the job by their male bosses.Dr.Smith wrote on top of this photocopied page which has these cartoons on both sides, Job Harassment Sexual Harassment In The Workplace Has Been For Years A Popular Them For Cartoons In *Playboy* Magazine.One of these cartoons is of an overweight male boss with his femalke employee with an upset expression on her face trying to push him away and the caption has him saying,"Ms Beasly why are you resisting I voted for the ERA."(the Equal Rights Amendment that was never passed).Another has a male boss in his office saying to his female employee,You want equality? Next time we'll do it on your desk."
Playboy also promoted child sex abuse, including ,gang rapes of women and children,incest, and sexual murders of women and children as normal and as jokes in thousands of cartoons,articles and even some pictures for over 30 years!
Also Mark Wukas wrote in the Chicago Tribune March 21 1993 that back in 1989 research by psychologist Dr.James Check at York University's psychology department Toronto Canada found 29% of boys indicated that pornography was the most useful source of sex information including school.parents teachers and peers.He said that to find out what children were learning from the pornography, Check devised a questionnaire that asked under what circumstances is it OK for a boy to hold a girl down and force her to have sexual intercourse.Check found that 43# of the boys and 16% of the girls said that holding a woman down and forcing sexual intercourse is at least maybe OK if she gets him sexually excited.His findings also found that one third of 14-year old boys and 2% of girls watch video pornography regularly.
Also, Robert Jensen explains in his great important book,Getting Off:Pornography And The End Of Masculinity whatever the genesis of the c*m shot in
s**t in the history of pornography we can ask why it continues.He then asks what does the c*m shot mean? He says in one of the first films he watched for his study of pornography was the 1990 porn video Taboo VIII and one of the male characters offers an answer.He says that when this man refuses the request of a woman(whom he feels is a sl*t) to have intercourse with her he tells her,"I don't f**k sl*ts I j*rk off on them.Take it or leave it.'' He then ejac*lates on her breasts.Robert Jensen says that this suggests that ejac*lating onto a woman is a method by which she is turned into a sl*t,something -not really someone-whose purpose is to be sexual with men.He then says ejac*lating onto her body marks her as a "sl*t" which in pornography is synonymous with "woman".
He then says that that assessment was echoed by a veteran of the pornography industry (porn star and director Bill Margold),who told an interviewer:I'd like to really show what I believe the men want to see viol
violence against women.I firmly believe that we serve a purpose by showing that.The most violent we can get is the c*um shot in the face.Men get off behind that,because they get even with the women they can't have.We try to inundate the world with orgasms in the face.
Bill Morgold also said,My whole reason for being in the Industry is to satisfy the desire of the men in the world who basically don't care for women and want to see the men in my Industry getting even with the women they couldn't have when they were growing up.I strongly believe this,and the Industry hates me for saying it...So when we come on a woman's face or somewhat brutalize her sexually :we're getting even for their lost dreams.I believe this.I've heard audiences cheer me when I do something foul on screen.When I've strangled a person,or brutalized a person,the audience is cheering my action,and then when I've fulfilled my warped desire,the audience applauds.
Feminist anti-porn educator Sociologist Dr.Gail Dines said that many of her female students told her that their boyfriends are constantly pressuring them to the things they see in pornography,that they have seen it in the pornograohy and now they want to experience it in real life.She said that many young women are so desperate to have a man in their lives that they will often give in and do these things even though their instincts are telling them don't do it.
Dr.Chyng Sun also reports that many women have told her that their boyfriends and husbands are constantly asking them to the things they have seen in pornography and they don't want to.On quite a few message boards over the years I have seen posts by men asking women if they like to have or will let their boyfriends or husbands c*m on their faces like they do in the porn videos.One women made a topic about 5 years ago called,Some Men's Disgusting Obsession and she said her boyfriend constantly wants her to let hi
ejaculate on her face and she said she feels it's disgusting and degrading and she said he watches a lot of porn videos and she knows thats where he got the idea. A guy responded and said that a lot of young men are watching a lot of pornography on the internet today and they learn to think it's sexy to ejaculate on a woman's face or body.
Another guy posted on an "Adult" Site where they had advice questions and anwers and he posted that he ejaculated on his girfriend's face and she was very angry and upset and she left him for good.But he couldn't understand why and what he did wrong because he said his girl friend was always wild in bed and he said he watches a lot of porn videos and all of the porn stars love facials.On LoveShack.org a guy said that he and other men he knew said that it never occurred or appealed to them to ejaculate on a woman's face or body,only inside her vaginally,until they saw it in pornography.Many women have also said their husbands and boyfriends are
Many women have also said their husbands and boyfriends are pressuring them to have anal sex after seeing women in pornography portrayed as if they love it.
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Letter to advertiser and response to Playboy publisher
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Pornography and Rape Culture
Question: Pornography helps to create a rape culture.
Results:
Strongly agree 35.4%
Agree 22.7%
Some pornography does 18.8%
Disagree 11.0%
Strongly Disagree 8.4%
I have no idea 3.6%
Responses: 308
The results of this poll do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Men Can Stop Rape. The results are not scientific and solely reflect the opinions of those Internet users who have participated.
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P.O. Box 57144 Washington, DC 20037
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The important organization,Men Can Stop Rape discusses how men's sexuality has been socilaized by pornography.And online there is What Men Can Do To Stop Rape by Jack Straton,one of the many things on the lost,is pornography.He says pornography is pictures of prostitution;it erotices inequality and often portrays women enjoying rape.Always it is degrading and dehumanizing.Many young men have their first sexual exoerience with pornography.Pornography plays a huge part in the construction of male sexual idenity;it socializes men to sexually objectify,sexually harass and rape.
On THerapist Russ Funk's site he has many anti-violence anti-sexist,anti-racist,anti-homophobic workshops,and he has 3 on the harms of pornography.He also wrote a book in 1993,Stopping Rape:A Challenge For Men and he includes pornography as one of the causes of rape culture because it sexualizes and normalizes men's power,dominance and objectification of women.
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