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Porn is violence against women

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Grennie · 23/01/2014 06:41

I have never been a supporter of porn, but it is only as I have read more feminist blogs and books that I have realised this is true, for the following reasons.

  1. Porn always objectifies women
  2. Most porn nowdays features men being violent to women as part of sex
  3. Porn gives out the message that women enjoy all kinds of degrading sex acts
  4. Porn teaches boys and girls unrealistic ideas of female sexuality

Thus porn has a negative impact on all women, whether you ever watch it or not.

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CuttedUpPear · 23/01/2014 13:05

Agree.
I'm so sorry to see the slide in this kind of consciousness since the eighties (when I were a lad, I mean young woman) to what we have now. Or rather what we have been putting up with until this recent third wave of feminism.

Beachcomber · 23/01/2014 13:00

Yes. Dworkin describes porn as hate speech against girls and women.

SabrinaMulhollandJjones · 23/01/2014 12:03

Yes. The violence and degradation part is the most worrying part for me - I hate it.

I hate that young people are beginning to think that this is what sex is a series of male-centric physical sex acts - no emotional connection at all.

CaptChaos · 23/01/2014 10:21

/agree

FloraFox · 23/01/2014 06:44

Yes.