India Knight on porn and violent sex becoming normalised

Well said Annasgirl, I agree

Oh dear God. As mothers if sons and daughters we have to take the lead and teach our children that this is wrong, on all levels. I am depressed to think young women are being forced to consent to anal sex and that society has normalised this. Why are we not allowed to shout No! This is not normal and it is not OK. And neither is porn. But I was depressed that the other woman in the article in the Times thought porn was empowering. Sometimes I despair that we really are back at Feminism 101.

There are countless women (and many men) realising the damage that porn does - especially to our children. But tackling it seems to be almost impossible.

Good but extremely depressing article.

It reminds me of this article:
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Young women report that more than half of them either find anal sex does nothing for them or is actually painful; young men report expecting to have anal sex, and expecting it to be painful for their female partners, but expecting to go ahead anyway.

Thanks Roomba. India Knight has done a good job. Like her, I feel torn between the belief that consenting adults should be free to do what they want and my worry about the effect of widespread access to violent porn. There have been a few threads here about the use of ‘rough sex gone wrong’ defences in murder trials when the forensic evidence seems totally at variance with consensual sex.

I think we do need to think more about how to challenge this.

Interesting article. I believe her. I find it frightening and sad.

I watched Europhia with Ds1 and we found it hardcore.