AIBU to not understand what 'pornified culture' is and to ask where it comes from?

[justwondering72]

Since joining MN I've seen references to 'our pornified culture' made on numerous threads - from personal grooming to teenage use of mobile phones to feminism etc. I don't live in the UK just now, haven't done for about 10 years, and I am kind of mystified as to what it means and where it comes from, and why it seems to be such a big influence on life in the UK? Is everyone in the UK watching porn all the time? Is it really part of mainstream life and culture now?

To me, it's a growing acceptance of the porn like images (as opposed to sitting down and watching Debbie does Dallas) that are so all pervasive that they kind of lead to the normalisation of showing women through a 'pornified' lens. Miley Cyrus' music video, what's his name Thicke's new music video. Media advertising for anything from cars to cameras to clothing showing scantily clad women supposedly 'gagging' for it. If you object to it, you're uptight, you're overreacting, you're whatever. A rabid lesbo feminist.

There's a lot more to it, but that's my immediate thought process.

That's it in a nutshell above - just look at the fact that every reality star seems to do any normal article with a shoot in their underwear. Why are they in their underwear in a Norma shoot?

I thought it had reached a new low when someone was discussing plans for photographs at her wedding, and referred to a picture important to her as the money shot.

Yuk. It really is pervasive.