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The problem with porn

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Checkoutmygravelpit · 31/08/2025 14:31

Please help! I'm a long-time lurker but first-time poster. I am trying to find a documentary to demonstrate to my partner the issues surrounding the porn industry.

My understanding of the issues are:

  • negative treatment of women/performers in the industry
  • increase in expectations of coercive/violent/extreme sexual acts from the men (and women??) who consume porn
  • decreasing pleasure from 'real-life' sex and increase in erectile dysfunction amongst men who consume porn

I think DP has a notion that it's not a pleasant industry but I would like to show him something from an authoritative source which will enable him to see for himself and really believe it, rather than me 'lecturing' him. Ideally it would be measured and concise but cover all my points above.

If no such documentary exists, perhaps a podcast or online article(s) might?

N.B. I am aware that this is a nuanced issue but I am not here to debate inherent rights and wrongs of porn, I just want something that summarises all the things I have read and seen over the years about porn in an accessible way.

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NPET · 31/08/2025 19:13

Sorry - not able to come up with any documention - just personally would finish your title by saying
" ...is that it exploits women, and leads men to search for a woman in real life who resembles a plastic one in a porn film".

bluehex · 31/08/2025 22:42

If women were the dominant sex I think men would be exploited just as women are now. I don't think porn is about sex, but about power. Like rape and rape used in wartime.

Christinapple · 03/09/2025 23:47

bluehex · 31/08/2025 22:42

If women were the dominant sex I think men would be exploited just as women are now. I don't think porn is about sex, but about power. Like rape and rape used in wartime.

I have news for you. There's a genre of porn called "femdom" (female domination) where the power is all on the woman.

TheProfoundlyPeculiarPointOfPete · 03/09/2025 23:48

Christinapple · 03/09/2025 23:47

I have news for you. There's a genre of porn called "femdom" (female domination) where the power is all on the woman.

Woman being 'a male or female person', yes? How is that news?

Iamthemoom · 04/09/2025 14:26

Read TAKE DOWN by Laila Micklewait. In fact just watching this short trailer for her book should be enough to put anyone off porn. Despite their claims that all their content is consenting, Porn Hub have had to remove over 80% of their content as they could neither prove age nor consent. That should be all he needs to know.

Also read the articles linked on this page:
https://justicedefensefund.org

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