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Pornography: Who’s sleeping with whom? : Comments
By Helen Pringle, published 8/9/2011Locating the political, civic and equity impact of recent pornography debate.
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I would be happy if the author used the term 'Some Pornography', or even 'degrading and Violent Pornography'. Even 'Most pornography', though I would not agree with that. But it is plainly ridiculous to put all porn into the same basket.
This is the trouble with these debates. There is as many different genres of porn as there is genres of literature.
'those of us who are not directly involved in its production are made responsible for it, because our reality as ‘respectable’ and respected women is built on their ‘fake’ bodies.'
If this is true, then it is true of romance models, which cater to predominately female view of relationships and men. Men are no more obliged to replicate Mr Darcy than women are Jenna Jameson. Sex and the City, Home and Away etc. Most work on the premise of women manipulating men and each other for the prize bad boy in order to tame him.
'I do believe that filming sex acts where ANYONE, male, female, Straight or Gay, is demeaned is a retrograde mark on our society.'
Do you believe violent crime as depicted in movies is a retrograde mark on our society?
There are sites on the interwebs that feature men suffering all sorts of painful abuse to their genitals, being verbally humiliated, 'cuckolded', you name it. It is fantasy. As, if you have perused Nancy Friday's work, rape is a fantasy with a significant number of women. Sexual fantasy is complex.
I am interested if the author would have the same objections to porn if it was computer generated, or if the same subject matter appeared in text rather than video.
All in all I think it's intellectually lazy to lump all porn in together and to not even discuss the medium and why sex fantasy in film is more harmful than other fantasy or sex fantasy in other mediums.