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Common misconceptions : Comments

By Antonella Gambotto-Burke, published 1/4/2008

Book Review: The P*rn Report, by Alan Mckee, Katherine Albury and Catharine Lumby, fails to debunk current misconceptions about p***ography.

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Great article, I have often wondered why we havn't gotten rid of porn and violence on television before, its immoral and devalues our society. Reducing women and children to sexual objects for the pleasure of men shouild be punished by the death penalty, because this scum does not deserve to live with the rest of us.
Posted by Yindin, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:00:00 AM
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Oh Dear!

It seems it has become rather fashionable to attack porn. Maybe Dorwkin has been reincarnated.

<There is no discussion of the 13 million human beings currently trafficked for sexual purposes (prostitution, pornography) around the world.>

Where Are All The Sex Slaves?
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/4389/

... In late 2005, police in Birmingham carried out a media splash of a raid against a brothel and claimed to have ‘rescued’ 19 women who had been trafficked to the UK and enslaved as prostitutes (8). A few days later, 13 of the women were released when it turned out that they were ‘voluntarily working in the sex industry’; the remaining six, who also denied having been trafficked, were imprisoned at Yarlswood detention centre in Bedfordshire and threatened with deportation back to their countries of origin.

So I wonder why this sudden increase in interest in banning porn?

"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."
Catherine MacKinnon

"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies."
Andrea Dworkin

"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."
Catharine MacKinnon,

Daphne Patai in Heterophobia wrote that feminists want to micro manage our lives.
Posted by JamesH, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:06:15 AM
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What is the point of the constant stream of these "p0rnz0r iz bad 4 j00" articles? This was better than some of the others, and actually referred to some data. It's a pity, however, that it was too busy insulting the research rather than actually addressing it.
Posted by Chade, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 1:29:19 PM
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This article should be titled 'common denials' rather than common misconceptions especially when it comes to the porn industry. Most of the denials come from the general public who want to indulge in their own little bit of perversion despite the very obvious outcomes for society. The promotion of men and women as purely sex objects has no doubt led to rape, child abuse and every other perversion these money makers (mainly men) could dream up. It is laughable how any decent women could be so deceived to see that they have been duped by the pathetic secular thinking of so many. No wonder few can hold a marriage together. I do take some heart that many of the young people today seem to have more morals than those of the 60s, 70. and 80s. Many of these people from past eras have stuffed up their own marriages are intent in covering their own guilt by promoting this filth as normal to their own kids. Wake up Australia.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 1:51:54 PM
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Dear James H:
"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."
Catharine MacKinnon,
would you be able to supply a source where MacKinnon says this please?
No? Didnt think so.
Helen
Posted by isabelberners, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 1:53:08 PM
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Well said, Runner. None of those atrocities existed before porn, and getting rid of porn will make them all go away.
Posted by Sancho, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 2:14:16 PM
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