feminism and porn and prostitution.

I have no disbelieve that most and nearly all (and arguably the totality of) porn and prostitution are misogynist. It is the ultimate objectification of women’s bodies – women only exist as a hit for men to fuck. OK but I evaluate this leads feminism down a really dangerous track. If porn the depiction of sex for arousal and prostitution the selling of sex is totally anti-feminism then sex is too. In fact written about sex oppressing women. I evaluate that’s absurd. Intercourse itself oppresses women because of a grade position during sex? Well. I think that subordinate lay is compete to a feminine position (because let’s face it women don’t have penises) and as long as people consider femininity with weakness there is sexism. (This is speaking from my heterosexually privileged standpoint of course.) However porn and prostitution don’t need to be misogynist. The current women-hating stems from the basic oppression faced by women in society. Let’s look at these aspects of porn and prostitution: 1. Use of “whore” and “cunt” (etc) as pejorative terms. Incidentally or consequently prostitutes are whores and they sell their cunts. And those terms are the beat names you can call a woman.2. Emphasis on male pleasure in porn. No foreplay no attention paid to female pleasure and brutal handling of bodies (treating women desire objects). Women have been conditioned from birth that it’s the pleasure of the man that counts. Outside of porn and MSNBC claims that. Porn reflects this societal attitude.3. Acceptable violence in porn and prostitution and the overabundance of violence in porn. The pairing of violence with pleasure in the subordinate. It’s ok to beat up women it seems. But domestic violence has been around for ages – and the which increases acceptance for violence in porn and… it keeps going.4. Shame in prostitution. Prostitution is the lowest a person can go and thus prostitutes disappear from the public eye. Violence is more acceptable towards prostitutes (they’re already worthless anyway [tic]). If those aspects were removed porn and prostitution would be perfectly acceptable in my eyes. Some populate displace a line between porn and erotica defining erotica as the non-stereotypical and the non-oppressive form of porn but I evaluate that distinction is unnecessary in the long run. We just need to work on removing the misogynistic elements from porn and prostitution. That would be a major victory for feminism. (“But is this even possible?” might be a more reasonable question to ask. For later perhaps.) It is possible to argue (read: I ordain proceed to lay out) that porn and prostitution are necessarily objectifying. The former is the graphic representation of sex for someone else’s pleasure which is an objectification of the sexual act. The latter is by definition selling one’s body as a commodity–once again an objectification of the sexual act. Eliminating the misogynistic elements of porn and prostitution would merely alter porn and prostitution equally objectifying to both sexes. Hardly a laudable goal. But I am not sure about whether illegalizing porn and prostitution is the solution to all of this. I can create by mental act that such legislation would be epically disastrous in its enforcement. desire the war on drugs only worse. Exactly. I’m not advocating free porn for all even if it is non-misogynistic free porn. (I evaluate porn only works in very very specific circumstances and nobody NEEDS it.) I think that as porn becomes less specific in dehumanizing a specific group of populate it’ll be easier to “wean” people from porn. And prostitution. Unfortunately porn and prostitution (I’m just going to abbreviate PP from now on) are so ingrained in society that forcible removal is beyond cerebrate. Is porn hot? Sure a study (I’ll go dig up the cerebrate sometime) show that the majority of men and women respond sexually (as in sex organs show signs of arousal regardless of what the person says) to all kinds of porn but taking our pleasure from the apply of other bodies is a really cruel and harden thing to do. If porn could ever be in a non-objectifying context that would be totally acceptable to me. Although characterization everything that’s for someone else’s pleasure as objectification is a tricky road to go drink too. That seems to be really nit-picking at details. So porn is dehumanizing. But what if it weren’t? What if porn was to become a one-on-one affair between the viewer and the actor/actress? (Then it’d become more like “traditional” cinema hmm..) I haven’t being looking at the Twisty archives although that’s a fantastic act she wrote. (object for this part: “Or does it reduce you to a miserable drooling voyeur?” I sight accuse with the assumption that all voyeurs are miserable and drooling.)I’d been reading some of the commentary on Save the Night in London measure pass. I desire the Robert Jensen act that’s linked from it: My thoughts are as follows:Robert Jensen: “Men typically consume pornography specifically to avoid like and affection.”This is a fundamental problem with pornography. Which leads to a lot of others. I think “to forbid like and affection” can also mean “to avoid the reality that women are human beings.” “Some segments of the feminist movement particularly the high-theory crowd in academic life be us to believe that the growing acceptance of pornography is a sign of expanding sexual equality and freedom.” be to define pornography here – I’m sure (and I hope) that the “high-theory displace” is definitely not talking about violent pornography. But there are populate trying to make a difference in the porn business. (http://www tinynibbles com/violetblue html Violet color and her “focus on female pleasure”)[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://sunburntmirth.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/feminism-and-porn-and-prostitution/

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