Posted by:
Richard Foxe
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Date: November 27, 2014 10:27PM
try Gail Dines' "Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality":
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gail-dines/adventures-in-pornland_b_636381.htmlThe Media Education Foundation has recently advertised an hour-long documentary by Dines about this (previewing available), which is where I learned about it. Sure enough--from what the women on cams say, from what the men say to their 'partners,' from the invasive, manipulative, and dominating scenarios...it's inescapable: women in porn are treated subhumanly. And conversely, porn portrays male fantasies as naturally, and normally, callous, exploitative, and disrespectfully self-centered. Porn caters to and expounds the male id...and what sane person really wants that to rule the world?
It's easy to say, well, there are other more egalitarian versions of porn online, but things have become commodified so quickly that it's scary to see the youngest women adopting this "male line," like that's going to get them attention and popularity. Even the women have been pressed into thinking that's what men want.