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Originally posted by dhamsaic
Heh.
No, I'm not anti-porn. And I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing fuckfaces saying it's degrading to women - it's degrading to men!
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*Cheap* erotica--what we usually call "pornography" is degrading to all involved, like any shoddy art. But there is *good* erotica too.
A quote from my Cookie Jar
"Feminists against pornography (as distinct from the other anti-pornography camps) hold that our entire culture is pornographic. In a pornographic world, all our sexual constructions are obscene; sexual materials are necessarily oppressive, limited by the constraints of the culture. Even the act of viewing becomes a male actan act of subordinating the person viewed. Under this construct, I'm a damaged woman, a heretic.
"Always, the censors are concerned with how men act, and how women are portrayed. Women cannot make free sexual choices in that world; they are too oppressed to know that only oppression would lead them to sell sex. And I, watching, am either too oppressed to know the harm that my watching has done to my sisters, oror else I have become the Man. And it is the Man in me who watches and is aroused. (Shame.) What a mysogynistic worldview this is, this claim that women who make such choices cannot be making free choices at allare not free to make a choice. Feminists against pornography have done a sad and awful thing: They have made women into objects" --Sallie Tisdale in Harper's Magazine: <i>Talk Dirty to Me: A woman's taste for pornography</i>