Porn!

[featherynscale]

After reading some pretty intense stuff on the flist about people's pornography addictions and the other associated evils of porn today, I am left with a single stupid question that is completely out of place in the original thread:

Why doesn't anybody ever complain that porn objectifies/degrades/devalues men? (I mean, provided that there are men in the porn. Obviously, lesbian porn doesn't objectify men, but, you know.)

(Also, can you tell it's a slow day? I can.)

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is because in straight porn, at least, men are often not cast on the basis of their aesthetic appeal. E.g., Ron Jeremy.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Girls can make a career of porn. Ron Jeremy aside, the guys are all just 'whoever is standing around.' People seem to pick out the Tracy Lords or Jenna Jamesons, but how often does 'Murray Everwood' get remembered?

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I think telling women what they can or can't do with their bodies, is a lot more degrading than porn or prostitution...mind you, I'm speaking of adults who aren't retarded or somehow mentally incapacitated. I find it amusing that so many who are pro-abortion are anti-porn or anti-prostitution, and don't even see the irony.

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Well, porn is degrading to women and exploits women because women are the weaker sex and need to be sheltered and protected, and can't take any responsibility for their actions, because their choices are always made by the men around them. Porn doesn't do the same to men becuase men are naturally dominant and have stronger wills than women and have control over the women around them.

If the fucking Dworkinite twits would look at the assumptions that fuel their invective against porn, they'd see hoe circular their logic is and how all their theories created to 'free' women from male dominance are actually reinforcing feminine victim mentality.

::seethes::

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Because they're watching the wrong porn?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've heard that lesbian porn objectifies women, too. Not really sure how that works...

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Because, at least to the Dworkinites, porn is the equivalent of rape, and You Can't Rape The Willing.

unrealted

[brandy22kc.livejournal.com]

are you still going to be aviable to help me move tonight?