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

[malvito.livejournal.com]

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

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

One wonders if any of the people who go about saying "such-and-such thing is rape!" have ever actually been raped. This is a huge piss-off for me -- rape is a thing, that is a particular thing, and is not the sort of thing one ought to trivialize by saying things like "looking at naked people is rape!". Grr.