The Feminist and the Pornographer
Some feminists feel porn is very bad for women….
The pro-porn rebuttal to that opinion has already been made very competently by Nina Hartley and others.
To summarize it, pornography is good because it gives outlet
to things — to fantasies it would be inconvenient for us to pursue in our real lives, and also to impulses which might, if indulged, jeopardize our standing in the community. Both factors apply to both genders.
As an ideological supporter of porn, it gave me personal pause to find myself in disagreement with intelligent women on so important a question. It also forced me to visit the commitment I have made to pornography, which would have to be nullified if I became convinced porn was actually bad for women. Suffice it to say, I don’t believe it is harmful.
This is a critical time for pornography. Significant censorship is quite possible. And I’m afraid the business-as-usual defenses of long historical success are going to cave next time they are tested.
I’m convinced that when push comes to shove, to win, to really WIN — not merely to scrape by with a technical legal victory — we have to make a case on merits, not just Free Speech… more
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January 15th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
[…] The women, seeing that the men were now struggling with ideas and no longer with each other, produced feminism, both to empower as a community and to raise the value of sexual intercourse. Which is not to say that the arguments of feminism aren’t valid, only that they arose as much from cultural opportunism as moral imperative…more […]