Pornography: Designed to dehumanize women ?

[General Lebnen]

• People who believe that porn is liberating for women (idiotic, but there are women like this) should call themselves ‘pornists’ or some other word. They are not feminists. Period. - Krista Matthews, Getting There, in Merge July 2001
• Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. - Robin Morgan, Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape, 1974, The Word of a Woman (1993)
• When pornography is… normal, a whole population of men is primed to dehumanise women and to enjoy inflicting assault sexually… Pornography is the perfect preparation - motivator and instruction manual in one - for… sexual atrocities. - Catharine MacKinnon, Ms., July/Aug 1993, p.28
• Pornography has been so thickly glossed over with the patina of chic these days in the name of verbal freedom and sophistication… Part of the problem is that those who traditionally have been the most vigorous opponents of porn are often those same people who shudder at the explicit mention of any sexual subject… There can be no equality in porn, no female equivalent, no turning of the tables in the name of bawdy fun. Pornography, like rape, is a male invention, designed to dehumanize women… Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda. - Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will (1975)
• Years ago, few women were upset about pornography. Sadistic porn was rare. Only educated men read the Marquis de Sade or “The Story of O…” Those were days of innocence… after the male “sexual revolution,” pornography changed, growing far more widespread and moving from books to film to videos… it began to portray children as well as women… In the late 1960s, pornography reached staggering depths of violence, hatred, and cruelty. Films featured lynching, mainly of Asian women; it is believed that the actresses in some “snuff” films were actually killed to make the film: mutilation and murder tilted men into orgasm. - Marilyn French, The War Against Women (1992)

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I ran across a few excerpts from different articles / books regarding the issue, what do you think ? Does porn dehumanize women ?

[Neoxter]

of course ,the last thing the directors of porn movies care about it the woman human rights and these stuff. Pleasure and money are there number one goal .

[Kingroudy]

no woman is forced to make pr0n movies. but actually they do things that are so non-human just for the money, things that i will never do to my partner ever.. u know.. the kind of disgusting stuff.

[xcoder]

Originally Posted by Kingroudy

no woman is forced to make pr0n movies. but actually they do things that are so non-human just for the money, things that i will never do to my partner ever.. u know.. the kind of disgusting stuff.

I agree but it depends on what you really mean because some people for example see that oral sex is humiliating while for much others it's not since it's done for both. But when it comes to violence and shitty treating, well that's another face of violence and of course could not be justified in anyway.

[Kingroudy]

Originally Posted by xcoder

I agree but it depends on what you really mean because some people for example see that oral sex is humiliating while for much others it's not since it's done for both. But when it comes to violence and shitty treating, well that's another face of violence and of course could not be justified in anyway.

some kinds of oral sex done by women will make you puke. anyway, i'm not a pr0n freak or something..:P

[TAREK®]

Originally Posted by Kingroudy

no woman is forced to make pr0n movies. but actually they do things that are so non-human just for the money, things that i will never do to my partner ever.. u know.. the kind of disgusting stuff.

I agree, but maybe a women makes a pr0n movie becoz her husband doesnt satisfy her enough? or becoz he sux in bed

but certainly money plays a huge role