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In reply to the discussion: Does Porn Degrade Women? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)See, I don't actually give a shit what people watch, as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult.
But clearly, some people do. And not only is it vitally important that they exercise their wagging finger muscles on the matter, here, it's also important that no one question the assertions, because apparently "porn is degrading and awful" is such an unchallengeable axiomatic self-evident truth that it's the one part of the Republican Platform we're supposed to nod in solemn agreement with.
You want "healthy"? People who want to find ways to validate their subjective opinion that "porn is unhealthy" can probably find a way to argue that, just like the people who want to say that marijuana leads to heroin addiction can yank out some anecdotal stories or phrase a survey in such a way to make it sound legit.
Lets leave aside the fact- and it is a fact- that all of the hyperbolic bullshit warnings (think reefer madness) that have been thrown out over the years, by the Dworkins and MacKinnons and those who follow in their footsteps, have most decidedly not come to pass... in addition to that, in the decades since internet porn has become widely available, what has happened in society? Well, for one, attitudes on things like LGBT equality have undergone a sea change- for the better.
Maybe they're unrelated. Or maybe a society, just maybe, that isn't as repressed about consenting adult sexuality, isn't as repressed about consenting adult sexuality.