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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2008-04-09

[Emphasis in bold added; emphasis in underline present as italics in original.]

"Roommate and I have a theory that if we could change our porn, we could change the way gender works in this country. And it's not to censure porn. That's not what it's about, it's not about abol[i]shing kink, but it is putting it in 'kink' as opposed to 'normal heterosexual sex'. There is a difference between being a little kinky in the bedroom, and believing that being dominated is the role of a woman in normal heterosexual sex.

"But to go from 'Our current porn isn't the healthiest' to 'All porn is inherently evil' is just...no. It's like looking at McDonalds and taking that as an example as to why we shouldn't eat. It's something delicious, sure, but it's not something that should be accepted as normal food, unless you wanna get diabetes."

-- [info] black_regalia, 2008-03-25

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posted by [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com at 11:55am on 2008-04-09
For a moment, I thought the suggestion was to classify all porn as "kink", but unfortunately, it wasn't quite that sweeping.
 
posted by [identity profile] kolraashgadol.livejournal.com at 04:23pm on 2008-04-09
Well, excepting that most porn now *is* kink. For example, th weird things that porn has done to avoid fines - like er, finishing in a woman's face instead of inside has to do less with contempt for women than with fines for prostitution. However, in effect it's made that act seem "normal" when it's actually pretty damned contemptuous. And that's not even addressing the normalization of things like: anal sex, S & M, B&D, multiple partners (particularly 1 guy more than one woman) etc.
IMO porn in its nature - the commodification of sex- is perhaps by definition more kinky than most of the acts it portrays.

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