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@Akikako I don't deny that there are serious problems with the porn industry, which is why i say that more regulation is needed.
But to assume that pornography is a web of entrapment made to exploit and abuse women who don't know what they are getting into is ignorant, to assume that everyone in the porn industry is psychologically damaged and that's the only reason why they would do porn at all, with women specially being incapable of enjoying the production of pornography or erotica, and their overall experience being one of sickness and suffering is a generalization born from prejudice.
And no porn, is not the cause of unequal genre dynamics, before pornography was a thing women were already in a vulnerable positions, what is known as the problems of the patriarchy don't appear with the birth of porn and are not limited to that realm at all, economic, social, political, and ideological inequalities regarding gender existed and exist beyond porn and before porn was a thing.
And while is true that some porn is a bad representation of how sexual relationships work, i could even say most porn is, because it sells a fantasy that creates unfair expectations, some porn normalizes violence, and some porn perpetuates the image of women as subservient, but that's not porn's fault, it is the fault of society for not educating people and making sexuality a taboo, making it so people learn about sex watching unrealistic fantasies on a screen, expectations made from fantasies that don't even come from porn, because those negatives aspects can also be seen in most forms of media, even non sexual media, like video games, comics, manga, anime, movies, theater, and literature, if anything porn is a media format in which women get to more often escape the role of servitude to the male desire and own their sexuality.
Miyazaki once said that anime was a mistake, because modern animators develop their characters not based on real people and experience, but on anime tropes and caricatures, ending in a perpetual cycle of art imitating art, pornography has this problem too, but that's not a problem of porn is a problem of a capitalist system and consumerism.
There's porn that shows different more positives aspect of sexuality, there are pornography made by women and for women and that everyone can enjoy, porn that shows diversity and challenges stereotypes depicted for gender roles, desires, and expectations, there are even feminist porn awards, the idea that everyone gets there because they got tricked, deceived, and cohered into becoming an object of desire for someone else, assumes that all women and men are just pawns without a will and desires of their own working not for themselves but to satisfy others, and that women specifically are unable to enjoy sexual acts if is not for the imposition of male desire being put on them.
That's just assuming that women either lack sexuality, are unable to enjoy sex, and the only way they would engage on it is for the sake reproduction, to pleasure someone other than themselves, or by being forced or tricked, and that is nonsense, that's the mentality of the times of Freud in which women's sexuality existed only as an inferior mirror to the phallus of a father figure, that's an outdated and prejudiced mentality, that ignores that women are people too and that they have their own desires.
So again, pornography is not the problem, the problem is a society with the lack of law and regulations and the will to address and fix the problems of pornography, and that ignores the ones that are already working and trying to fix it.
But to assume that pornography is a web of entrapment made to exploit and abuse women who don't know what they are getting into is ignorant, to assume that everyone in the porn industry is psychologically damaged and that's the only reason why they would do porn at all, with women specially being incapable of enjoying the production of pornography or erotica, and their overall experience being one of sickness and suffering is a generalization born from prejudice.
And no porn, is not the cause of unequal genre dynamics, before pornography was a thing women were already in a vulnerable positions, what is known as the problems of the patriarchy don't appear with the birth of porn and are not limited to that realm at all, economic, social, political, and ideological inequalities regarding gender existed and exist beyond porn and before porn was a thing.
And while is true that some porn is a bad representation of how sexual relationships work, i could even say most porn is, because it sells a fantasy that creates unfair expectations, some porn normalizes violence, and some porn perpetuates the image of women as subservient, but that's not porn's fault, it is the fault of society for not educating people and making sexuality a taboo, making it so people learn about sex watching unrealistic fantasies on a screen, expectations made from fantasies that don't even come from porn, because those negatives aspects can also be seen in most forms of media, even non sexual media, like video games, comics, manga, anime, movies, theater, and literature, if anything porn is a media format in which women get to more often escape the role of servitude to the male desire and own their sexuality.
Miyazaki once said that anime was a mistake, because modern animators develop their characters not based on real people and experience, but on anime tropes and caricatures, ending in a perpetual cycle of art imitating art, pornography has this problem too, but that's not a problem of porn is a problem of a capitalist system and consumerism.
There's porn that shows different more positives aspect of sexuality, there are pornography made by women and for women and that everyone can enjoy, porn that shows diversity and challenges stereotypes depicted for gender roles, desires, and expectations, there are even feminist porn awards, the idea that everyone gets there because they got tricked, deceived, and cohered into becoming an object of desire for someone else, assumes that all women and men are just pawns without a will and desires of their own working not for themselves but to satisfy others, and that women specifically are unable to enjoy sexual acts if is not for the imposition of male desire being put on them.
That's just assuming that women either lack sexuality, are unable to enjoy sex, and the only way they would engage on it is for the sake reproduction, to pleasure someone other than themselves, or by being forced or tricked, and that is nonsense, that's the mentality of the times of Freud in which women's sexuality existed only as an inferior mirror to the phallus of a father figure, that's an outdated and prejudiced mentality, that ignores that women are people too and that they have their own desires.
So again, pornography is not the problem, the problem is a society with the lack of law and regulations and the will to address and fix the problems of pornography, and that ignores the ones that are already working and trying to fix it.
