The No-Porn Pledge

[fierceawakening]

I wish I could say I'm surprised this exists, but I'm not.

It's a site on which people can pledge not to use pornography, and not only that, to refuse to have an intimate relationship with anyone who does.

Which, yeah, hardly news, some conservatives do that sort of thing all the time, right? Except that this appears to be linked to anti-porn

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Re: nice try

[fierceawakening]

Sure, pornography feeds sexual lust. But I don't think that feeding sexual lust is in any way bad or wrong, so I don't agree with those scriptures. The issue I am taking with feminists linking to those scriptures, then, is this:

As I understand it, standard feminist objections to the content of porn (production is another matter) are that it depicts the dehumanization or objectification of women. This isn't a criticism of the fact that the images cause lust, but rather a criticism of the way in which they use the powerful emotional impact of lust to, so the theory goes, train men to think of women more and more often in those objectified terms.

So saying that a scripture that warns people against immoderate lust is actually something one would expect anti-porn feminists to be on board with or endorse merely because they dislike pornography, a specific and modern form of media, doesn't work for me.

Do you represent Through The Flame, or are you affiliated with OAG? If the latter, I apologize for any misrepresentation, but I still don't think that any feminisms are supposed to be about condemning lustful feelings full stop.

Re: nice try

[fierceawakening]

(Now, I will admit that I do think some feminists, i.e., some individuals, fall down a slippery slope and end up de facto condemning all lust. This propensity is one of many reasons I look askance at anti-porn feminism in the first place.)