Against Porn, Not Erotica
Hi All,
Long time, I know. I wanted to post some links that to me have some very important things in them. If you hadn't figured it out, I'm a feminist. And that does not mean I hate men or I'm a lesbian or any thing like that. It means I'm a woman, and I care about other women. Period.
Pornagraphy is very bad for women and for the men who indulge in it. The inhumanity of how the explicit, intentionally degrading sexual acts are conducted against the women result in desensitizing the viewer, making he or she less able to connect to their lover and to themselves. Overtime they will need to create more violence and more exploitation to receive any sexual pleasure.
Porn = female slave by definition, and that's how they pretty much represent women.
Erotica, on the other hand, is not necessarily as degrading. I value sexual liberation and the joyful confidence a woman experiences in having pride in her own sexuality. There's something that happens when a woman feels the physical reality of the love and affection she desires in a real and genuine way. It's pure elation.
There are not enough outlets for non-BSMD oriented, beautiful, innocent, romantic women to be able to talk about, watch, or read about affectionate lovemaking in this country.
The Gen Xers worked extremely hard to rid the world of as much sexual passion as possible, almost turning the act of lovemaking into a business proposition for status advancement.
There's endless outlets for perversion and kinks, sexual violence and degradation, but making love? That's very hard to find.
The anti-porn movement is against rape, anything in the rape family, or anything that degrades women sexually on and off the screen.
There is a war right now against women everywhere. There's a war on choice, on health insurance, on how over sexualized we are supposed to be to be accepted.
I don't think that seeing magazine covers with "17 ways to suck your boyfriend's dick", is really liberation for women. I think it's a new way to present us the ugliest side of human sexuality and conditioning us to believe it's the norm.
Here are some links I really think are worth looking at. There will be posts from time to time about helping women around the world. :)
community.livejournal.com/anti_porn/
community.livejournal.com/porn_rage/