LJ: porn, oh my!

[browneyedgirl65]

Finally, finally: a more nuanced critique of porn without descending into the BAN IT ALL mentality: Degradation of women in porn. Firstly, it points out Professor Gail Dines has led the recent charge against porn, reigniting the debate with her recent book, Pornland. Enraged by the new degradation of women in porn, she has called for the effective

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[castiron]

Porn is something I'm thinking about a lot lately now that I have a probably-neurotypical son. I know he's going to see it at some point, so I need to tell him my views on it before that point (basically, that I see nothing wrong with watching two people have sex if they've consented to being watched, but that a lot of mainstream porn is geared towards a narrow range of male fantasies, both in actions and in the kinds of female bodies, and that if he's looking for "how to have sex with a real-life woman", he'll have better luck with the romance novels on my shelves [which are still fantasy material, but in a different way].)

Of course, I've got a few years to figure out my wording :-).