Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The conflation of porn and prostitution with sex is an issue that needs to be addressed. One of the main problems with porn and prostitution is that they take sex out of the context of human relationships. It sells a version of human sexuality which is assembly line- put together submissive Asians and anal and you get submissive anal asians #49494. So from popular culture, people are getting either the pornified version of sex(all women like facials, women love ass sex, pounding away without foreplay makes women hot) or the whole sex is an act of true looove and fulfillment- but real sex- where different people have different likes and dislikes, where women have a point of view(i.e. subjects, not objects) is not really represented. So when people have the knee jerk reaction that any person who raises an objection to porn for any reason doesn't like sex that further marginalizes real sex. Just because I say porn is racist or that some porn is filmed in bad working conditions or the reduction of women in porn to holes might be degrading to women doesn't mean I hate sex. I just don't like porn.

Also about prostitution, the women have their own likes and dislikes, but they are paid to shut up about them. Even if you like giving blowjobs to strange men(although I personally don't think that the number of prostitutes and the number of women who love giving blowjobs to strangers are exactly matching up there- I think there are more prostitutes than women who like sleeping with strangers), sometimes you just don't feel like giving a blowjob to that jerk. Can we really say with confidence that most prostitutes give up the money they need to survive because they aren't feeling that particular sex act that day? Is that really promoting an healthy idea of sexuality that women have sex just because they have to to survive instead of for fun?

Next- why just because one women loves it doesn't make it ok.

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