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Feminism, Pornography, and a Culture of Hedonism - A short article for discussion (dartreview.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Wren@lemmy.today to c/womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone
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I'm presenting this article for discussion, not because I agree with anything written in it. This is from an independent college newspaper and most likely written by a student.

Key points include:

...pornography does more than merely degrade women; it degrades sex and all human participants. The feminist perspective only seems to denounce degradation if it happens to show women as inferior within a hierarchy.

Determining when women are explicitly depicted as sex objects (in pornography) for the enjoyment of men would be impossible on a widespread scale.

It is impossible to depict women as anything more than sex objects in any form of pornography.

They (feminists) must admit that hedonistic depictions of human beings can have negative effects. The feminist who admits this puts himself/herself into a daunting political position that must simultaneously defend hedonism and seek to address its clear negative effects.

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[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Thought I’d have some thoughts on this. The author reminds me of my mother, who was very anti porn to the point she almost kicked me out of the house when she found it on my computer in my early 20s.

If the feminist wants to see results toward a more just and equal society, he/she must admit that any and all depictions of women engaged in pornography are harmful to society. They must admit that hedonistic depictions of human beings can have negative effects.

I do not disagree that there are aspects of porn that are harmful to society, but humans are still animals and most of us like to fuck. That’s just human nature. Many also like to watch people fuck, also human nature. I also do not like his opinion on women being depicted as submissive being only negative. Some of us ladies enjoy being submissive and find respectful men or women or nonbinary partners to assist with this. Not all submission or hedonism is bad. Some of us like kinky shit and that’s ok!

This dude needs to broaden his horizons and watch different types of porn because it doesn’t seem like he’s watched much.

Appreciate you sharing this Wren!

Edit: corrected some pronouns because the author is male and I have issues with his article

[-] Wren@lemmy.today 6 points 19 hours ago

No problem. Just found it on my daily news hunt.

I would like to find her entire speach because I have no doubt the writer takes it out of context, since he built an entire opinion piece off a few sentences. He goes from her statement that "porn can be degrading to women" to "Feminists don't know what they want" in one page of false statements and strawman arguments, each one building off the last.

It seems like the writer himself has a much bigger issue with porn that the speaker.

[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 6 points 18 hours ago

Agreed. It feels like he wanted to whine more about feminism than porn imo

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