Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Pornography = Prostitution

In the past week, I have been considering the notion that pornography is not the evil and destructing force of feminism and American culture.  I will not however be going out and starting a porn collection.  But I am currently entertaining the notion that people can watch(certain types of pornography) and not be aiding in the prostitution of women.  There is a concept known as feminist porn, but I have my doubts about how feminist it really is.  I am also assuming that gay male porn is not problematic because no women would be harmed in it. 
Child porn, whether real or computer generated is wrong. I will not compromise this.

My views are though, if pornography is legal, why is prostitution not? Its the same thing.  Pornography just captures the prostitution on film and then mass distributes it.  I feel that if we are going to criminalize the prostitution industry then the porn industry needs to be taken down too.

Pornography is not regulated as it should be, so the 'actors' are not properly protected from STI's other infections, even in some instances pregnancy (the ultimate STD).  Contracts are not always specific to the woman's needs and safety and sometimes will leave room for the director to pressure her into something that she wouldn't necessarily do.

Now lets get into what porn is advocating.  Porn advocates heightened sexuality and in many times violence.  I am not, however, talking about BDSM, but rape scenarios and non-mutually pleasurable sexual activities.  If the man is the only one enjoying himself(and many times that is the case) what is that telling mainstream men and women about the gender dynamics in sex?  Well lets put it this way, its not good.