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Nina Hartley vs Chyng SunOne is from anti-porn feminist Professor Chyng Sun who wrote Revisiting the Obscenity Debate. I found this paragraph interesting: "Pornography has been primarily made by men and used by men. Men watch these videos for their own sexual stimulation. Men also told me that they tried acts they learned from pornography with or on their sexual partners. However, as pornography becomes increasingly mainstream, it is not surprising that women's use of pornography is rising. Pornographers are eager to explore the female market, with some claiming to make women-centered pornography. However, looking at the repetitive content, whether male-centered or female-centered, the essential message is the same: All women want sex all the time, in whatever fashion men want them." I'm wondering exactly which "woman-centered pornography" this person has been looking at. If she means the standard "couples" porn movies out there, I could understand her confusion. A lot of them rely on the tired male-centric traditions that I'm so eager to get away from. But I very much doubt whether the porn that I present on my sites is about "all women wanting sex all the time" nor is it about doing it according to what men want. If Prof Sun gave this area a little more thought, she might stop painting porn as if it were one monolithic evil edifice and see that there are people out there trying to make it better. I appreciate her point that sites like Bangbus are degrading to women, and it is a legitimate concern that these sorts of porn present a very negative view of sex and of women. Yes, we should be worried if boys are seeing dodgy porn and assuming that that is how sex really is. But there's no reason to take the giant leap from concern over the sexist aspects of some porn to dismissing the whole lot as misogynist and evil. In any case, Nina Hartley has said it all so much better than I can. Her reply: Feminists for Porn makes some great arguments as to why anti-porn feminism is full of "gender bias, anti-male hostility, neo-Victorian erotophobia and unacknowledged class prejudice". Great reading. Posted: Wednesday 2nd February 2005, 8:59 PM Back to the Blog
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