reasons porn may suck

[keryx]

Naomi Wolf thinks it demystifies sex and makes real people confusing.

Feministe expands on Wolf's examination of college boys and the collegiate environment.

And I think it all too often furthers the message that there's some way you personally aren't hot enough. Or, for that matter, that you need to be hot. Cause we needed to hear that one again.

[Note that by "pornography" I mean any sold representation of sex, including advertising.]

Comments

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I don't say "don't give your money to Healthy sellers". I say THINK about the selling of healthy before you sign the check. And I think that VERY VERY VERY much applies to porn.

The problem is - porn is EVERYWHERE (again, using my definition that selling sex and using sex to sell are both pornographic). So it's very hard to not contribute to it in some way. Bought a Bust magazine? I've contributed to porn? Bought a car? More porn, in all likelihood. In some ways, actual porn is the least insidious aspect of our pornographic culture, because it's at least direct.

And of course, we're getting to the point where the healthy stick is everywhere, too. Like, ideally I wouldn't shop at a store that carried Atkins-branded foods. But they're at the local independent organic foods store now, too. Eating organic is becoming another way to be beaten with el sticko del healthy.

So I'm saying I feel your frustration.

Also, I'm a firm believer in the subjunctive for argument's sake. There are always cases where what I say isn't true, even if it's true 9 times of 10.

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

I am sorry I put words in your mouth! :o

I've just been thinking lately about how your campaign against the Healthy Stick and my campaign against the Sexy Stick are analagous, and when I don't understand your statements I try to think of them in terms of my own. And I guess I was sort of asking you to do the same for me. :) Which you already did so there is no point to what I am saying! :)