Let it sink.

[Ms. Toad]

64. It is not the fantasy aspect

It is the desensitization to violence and degradation of women that comes from the pervasive continuum of media images spanning from advertising to graphic pornography that all send the message that rape and violence are part of the "normal" interaction between men and women. Pornography is just the extreme end of the continuum.

FWIW, I spent about 15 years very intensively involved in not only rape crisis work, but also in community education about violence against women, including the continuum of how women are portrayed from mainstream to pornography. The images I referenced are from pornography that was part of our presentation - and each had a mainstream counterpart that gave the same message and was strikingly similar when portrayed side by side.