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In reply to the discussion: All men watch porn, scientists find [View all]Courtesy Flush
(4,558 posts)If a liberated woman chooses to be nude for cameras, or in public (and I have several friends who do) they are expressing themselves freely, but if anyone sees them, they don't respect women?
I really do get what you're saying. There are women who are exploited by pornography. But there are also women who model in the nude, and feel like this is their form of artistic expression. Meanwhile, their pictures are considered to be porn by many.
Pictures that actually are porn sometimes look very much like my friends' nude photos.
Every week I go to a live figure drawing session with a nude model (sometimes male, sometimes female). There are people who would call this pornography (and they do).
It's not as black and white as you want it to be.
Also, your post assumed that only women are objects of porn. Can't young men be exploited?