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In reply to the discussion: Porn is mostly Base and Unlikable Stuff [View all]Johnny2X2X
(24,299 posts)I'm surprised you aren;t posting on Free Republic That is a site where you can make broad generalizations about any subject and then use one example to try to show that your generalization is true. Here on DU I tend to see most posters who look at things a little more critically.
Are there creeps out there making porn? Absolutely. But this discussion is not about the special cases, it's about porn in general, even what you might consider extreme porn. The fact is that like any other market driven industry, pronography is a slave to the consumer. They are supplying what sells and what sells is what people want to see and fantasize about. If what they were making wasn't selling they would go out of business. In fact there are porbably porn companies that go out of business all the time because they don't create a product that enough consumers cares to view.
Now it is a good discussion as to who pornography is made for and you'll get little argument from me that most of it is made for men, but I think many people and a lot of women misunderstand nwhat is beiing depicted on the screen as degrading when the purpose was not necessarily degradation, but depiction of insatiability and other aspects of womens' sexuality.