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In reply to the discussion: Iceland campaigns to restrict internet porn [View all]nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)is pretty far off the deep end. But how many people (DUers included) actually subscribe to the most extreme, literal version of it? I've even read quotes from MacKinnon herself claiming that she never meant to the reduce the issue to "sex=rape," and that she believes healthy male-female sexual relationships are at least possible. Now whether that's what she actually meant at the time, or it's revisionism, I can't say. But it does, at the least, indicate a desire to distance herself from her most extreme statements.
In the end I can only speak for myself, and the only thing here that worries me is the conflation of sex and violence, which to be fair is found in more than just visual pornography. Like I said, I'm not squeamish - I'll admit to a taste for the "extreme" in literature/film/music - but real violence, real abuse, just appalls me, and makes me wonder how those who witness it will influenced.