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In reply to the discussion: Liberals and violent porn and rape simulation [View all]BainsBane
(57,803 posts)It isn't about private sex lives. We aren't talking about what a couple consents to do.
Porn is not sex. Porn is a capitalist commercial enterprise that profits from depicting, enacting, or actually carrying out brutality against other human beings . A user of rape porn doesn't seek or receive the consent of the woman who is the object of the pornography.
Extreme rape porn is based on sexual abuse, whether depicted or real. Much of rape porn is marketed as being real rape. Why? Because it's viewers want to believe they are witnessing actual violence and harm done to other human beings, women in the overwhelming majority of cases. There is nothing close to gender equity.
Fact: If someone has consumed significant amounts of porn, he has seen enslaved women (girls or boys) raped, even if that porn isn't rape porn. An enslaved person cannot consent to sex because she is held in that condition against her will. She performs on screen because she will be killed if she does not. More people are enslaved today than at any point in human history, and Pornography and the sex industry more general is major user of slave labor. People don't know where there porn comes from, and conversations this week have made clear they do not care. They will assume it's all consensual without any evidence that is the case. The fate of the women making the porn or the women who are then raped in society because of the influence of rape porn means nothing to them.
This notion of liberty based on prurient interest of consumers of pornography is predicated on denying the objects of that pornography any consideration as human beings, as workers with rights, as women who may or may not have consented to participate in those productions. I find it the refusal of many to consider anything but their own sexual appetites astounding. These commerce involves real human beings who consumers of violent porn
Rape porn is part of rape culture. Watching that porn, studies show, then increases the viewer's propensity toward committing actual rape himself. To consume and justify rape porn it is to actively contribute to rape culture and thus the prevalence of rape in society. It also shows that far too many are comfortable denying the working conditions and indeed the very humanity of the women who are the objects of that porn in lieu of of their own sexual desires--something that clearly matters more to them than women's lives.