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In reply to the discussion: Liberals and violent porn and rape simulation [View all]Tumbulu
(6,630 posts)can defend hurting people for please or profit.
Your arguments, that it is all fun and games and all consenting is pretty fantastical.
The only porn I ever saw was while in West Africa at a resort thing the Swedes ran in the late 70's. For some reason we had to stay there overnight, it was a totally bizarre place.
It was pretty tame stuff compared to what I read about. But the men who watched it turned around and brutalized the women as a result. I heard so many African women beg us (the white women) to get them to stop showing this horrible stuff (as if we had any power over this!) as it was making their life worse, and they already had been been castrated by the female mutilation, so no orgasms in this lifetime for them.
The silly notion that these things some people do for pleasure only effects them is beyond cold hearted, and smacks of a provincial life. Depictions of all violence on films shown in public or private effect people. There are regulations about this for a reason. This sort of porn is already illegal, why would any liberal be supporting and defending it?
We are an imitative species.
I do remember the acts shown as really dangerous, all this action that would lead to painful infections in any normal woman. Perhaps these actors and actresses get immediate medical attention, but normal women who have to wait a long time to go to the doctor and pay lots of money in copays should not be encouraged to do any of these things and it seems to me that porn glorified infection causing activities.
And even that stuff I saw in the late 70's was demeaning and violent, slapping and spanking....I was just horrified and still am, really what in the hell is this really about? And that was tame Swedish soft porn. God knows what has been normalized since.
It is clearly all about normalizing and fetishizing violence against women.
I do not find this to be an acceptable liberal position.