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In reply to the discussion: With all the anti-pornography talk, can we have a sex positive thread? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)A lot of people have talked about consenting adult BDSM- not my thing, but certainly the people in that scene object to the idea that they're not capable of determining on their own what they as adults can or cannot consent to.
We've had several people post studies from religious right think tanks, including one that claimed "88% of porn contains images of aggression", while defining things like blowjobs as "physically aggressive acts".
And it's not helped by the fact that anyone who questions the wisdom of outlawing fictional dramatizations, is caricatured, strawman-style, as "loving their rape porn that they're getting off on as they spread their hate on DU" in a series of increasingly incoherent, over-the-top posts.
Let me break down for you where I stand: Like you, I do not support the glorification of rape and an acceptable sexual outlet. I do not support glorifying violence against women. I find those things icky, to say the least, as well.
It's also interesting that the ONLY thing I've ever come across on the internet- of course, I don't go hunting for such things- that could be described as the "rape porn" in question, was a link to a video on facebook in a thread very similar to the ones we've seen on DU in recent days. And it was posted by someone arguing against "rape porn". The UK law being defended by some on DU, here, presumably would have made that poster the criminal.
Those threads evolved much as the ones this past week have; whereby NO ONE thought the video was great, wonderful or sexy, everyone said "ick", and yet anyone who had the opinion that, despite being upsetting and ugly, it was likely a dramatization or fiction instead of a film of an actual attack, was accused of "cheering for rape porn".
It's fucking ridiculous. As far as I've seen, no one here supports rape. No one wants to encourage rape. No one thinks "rape porn" is a great or positive genre.