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In reply to the discussion: With all the anti-pornography talk, can we have a sex positive thread? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)The present state of gender politics and relations in Western society, and the production and marketing of mainstream pornography as something targeted at heterosexual male sexuality, and presented through the lens of the male gaze, makes it, by definition, exploitative. I haven't said whether or not women in mainstream pornography should "feel" exploited; I'm saying they ARE exploited. It has nothing to do with "enjoyment". And this has much more to do with the corrosive effect of pornography on views of sexuality and women more generally.
Again, can you tell me that men are generally viewed as sexual objects, or has having value only in relation to their sexual attractiveness and desirability? By and large, the answer to that is no, they aren't; women, though, still are, even in our supposedly more "enlightened" modern era.