Chomsky on Porn

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37. seems like this statement arbitrarily restricted his scope to the role of women in pornography

Now it is a short statement, so given that, addressing the industry's maltreatment of females is probably the single-most pressing item on the agenda. But it leaves open a whole range of discussion topics on which he might very well have interesting opinions.

There are men working in the porn industry, willfully and for pay. Is he insinuating that they unable to get decent jobs elsewhere? Or are their roles so fundamentally different that they are not considered degraded the way women are?

There is pornography which excludes women entirely -- is he okay with gay porn?

What about simulated pornography, e.g. hentai? No women are abused in such productions, but the depictions can be at least as vulgar and degrading as anything Hustler has ever published. To what extent is the depiction of a degrading act itself a problem for a society?

It'd be nice to see him take longer to go into a more open-ended exposition.