Reply #59: I'm a feminist and I don't really have a problem with porn.

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Just as long as everybody is a consenting adult.

I bought my fiance a subscription to Playboy. He doesn't get to look at it first every month because I always steal it out of the mailbox to read the articles (really!). I joke that I should register as a member of the "Playboy Party" because I so often agree with the political viewpoints espoused in their articles (except for the gun control thing, but I think they're coming around on that one).

I don't feel degraded by the pictures in Playboy, nor do I imagine the models feel degraded either. They pay those girls quite a bit of money, I hear. If I were a little younger and a little less beholden to the law of gravity, I might send in a picture myself. I did quite a bit of nude modeling in my late teens and early twenties (for artsy type drawing and photography) and the pictures I have from that time are some of my dearest possessions. I never felt degraded. I felt like a beautiful, sexy woman.

Actually, truth be told, I feel more degraded by Cosmo. Honestly. I cancelled my subscription because I was tired of being told that I needed to be a 5'10" 110 lb A-cup sex maniac with no ambition in life outside of shoe shopping to be a good woman. At least Playboy has girls who look like girls - I am a short curvy/busty girl (and I don't mean fat) and I kind of feel "degraded" when I never see any women in MSM who actually look like women anymore - what's up with the waify boy look, huh? At least in Playboy the women have breasts and a back end on them...