Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Pornography
After watching the documentary about pornography I left class with a headache! While watching the documentary so much was going through my mind. things such as why do women do this, why do they let me treat them like this, is this the only way to make good money. I left class looking at porn in such a different light. It is no longer looked at to me as a mean of pleasurably for people but just objectivity for women. Women are clearly just objects in the majority of these porns and it's a sad sight to see. Women such as Jenna Jameson is trying to justify porn and make it seem as a respectable career. No it's not. It'w women(i use that term lightly) subjectify themselves as objects to these men just to please them. Their bodies are taking such a punishment that how can any women even enjoy sex anymore. I know that their vagina's are stretched beyond belief. This documentary changed my outlook on sex in general. I know it may seem like the documentary terrified me but no that's not it because I watched porn before but not like it was displayed in the documentary. I was looking at it in a different light this time then as entertainment. I'm not a big porn fan either. Pornographic videos are now making it hard for us non-porno stars sex life. Now men are going to watch porn or do watch porn and expect the same things from those women in the porn in real life. I am not a porn star so don't expect me to perform like one.
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I completely agree that "the Price of Pleasure" changed my view of pornography. Before I watched the documentary I saw porn as often mildly degrading towards women, but more or less harmless in general. I saw it as a personal choice that's none of my business. I think this is a viewpoint many people share, but I now see it as one that silences any criticism of the porn industry. If you see it simply as a matter of personal taste, that ignores the fact that someone is creating these images; it ignores the multi-billion dollar industry behind these films. But I think that reverting to blaming and slut-shaming the women in pornography is just as silencing, as asking why women involve themselves in porn (money!) ignores the more important questions of why are people creating such disturbing images and (more importantly) why so many people want to watch them.
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ReplyDeleteI agree, the porn industry is not only degrading women as a whole but also degrading the act of sex itself. What I don't like what the porn industry does is put sex on a pedestal where men now think how they have to perform and how they have to act. The movie in class almost made me just get up and leave until it was over. Sex is being displayed as no longer a passionate bond between two people who love each other but rather a degrading and harmful pleasure. It baffles me that all these women are trying to make excuses like Jenna in the movie or the playmates in the reading however simply put whether its through the lifestyle and fashion items they get to have or however they back it up, the women are doing this for the money and simply put I don't know how they can look at themselves in the mirror at night and like what they see.
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