Sarah94610
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Female Pornography -exploitative or empowering?
The most popular opinion concerning female pornography (at least in academia) is that pornography is an expression of male culture through which women are exploited and degraded, and that ‘pro-sex’ feminists who believe that women make their own choices about pornography are “eroticizing dominance and subordination”. However, over the past decade, a growing number of feminists (myself included) have defended a woman’s choice to participate in pornography, regarding it as an un-coerced choice, which can be empowering. I think that every peaceful choice a women makes with her body must be accorded full legal protection, if not respect. What do people think? “A woman’s body, a woman’s right”?
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6/11/2006, 1:16 pm
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NancyKoroviev
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Re: Female Pornography -exploitative or empowering?
My brain isn't up to much debate today but... I love porn. As long as a woman is strong enough to make sure she's never taken advantage of... I know it's not that black and white but put it this way, if the opportunity ever came up for me to do porn and my bikini linewas in order I would totally jump at the chance. AND I'd be proud of it!
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6/12/2006, 4:22 pm
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evilpixie
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Re: Female Pornography -exploitative or empowering?
i believe that if a woman, or a man, wants to take her (his) clothes off / have sex etc and get paid for it, then by all means they should do so and it is no one else's business to tell them they shouldn't be doing it.
i do not think that people who make porn purely because they can't find other ways to make money should be making porn.
to me porn is about celebrating sexuality and enjoying yourself: i like to see pictures of naked people who are definitely having fun. they are a billion times sexier than people who evidently are hating every minute. that's just a turn off.
so, so far, in summary: if people want to make porn, then good. this is the empowering bit. if they don't but do anyway, then bad. this is the exploitative bit. if people want to see porn, let them see porn. if they don't want to, let them shut up and stop spoilling it for other people.
some things to take into account:
- women make about 10 times as much in porn movies than the men do - so who's exploiting who?
- the people who claim porn is just degrading to women don't seem to recognise that there's a large amount of porn which features no women at all
- women enjoy watching porn just as much as men do (though probably not the same kinds)
overall summary: it can be both exploitative and empowering, though rarely at the same time. and i'd rather allow the exploitative bits through than advocate censorship, which should be spurned at all costs.
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6/26/2006, 9:49 pm
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