Porn!

1. soooooo… when my girlfriend first suggested to me that we should watch porn together, I should have told her that there was something wrong with her instead of enjoying it with her? progressive!

2. Saying that there shouldn’t be any porn because some porn is made by exploting women is like saying that everybody should walk around naked because some clothes are made by exploting children.

   You have to be discerning. Both in the porn that you consume and the partners you choose to sleep with.

   To all the women why say that men are “programmed” into disrespecting women by porn. Every man I have ever been with has looked at porn. None of them ever treated me violently or disrespectfully or expected DD boobs, reverse cowgirl and facials all the time. This is because I’ve made a policy of not sleeping with with assholes.

   If some guy is mal-adjusted enough that he can’t distinguish between pornography and real sex, then, why are you fucking him?

3. Maybe the matinee, but definitely not full price.

   And I’d be very disappointed if one of those girls were my teen daughter. Cheerleaders in a locker room? C’mon, sweetheart. I understand the money thing, but you might regret later for agreeing to do something as predictable and cliche. As if the viewer doesn’t know how this scene will end up.

   And any teen daughter of mine would be so grounded for the tattoos. Serious.

4. I like the porn review.

   It’s a vast improvement over the infantile ‘Drunk of the Week’.

5. i like porn, chicks that don’t typically don’t do anal and get cheated on

6. “You have to be discerning. Both in the porn that you consume and the partners you choose to sleep with.”

   The most downloaded porn is the most degrading and strange, i.e., animal/human sex. That’s a fact. People are NOT discerning, especially young boys and teen boys.

7. The Yale Daily News had an interesting article on the fetishism of Asian women that exists in American culture.

   The article was written in lieu of the grad student from Princeton who was recently arrested for terrorizing over 50 Asian women on campus. While the authors admit that this may very well be an isolated case of perversion, sexual assaults specifically targeted against Asian women do exist and the reasons behind it need to be addressed.

   InSight, the only Asian-American women’s organization on Yale campus, held a meeting focusing on this issue of the sexual fixation on Asian women in the media, and society as a whole. They are typically portrayed as exotic, passive “geisha girls” who are sexually submissive and easily dominated. This oversexualization of Asian women not only causes the occasional sicko to terrorize a number of women, but has had more consequential effects than generally thought. For example, in a study conducted in 2002, out of 31 random pornographic websites that included the rape and torture of women, nearly half of the sites used depictions of Asian women receiving the abuse. The authors (who are members of InSight) also make it a point to show that while an estimated 26 percent of rape victims come forward to report the assault, only 8 percent of Asian female victims report it.

   At the end of the article, the authors say:

   “It may be easy to disregard the widespread existence of an Asian fetish as an ‘annoying’ but essentially benign phenomenon that does not need to be taken seriously. But, as the Princeton episode demonstrates, we need to be aware of the violent and perverse forms it can take and its serious ramifications.”

   Word. Too many people just shrug off these racist and sexist images of Asian women (and all women of color, for that matter) that end up resulting in objectification, rape, and abuse. It’s time to wake the fuck up and smell the injustice.

8. Men, say psychologists, feel threatened by the “emotional power” they perceive women wielding over them. Unable to feel alive except when in relationships with women, they are at the same time painfully aware that their only salvation from isolation comes in being sexually acceptable to women. This sense of neediness can provoke intense anger that, all too often, finds expression in porn. Unlike real life, the pornographic world is a place in which men find their authority unchallenged and in which women are their willing, even grateful servants. “The illusion is created,” as one male writer on pornography puts it, “that women are really in their rightful place and that there is, after all, no real and serious challenge to male authority.” Seen in this light, the patently ridiculous pornography scenario of the pretty female flat-hunter (or hitch-hiker, driver with broken-down car, or any number of similar such vulnerable roles) who is happy to let herself be gang-banged by a group of overweight, hairy-shouldered couch potatoes makes perfect psychological sense.

   The porn industry, of course, dismisses such talk, yet occasionally comes a glimmer of authenticity. Bill Margold, one of the industry’s longest-serving film performers, was interviewed in 1991 by psychoanalyst Robert Stoller for his book Porn: Myths For The Twentieth Century. Margold made no attempt to gloss over the realities. “My whole reason for being in this industry is to satisfy the desire of the men in the world who basically don’t care much for women and want to see the men in my industry getting even with the women they couldn’t have when they were growing up. So we come on a woman’s face or brutalise her sexually: we’re getting even for lost dreams.”

9. Pornography is so important, I think, because of how it touches on every aspect of women’s lower status: economic degradation, dehumanisation, woman hating, sexual domination, systematic sexual abuse. If someone thinks she can get women economic equality, for instance, without dealing in some way with the sexual devaluation of women as such, I say she’s wrong; but I also say work on it, try, organise; I will be there for her, as a resource, carrying picket signs, making speeches, signing petitions, supporting lawsuits for economic equality. But if she thinks the way to advance women is to organise against those of us who are organising against sexual exploitation and abuse, then I say I don’t respect that; it’s horizontal hostility, not feminism. Women willing to let other women do the so-called sex work, be the prostitutes, while they lead respectable professional lives in law or in the academy [or in the media], frankly, make me sick. I concentrate my energy, however, on uniting with women who want to fight sexual exploitation, not on arguing with women who defend it.

10. Porn is so expensive and the good ones are so hard to find.
    Great review! This woman here is very excited.
    Boobies!!!
    That’s right. I said it.

11. I would like to second that comment by my good friend, and fellow resident here in the 9th circle of hell, Andrea Dworkin.

12. yeah… Falwell is right. I’ve heard Michael Medved and Dr. Laura make a lot of the same arguements.

    I get that a lot of people don’t like porn, but a lot of people do as well. men AND women. I regret to inform you, sorry. if you’re so concerned about the impact it has on the lives of women doing it, why don’t you trying communicating to them, not preach, just listen to what they have to say?

    and why is this only woman specific? who’s standing up for all the degraded homos in gay porn?

13. Now THAT is a movie review! Makes me want to run right out and rent/watch it!
    Much better than the usual Stranger reviews.

14. Mom:

    Statistics posted without verifiable sources are useless.

15. I’m a straight guy who’s been asked by more than one woman I’ve been intimate with if I had some porn we could watch? This despite the fact that I certainly don’t need any stimulation other than a half-naked woman to make my soldier stand up and salute. Apparently some women DO genuinely like porn, deal with it!

16. I don’t really see how anyone can focus on the porn reviews in a newspaper full of escort ads.

17. Fnarf – Painful, Shameful and Emotionally Scarring is an awesome title for a porno.

18. Michel: Here are your sources

19. Porn Denial,

    You’re not considering any porn but the one variety that supports your thesis that anger at women is the only motivation for male consumers.

    Porn expresses as wide a variety of psychological motivations as there are individual sexual preferences. But good porn in my opinion is any which allows on-camera participants a truly orgasmic level experience. Scenarios which obviously don’t like you describe, are turn-offs. And unfortunately, most porn production involving women generally fails to provide the kind of personally tailored, supportive environment required for the actor to do more than act out her orgasm.

20. The important question: where can I get this picture?

    🙂

21. Oh. My. God.

    I think I just figured it out. I think this thread shows that 99% of all the fuckhead posts over the last few months are ONE person.

    The anti-porn comments in this thread share the exact same characteristics with the right wing and racist comments in other threads:

    * the individual (we’ll call him or her “fuckhead” for short) bombards the thread with unlinked (and usually unattributed) “news” articles
    * the fuckhead never deigns to use consistent handles. I don’t think there’s a single second post from one of the severely anti-porn commenters above.
    * in this particular thread, the fuckhead is using many of the same arguments in many, many “different” comments.

    I’m now confident this is the work of one, or maybe two, different people. My vote is a deeply conservative stay at home mom who’s decided to cleanse the Seattle of all us perverts.

22. Most importantly, how can you call Manuel Ferrara “superhumanly gorgeous”?! He looks like that Girls Gone Wild douche.

23. i am a woman.

    i enjoy porn.

    i enjoyed your article.

    i will check out said movie.

    thanks.

24. Since there are no men in the picture shown it’s safe to say that neither I nor any of my heterosexual girlfriends would have any interest in seeing a movie like this.

    Cathy K

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