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I feel like this article is taking some premises that are mostly true and just wildly spinning them out of proportion. Young people are most definitely not prudes - we just understand the sort of distortion that mainstream pornography can have on people’s understandings of sex. Nothing more, nothing less.
Jesus. I have a lot of problems with mainstream porn too, but
“Liberal feminism telling young girls that hookup culture is liberating, conditioning them to think that if you don’t have extreme kinks at a young age then they’re boring and vanilla, and encouraging them to get into sex work the minute they turn 18.”
is just a gigantic fucking strawmen
Wow, she’s reaching so far in this article she is now eligible to join the IUOE.
EDIT: Just to be clear, yes, porn gives people shitty ideas about sex, and large sections of the porn industry need to have a good time. Also the consequences of the sexual revolution have meant that a lot of shitty people, mostly men, try shitty things.
Sex workers still cool, people still gonna watch porn, millennials/zoomers still horny as fuck. Also, the misrepresentation of Dworkin fills my SWERF bingo card.
Holy SWERF batwoman. The last two paragraphs sort of balance it out at least.
Before I write anything else: I’ve fought for years to assert my sexuality, but everyone’s experiences are going to be different. I understand and support other women who feel differently about themselves. Walk your walk, you are valid.
Okay, it’s dunkachino time.
a culture that prizes erotic license over empathy and responsibility
These things are not mutually exclusive. Erotic gratification is built from empathy and owning our bodies.
Mainstream pro-wrestling style porn can be alienating for some peeps, but the way for us to overcome that isn’t by stigmatizing all porn. We should understand what the fuck that represents, that it isn’t how most people make fuck. If you don’t watch porn, you fill in the blanks with other shit anyway. You know, like soaking and jump humping.
Liberal sex positivity is like liberal feminism, it is watered down and easily hijacked by the patriarchy. No surprise sexist psychos try to gaslight women and invalidate their desires. They try to do that with everything.
SWERF brainworms show up even with leftists and it blows big fatty fucking chunks. I haven’t read the other comments yet, but I’ll bet there’s at least one dude spewing out their resentment against women instead of facing their own self-loathing. They love to dress that shit up with “concern for women”. Those guys are losers and should fuck off until they sort through their shit.
imo this article had real “why conservatism is the new punk rock” vibes to me.
