| ReimTime said: The argument of "leaving women to rot" in the real world because you are removing an aspect of their work is a bit exaggerated. All they literally have to do is refrain from publishing material that contains sexual violence. Sexuality is still allowed; it's the rape that isn't. That's a small adaptation to make. She argues that a crap-ton of women are going to lose their jobs because of this? Sob story. Like I said, all they have to do is adapt. There is still a huge pornographic market that will buy their material sans-rape. Under Canada’s Criminal Code: (R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 163; 1993, c. 46, s. 1.) , it is stated that any publication containing the undue exploitation of sex and/or crime, horror, cruelty and violence shall be deemed obscene and is thus illegal. The same goes for many other countries' criminal code. The production and sale of such material in Japan is being justified because of certain articles of the Japanese Constitution - namely Article 21 which guarantees freedom of expression and prohibits censorship. However, these arguments are taking the constitution out of context IMO. They were originally put into place to limit the oppression of any individual who spoke up against the government, not allow for an artist to produce anything under the sun without censorship. And Reason #1 is can be contested. There is a suggestive correlation between viewing material containing sexual violence and producing a psychic desire to inflict the same sexual violence against vulnerable individuals. It isn't as cut and dry as ("oh well they don't exist and we can tell"), especially not when you associate the viewing with pleasure. The argument of the rape rate decreasing is not a valid argument to use either, before anyone pulls that. It rapidly decreased from 1972 - when results became public - to 1983. The spread of pornographic home videos started in the mid 1980s. Since then, the rape rate gradually ceased and then increased by 67% from 1996 to 2003. From 1986 to 2003, the rate of forced obscenity increased by 338%. FURTHERMORE, in a statement from the United States Department of Justice in 1986: "In both clinical and experimental settings, exposure to sexually violent materials has indicated an increase in the likelyhood of aggression. More specifically, the research shows a casual relationship between exposure to this type of material and agressive beahvior towards women. In conclusion, substantial exposure to materials of this type bears some casual relationship to the level of sexual violence, coercion or unwanted sexual aggression in the population so exposed" If you need any more arguments I am ready and able to give them. With help from Shibata, T. (2008). Undoing Sexual Objectification in the Japanese Socio‐Juridical Context: The Human‐Rights‐Oriented Transmutation of the Conception of “Obscene” Material. International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 17(1), 114-128. |
Leaving women to rot doesn't refer to the women mentioned as working in these kind of works, just female victims over the world in general. The ones who work on this are a separate matter, even if they can indeed be seen as a bonus group.
Canada's Criminal Code should be revised because not only is it backwards it's also constantly being broken by western media.
"She argues that a crap-ton of women are going to lose their jobs because of this? Sob story. Like I said, all they have to do is adapt. There is still a huge pornographic market that will buy their material sans-rape. "
How wonderful, it's fine for them to lose their creative/artistic job because they can just go ahead and suck real dick for a living. That does sound in line with the same kind of backwards thinking behind half the laws regulating sexual subjects (which I'd know, as I majored in European Law, even if my area of expertise is Consumer Law)
As for the statement from the DoJ, "casual relationship" is, as usual, just another replacement for "we don't actually know but don't want to say otherwise". Statements lacking assertiveness might as well be printed and used as toilet paper, such is its usefulness or power to convince. On the other hand it does make me question if the women making these things are also sexually violent towards other women or men; maybe we'll find out once they lose their jobs and "go do other pornographic things" like you said.
