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o_O.Q said:
Jumpin said:
I am not sure how porn can make you think a certain way except horny. Not any more than violent TV and games turns people into ravenous murderers.

I also don't find the argument that porn makes men into misogynists to be at all persuasive. It's clear that the majority of misogynists are anti-porn; you need look no further than TV news shows.

porn commodifies the bodies of women for the exploitation of men, allowing men to bypass the normal negotiation for consent for sexual access

 

it literally parallels and emulates rape since the man does not have to get to know the woman or anything, its all about sexual access at the click of a button

 

i just cannot understand how its not immediately clear how evil porn is

Your missionary work is not going to work here.

Both men and women watch porn, both women and men act in porn. These facts alone destroy your assumptions. Also, there's no bypass of consent for sexual access, contracts are negotiated like any other acting gig. The definition of rape is NOT "having anonymous sex" either. And watching two other people have sex on a screen is NOT having sex with them. Seeing someone naked is not rape by any definition in the world in any place in the history of humanity; the closest it ever got was in the Restoration period England back in the 17th century where women acting (nude or not) was equated to prostitution - and that's also a bit because actresses often took prostitution side-gigs in that era.

The reason you are having trouble understanding is because your premises have no basis in reality. Rather, they sound like they originated in some kind of puritanical cult.

The fact of the matter is that the countries where porn is illegal are also the countries with the most misogynist cultures; these include every country where female genital mutilation is enforced and prevalent, and every country where women lack rights as simple as having uncovered hair.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.