Yeah from an ethics view that seems like the only acceptable option other than just abstaining from pornography entirely. I think that the porn industry also contributes massively to misogynistic culture and regulating or abolishing the industry as it is would be a critical victory for the left.
The thing is though that it doesn't so much contribute to the culture as replay it. Everything stereotypical about porn--jacked black dudes with huge dicks stealing your white women, women just needing be forced into it then they'll enjoy it, the boss/professor/authority figure taking advantage of a vulnerable girl, that sex is solely for a man's pleasure and his ejaculation is the most important aspect, the increasing spectacle of rougher and more demeaning sex, etc. etc. etc.--that came from the society itself. Instead of smoking cigarettes behind the gym and talking about which girls are willing to do what, you do it online now.
But it's a huge industry, and it's recently played up the progressive language and pretending to care about safe sex and sponsoring Youtubers/streamers and stuff to rebrand itself as somehow forward-thinking. So now they can dismiss any criticism as being sex-negative or a moral panic rather than about their actual practices.
Absolutely the way companies like porn hub try to act woke and nice while profiting from rape and abuse is just sickening.
I suppose with the culture question is a bit of a "chicken or the egg" thing; did misogynistic culture produce violent degrading porn or did violent porn produce a misogynistic culture? In reality its probably a mix of both.
did misogynistic culture produce violent degrading porn or did violent porn produce a misogynistic culture?
The first one.
Literally everything seen in porn that can be seen as misogynistic or cruel existed before it. The culture today isn't more accepting of brutality than it was fifty years ago, they're just more aware of it.
Yeah from an ethics view that seems like the only acceptable option other than just abstaining from pornography entirely. I think that the porn industry also contributes massively to misogynistic culture and regulating or abolishing the industry as it is would be a critical victory for the left.
The thing is though that it doesn't so much contribute to the culture as replay it. Everything stereotypical about porn--jacked black dudes with huge dicks stealing your white women, women just needing be forced into it then they'll enjoy it, the boss/professor/authority figure taking advantage of a vulnerable girl, that sex is solely for a man's pleasure and his ejaculation is the most important aspect, the increasing spectacle of rougher and more demeaning sex, etc. etc. etc.--that came from the society itself. Instead of smoking cigarettes behind the gym and talking about which girls are willing to do what, you do it online now.
But it's a huge industry, and it's recently played up the progressive language and pretending to care about safe sex and sponsoring Youtubers/streamers and stuff to rebrand itself as somehow forward-thinking. So now they can dismiss any criticism as being sex-negative or a moral panic rather than about their actual practices.
Absolutely the way companies like porn hub try to act woke and nice while profiting from rape and abuse is just sickening.
I suppose with the culture question is a bit of a "chicken or the egg" thing; did misogynistic culture produce violent degrading porn or did violent porn produce a misogynistic culture? In reality its probably a mix of both.
The first one.
Literally everything seen in porn that can be seen as misogynistic or cruel existed before it. The culture today isn't more accepting of brutality than it was fifty years ago, they're just more aware of it.