Feministing.com Interviews Shannon Boodram on LAID

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[GREGORYABUTLER]

Ms Boodram,

Congratulations on your book and I wish you the best of luck with your publishing efforts.

With that said, what's with your dislike of pornography?

Let's face it, it's a whole hell of a lot harder for guys to get sex than it is for women - for a lot of guys, if it wasn't for porn, they'd have no sex life at all!

So, while porno has a LOT of problems, I wouldn't be quite so critical of it as you are!

Other than that, great effort, and I hope you sell a lot of books!

[thosegirlsarewild]

I guess I wasn't clear. Porn is fine but the oversaturation of online pornographic content is a problem because the younger generation who have been exposed to it from such a young age think it's normal.

but it ain't normal, it's fantasy and nothing is wrong with fantasy as long as you understand that.

Just like if you watched Avatar a million times then felt like you could jump on a bird's back. And forget selling alot of books, I hope you buy One :D you seem like some1 of influence!

[GREGORYABUTLER]

Well, Ms Boodram, you can definitely count on me buying a copy of your book! [I'm an author myself, so I know how important it is to get your work in the hands of others]

Is your book on Amazon?

if so, I'll go over there and buy it right now.

You do have a point about porn as fantasy - yes, there is a segment of the audience who wrongly think that Porn Is Real Sex and it must be all kinds of awful to have somebody like that as a partner.

[thosegirlsarewild]

Yeah but you can't blame people who only learn about sex through porn, it's a lot of people's only option. Which is ridiculous, this is why I think tantric studies in Asian countries are a legit good idea.

Yeah I'm on Amazon, Banes, Borders and Chapters! What's your book about? I'm clickin on your channel now

[GREGORYABUTLER]

I just went over to amazon, and I just brought a copy of your book, Ms Boodram!

[thosegirlsarewild]

genuine things. I'm checking your page on amazon right now, you have a nice review in there!

[ima8track]

Young teens often only have porn as their source for discovering "appropriate" means for sexual expression. Often the acts performed in porn are violent and degrading, especially to women. If youth grow up believing what they see on the internet is "real" then it is easy to see how porn distorts people's perception of what constitutes healthy sexual practices.

Unfortunately, the number of people who think Porn is Real Sex is increasing with the growing availability of pornographic.

[EbonyGirlSpeaks]

you're getting closer to Tyra!!!!!!!

[CpsLock3]

@vapid1000 She'll be an Oprah ripp off though echoing the same things she said in diffrent sentinces.

[numberexex]

sex is a selfish act only narcissistic sociopaths.

[vapid1000]

You should have your own talk show. I think you'd be great at it.

[verizen]

@PFCAhammed Well that's exactly it, it's a output for men to eroticize desires. But this is just a point from radical cultural feminists who are against pornography. Most liberal feminists want to reclaim pornography and would like more women to watch it. Philosophers also have different ideas aswell. Just different opinions.

[PFCAhammed]

@TheMonstersAreDue maybe if women these days werent such fucking bitches we wouldnt have to use it.

[TheMonstersAreDue]

Pornography answers the questions of violence against women. It constructs women as a tool for male force as pleasure that permits men to "have" whatever that they want sexually.

[Jdxb1]

You Girls are REAL!

[ORVX]

fyi, Jesica loves porn! like I said, you don't want to go her road, only broken and destroyed hopes and dreams when you get their. U must know what a miserbale person she is. truse me she hate her self more then I do, and that is saying alot.