Opening Remarks: Nat'l Conf on Pornography & Pop Culture

Opening remarks to the National Feminist Conference on Pornography & Pop Culture by Dr. Gail Dines, Wheelock College in Boston

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• Dines
• Wheelock
• Pornography
• Anti-porn

[Shukria123]

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[feedtherightwolf]

Feminism are the once who advocated for pornography to begin with.

[swimmingwgoggles]

@UCKABAH Sexually transmitted diseases/infections would not exist and broken families would be much less common. There is another way to a better, more peaceful world and it is not though 9 year-old boys watching easily accesible porn. I only hope you may see where I am coming from. Sex is very very good and porn has done much apparent damage to the world. Also, I never stated that everything should be legislated. People should just always try to do the right thing.

[swimmingwgoggles]

@UCKABAH it boils down to a person's scruples and their creed. Sex shared between a husband and wife is a beautiful gift. Imagine where the divorce rate would be if a man's wife was the only naked woman he had ever seen and vice versa. There would be no pressure and there would be mutual discovery. Experts do say that the fewer past sex partners a person has, the better their odds at a happy marriage. That is proven.

[swimmingwgoggles]

@UCKABAH many women are unwillingly employed. Maybe you should do some research before taking such a righteous stance. The serial killers I stated (and most others) all attacked women. It gave them a rush. It was an escalation. You keep doing this, it doesn't turn you on anymore, therefore you turn it up a notch and it continues to get more and more severe. Read/watch what comes directly out of Ted Bundy's mouth the weeks/days before his execution, and tell me I am being absurd. In the end,

[swimmingwgoggles]

@UCKABAH by watching pornography to feed their sexual hunger, his/her mind can collaborate with real acts and real images, eventually giving urges for something more extreme. Thus, leading to child pornography and the sex trade. The last time I checked, those things were outlawed and I never felt the need to question it. So with your logic, should we lift the ban on child pornography, sex trafficking, and drugs as well in order to make the world better and more just? Look into porn and see how

[UCKABAH]

@swimmingwgoggles (cont'd) citing serial killers is a clear absurd. Serial killers are absolutely atypical and if you're suggesting pornography caused created Ted Bundy you're just being ridiculous, no expert has that view. Let's take porn out of the equation. Is all masturbation bad? Men and women both do it. Often thinking about someone they know, a celebrity, etc. Is this inherently different than porn? Is it porn you hate or just sex? It's impossible to legislate everything.

[UCKABAH]

@swimmingwgoggles I'm not sure what "people like yourself" is supposed to mean. I have watched porn, yes, but I'm not here to stand up for it and champion it as something wonderful and fantastic. At the end of the day, we cannot just censor things because we don't like or agree with them. If people like yourself had their way, it would be outlawed, forcing the industry underground and if you think it's perverted and exploitive now, wait until it is made completely illegal. Citing serial killers-

[swimmingwgoggles]

@UCKABAH does not apply to some very enlightened people. Everyone has badness within them. Music videos, magazines, television, et cetera, everything is more and more about sex because human urges don't just stop. Pornography cannot become outlawed because it is a major industry thanks to people like yourself who give it more undeserved power. How did sex trafficking even begin?

[swimmingwgoggles]

@UCKABAH would even do anything for them. Desires get more intense as people are exposed to porn. If you can't live without it, it is an addiction. We have the most gruesome serial rapists/murderers in the modern era as the access to pornography becomes easier and easier. It also hurts marriages and children who are sold into the sex trafficking industry. My point is that pornography will not be the end to sexual depravity and any functional person can become messed up. Don't think human nature

[swimmingwgoggles]

@UCKABAH or someone you know. It is proven that people become desensitized more and more as well. To get off after awhile, he/she needs something more intens. Look at some of the most gruesome and merciless serial killers: Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Ed Gein, and the Zodiac Killer. They were sexually twisted and disgusting individuals who all killed women for the rush. It satisfied their thirst that even regular sex could not even quench. You should ask them if they ever watched porn and if it

[swimmingwgoggles]

@UCKABAH It notes that I watched this video three years ago, and I am not willing to watch it again for the time being because I remember my perfectly valid and proven logic. I am quite aware men have sexual urges, (what, every seven seconds he thinks about sex?) but to be clear, my point was that a man's sexual desire is easily perverted. When you watch porn are you fantasizing about having intercourse with your computer chair? I hope not. You are fantasizing about a woman/man on the screen