The Price of Pleasure - Noam Chomsky on Pornography (Extra Feature) - Available on DVD

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Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has emerged as one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries, assuming an unprecedented role in the mainstream of our popular culture at the same time that its content has become more extreme and harsh, more overtly sexist and racist. This eye-opening and disturbing film tackles the complexity behind this seeming paradox, placing the voices of critics, producers, and performers alongside the observations of men and women as they candidly discuss the role pornography has played in shaping their sexual imaginations and relationships. Honest and non-judgmental, The Price of Pleasure moves beyond the liberal versus conservative debates so common in the culture to paint a myth-busting and nuanced portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, liberty and responsibility have become intertwined in the most intimate area of our lives. An ideal tool for initiating classroom discussion about this notoriously difficult subject.

Open Lens Media & The Media Education Foundation presents
A film by Miguel Picker & Chyng Sun
Associate Producer: Robert Wosnitzer

The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships

http://www.thepriceofpleasure.com
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[ChronoTriggerMusic]

The only reason so many people here disagree with him is because they love their porn, and they refuse to listen to anyone that says otherwise.

[BrigitteAbbendis]

Whenever I become aroused I think of Noam Chomsky in order to not masturbate. Am I a fundamentalist?

[smellyfooty]

the whole world is surrounded by DESTRUCTIVE behavior. consensual adult behaviour is nothing compared non-consensual violent human destruction.

[Rahab111222]

@ChronoTriggerMusic

I don't think guys are going to stop getting hard-ons from the sight of a pair of tits and ass anytime soon, especially just by looking at a simulated version of it every once in a while.

[principles101]

Ted Bundy stated that "porn" was responsible for his outrageous killings which started influencing him early in his life.

[ChronoTriggerMusic]

@Rahab111222 Ah yes, you're right, it has the potential, but does porn not desensitize people to sexual images?

[Rahab111222]

@ChronoTriggerMusic

""Porn is also addictive""

Correction, porn just like every other recreational form of pleasure has the POTENTIAL to be addictive.

""it is harmful to the psyche because it desensitizes you to the idea of sexuality""

The 'idea of sexuality'. Is that something you can poke and prod in a lab? Otherwise it just sounds like vague spiritual clap trap. I'm sorry your idea is being battered to a pulp by watching porn, then.

[ChronoTriggerMusic]

@Rahab111222 I've never taken any sort of women studies courses. Porn is also addictive, and it is harmful to the psyche because it desensitizes you to the idea of sexuality and sexual images which I would consider unhealthy but that's relative.

[Rahab111222]

@ChronoTriggerMusic

"That's stupid reasoning."

Irony is ironic.

The heroin analogy also doesn't stand up to scrutiny, because heroine demonstrably shows it has a tangibly harmful effect to one's health because of its addictive and life threatening effects.You said you liked porn, so I don't have to tell you that it's possible to use porn in a recreational manner without becoming a caricature craven porn addict these clowns in your local women-studies class like to espouse.

[ChronoTriggerMusic]

@Rahab111222 That's stupid reasoning. I like porn, but I know objectively that it's not healthy for the mind. It's like someone saying, heroin is bad, then all the heroin addict come and say, yeah right, this guy is full of it.

[Rahab111222]

@ChronoTriggerMusic

The only reason you're anti-porn is because you hate porn and you refuse to listen to anyone that says otherwise.

[Lunis]

Noam really is a romantic at heart - which would also explain why he's an anarcho-syndicalist.