Porn isn't about sex. It's about power. Not the power of women over men, as one poster claims. If porn was about sex, why would the most popular pornography be all about humiliation, violence, and torture? Porn is fulfilling and perpetuating a fantasy of punishing women.
Porn isn't sex. Pornography is pimps and johns, outsourced and mass-mediated. When you masturbate to pornography, you are buying a prostitute. The fact that there are technologies of film or video between you and the pimp doesn't change the equation. You're still just a john.
This is what porn is really about:
I'd like to really show what I believe the men want to see: violence against women. I firmly believe that we serve a purpose by showing that. The most violent we can get is the cum shot in the face. Men get off behind that, because they get even with the women they can't have. We try to inundate the world with orgasms in the face.
-Porn actor and activist Bill Margold, quoted in Stoller and Levine's "Coming Attractions"
Watching porn is the same as hacking someone's computer and installing spy software on it? Sounds like a power trip to me. The excitement of looking for porn of someone you know sounds like it's based on the porn-conditioned sexual response to watching someone be hurt and humiliated. It's even more "exciting" to see someone you have personally met be humiliated than to see the humiliation of a complete stranger.
Didn't these guys find enough photos of naked women on the internet?
Maybe all that porn watching addled his tiny mind. Maybe he believes he is allowed to do anything he wants to any woman he wants. That's what porn teaches you, isn't it? Porn consumption is all about a power game. This is a natural progression, taking what you learn out into your neighborhood.
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Porn isn't sex. Pornography is pimps and johns, outsourced and mass-mediated. When you masturbate to pornography, you are buying a prostitute. The fact that there are technologies of film or video between you and the pimp doesn't change the equation. You're still just a john.
This is what porn is really about:
-Porn actor and activist Bill Margold, quoted in Stoller and Levine's "Coming Attractions"
Watching porn is the same as hacking someone's computer and installing spy software on it? Sounds like a power trip to me. The excitement of looking for porn of someone you know sounds like it's based on the porn-conditioned sexual response to watching someone be hurt and humiliated. It's even more "exciting" to see someone you have personally met be humiliated than to see the humiliation of a complete stranger.
Maybe all that porn watching addled his tiny mind. Maybe he believes he is allowed to do anything he wants to any woman he wants. That's what porn teaches you, isn't it? Porn consumption is all about a power game. This is a natural progression, taking what you learn out into your neighborhood.