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Living in a Porn Culture

By ADF Alliance Alert

The question I pose in Pornland is, what does it mean to grow up in a society where the average age of first viewing porn is 11 for boys, and where girls are being inundated with images of themselves as wannabe porn stars? How does a boy develop his sexual identity when porn is often his first introduction into sex? What does it mean for a girl or young woman to see herself as a desired object rather than a desiring subject? What do heterosexual relationships look like when sexual identity is constructed within this porn culture? . . . Porn delivers to men sexist ideology in a way that is incredibly pleasurable, and it is this pleasure that masks the real harm that porn does to the economic, legal and cultural status of women . . .

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).