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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Agreed. Is that a reflection on society or the porn industry?
People with a non violent will not create it or buy it. So do we respond or create to the trend, as she wants to imply?
Are people going to the limits to pick up the scraps, because mainstream is out of bounds for them?
Does Paul Little love what he's doing and came to porn with his attitude towards women already firmly in place. Do people who like what he creates cultivated into this theme by him or before they get to him?
There are no simple answers.
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I think we both create to our customers desires and we create in an effort to shock them and draw their interest.
Obviously, if there was nobody out there who liked the stuff, it wouldn't get made. So in some cases it is simply we the supplier making what our customers want. But I think a lot of time our customers don't really know what they want so we push the boundaries, they see it and are shocked by it and they like it because it is new, different and extreme.
You can say the same for video games. I remembers when the game Mortal Kombat came out and it stirred controversy because of the violence in it. When you look at that game now it is cartoony and not that intense. However, games these days are not only getting more and more violent, but they are getting more and more realistic. So you can say the same for the gaming industry as you can us. If there was no market for this stuff, nobody would make it.
All of this said, it doesn't mean that these things cause violence towards women. In the US we love porn and video games but the amount of violence towards women is nothing like it is in other countries. A woman born in South Africa is more likely to be raped than to learn to read. You always hear about women in the middle east getting raped then getting beaten and thrown in jail for it. There is a case right now in Saudi Arabia where a 19 year old girl got raped. She was then convicted of the crime of being in public alone and having sex out of wedlock so they threw her in jail for 12 months. She got pregnant from the rape and now she is told the only way she can reduce her sentence is to agree to marry the father of the child - her rapist.
These are places where porn is banned or much harder to find. These are also places that have limited access to TV, music and video games so clearly it isn't those things that are causing the violence towards women.
A person might even argue that many men are just hyper-aggressive and mean by nature and they are predisposed to be violent towards women. Having porn, video games and home deliver pizza gives them something else to focus that attention on and a way for them to blow off their steam and rid themselves of that aggression instead of otherwise focusing it on someone else.