optikalz

I was doing some random reading on the Net when I came across this doozie:


"Pornography, like rape, is a male invention, designed to dehumanize women, to reduce the female to an object of sexual access, not to free sensuality from moralistic or parental inhibition. The staple of porn will always be the naked body, breasts and genitals exposed, because as man devised it, her naked body is the female's 'shame', her private parts the private property of man, while his are the ancient, holy, universal, patriarchal instrument of his power, his rule by force over her. Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda." Susan Brownmiller
Against Our Will

Fortunately, the major trend in feminist theory is moving away from porn as a degradation of women to the position that porn can sometimes liberate women by viewing them as equal economic participants trading on their sexuality.

Personally, I often view the resistance to porn by old school feminists as hold overs of deep rooted Victorian morality that reduced women's sexuality to the level of property. As long as the model knows full well her rights and she signs a release...