BBC: Is Porn Good for You? Feminist V Feminist Debate

[wehateporn]

The BBC have decided to put this debate in the hands of two feminists instead of contacting the experts on GFY. In one corner we have a feminist in her 70's who thinks that porn should be banned so as boyfriends don't ask their girlfriends to get a full Brazilian, in the other corner we have a feminist who beleives porn helps amputee and obese women to realize that there are men out there who find them attractive too, and that porn helps keep couples stay together when one still has a sex drive and the other one doesn't. Let's see who wins, you decide

Video: Is porn good for you?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22261144

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"Pornography is good for us: without it we would be a far more repressed society."

That is the subject of a debate to held by Intelligence Squared, a forum for discussion in London, this evening.

Anna Arrowsmith, feminist pornographic film director who works under the pseudonym Anna Span, and runs a campaign website for people who work in the sex industry called Consent.org, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague that pornography can keep couples together by pornography's use "as a stop gap", if there is a discrepancy between couple's sex drives.

"It's democratized the body" she said, adding that "in the porn industry there is a market for everything".

Germaine Greer, feminist author, academic and broadcaster, indicated that it may not be quite as beneficial.

"Pornography is an industry... [it] is the literature of prostitution," she said.

"Pornography is strictly a way to make money," she added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22261144

[_Richard_]

i love the 'porn is sexist towards women, so we should make them stop doing porn' arguments

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by _Richard_

i love the 'porn is sexist towards women, so we should make them stop doing porn' arguments

Then the feminists would allow Gay Porn and CFNM to remain

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by wehateporn

Then the feminists would allow Gay Porn and CFNM to remain

well how is that idea/statement not sexist?

it's the equivalent of saying CEOs should stop being CEOs cause they should be spending time with their families

'they should stop sucking dick for money because it offends my personal views of what women should be doing'

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by _Richard_

well how is that idea/statement not sexist?

it's the equivalent of saying CEOs should stop being CEOs cause they should be spending time with their families

'they should stop sucking dick for money because it offends my personal views of what women should be doing'

They have double-standards for sure, but they can never see it