SIU random diatribe #1: why i hate porn

so here's my deal with porn: i have old-school, pretty radical feminist politics. i like porn and watch porn, and while i don't feel guilty about it i do feel like it's incumbent on watchers to sit back every once in a while and figure out what exactly is getting them off and why. i think there is a lot of deception, exploitation, and violence in various adult industries, and i try to be a thoughtful, aware consumer. i tend to like amateur &/or homemade stuff, because i think the women are often more attractive (less skinny, fewer implants, shorter fingernails) and the sex is hotter cause they are having some fun. but mainstream porn, both video and online, has been really pissing me off for a long time.

i wish that we as a society would just say out loud, "you know, we're really threatened by women's halting but real progress toward social and economic equality. all that stuff about women earning the same as men and having educational opportunities and access to things like contraception and abortion makes it really seem like women could be independent, equal human beings, recognized as individuals worthy of respect and dignity. and that's sort of scary.

so how about if every porn flick made for the last five years has women getting relentlessly and roughly fucked up the ass, preferably by a few different guys and if possible at the same time, then make her suck her own ass juice off the various cocks that have just been inside her. let's be sure that porn never shows, values, or makes even the slightest gesture (so to speak) toward women's sexual pleasure or fulfillment, except as another way to show men's power over women's bodies. let's focus on pure, unadulterated humiliation, like having a woman perform oral sex on a man for pretty much the sole purpose of making her puke and cry on camera. let's be sure to make women feel degraded and dirty for being sexual by kicking them to the curb, literally and figuratively, after we're done fucking them.

let's be sure that men expect and that women believe that you can't have sex unless the woman looks like a pre-pubescent child, with every scrap of pubic hair removed, asshole waxed and bleached, and bones poking out everywhere--except that she's also gotta have impossibly large breasts that are completely out of proportion to her figure and likely to give her back problems for the rest of her life. and best of all--let's make pornification such a prevalent and acceptable part of everyday life that women believe their worth in the world is wrapped up in showing their tits, taking on a gang bang, doing shit they don't like with men who have the sexual finesse and skill of a goat, and generally making their sexual freedom and desire subservient to men.

yeah. we're starting to feel less worried about that whole 'women's equality' thing now. what a relief."