Quick Post #5

I read "Pornography as a cause of Rape" and I do agree with this article. While I have never thought of porn as a cause of rape I can see from the article how much it effects women and their views on pornography. Diana Russel defined pornography as material created for heterosexual males that combines sex and/or the exposure of genitals with the abuse or degradation of females in a manner that appears to endorse, condone, or encourage such behavior and I thought this was very rough. But viewing it from another perspective makes me realize how she is looking at it. I do think pornography condones how men view and treat women because they want to have these "fantasies" that the men in the videos get when in reality they are abusive and gross. Men are always depicted as dominant in videos and this does cause more sexism because the men then assume they are the powerful ones during intercourse. I think these pornography videos depict women as a minority because that's the mindset men want. They want to be strong and dominant and they are the ones producing most of these videos. I agree with the feminist view on pornography but I did think it's very harsh. I don't know much about the subject and the debate on pornography so this would have to be something I would look more into.