How people are portrayed in pornography is terrible for me. I for one, am against pornography because first, there is a widespread societal issue of men and women seeing pornography from a young age and creating ideas from the images they see of how they think sex is. Before they even see a naked person, they see naked women being violated and see the “ideal” man, or they might model their behavior after these fake sex scenes. Second, I think its horribly abusive in terms of being forced to perform sexual acts for money when the performers might not have any other options.

I think there are new ways for people to express themselves sexually without any violence, on the internet there are women streaming sexual acts of themselves on their own terms. It is still possible it could be sending negative images or abuse. I think that there is a giant scheme to keep women’s enjoyment of sexual acts down, porn makes it seem like women never enjoy sex, there was a stop to development of a female viagra, women have to take pills to control their birth cycles rather than developing something to work on men.
I’ve read a little bit about reclaiming women’s sexuality, in the past it seems like men have taken over what women’s sexuality should be, an example of this being lesbian porn, it’s made for men’s viewing pleasure about the idea of owning two women at once, it’s not “hardcore” unless it involves penises and torture.

“Imagery follows politics, says Wolf. An uptick in violence against women may be a backlash to gains in women’s power.” I think that women have always been targets of violence or control, I think about women’s foot binding in China, people literally mutilated women’s bodies for their viewing pleasure, I think it has some parallels to pornography. I think porn has changed my generation for the worse, I actually have read somewhere millennial men are more misogynistic than baby boomers, I attribute a lot of that to the widespread violence in porn.

With gratitude, the connection of the cruelty towards women in media you’ve displayed in connections with supreme court justices to video games to eras of pornography puts this issue into the hands of everyone. No matter your age, sexual preference, profession, etc., just living in this country makes every susceptible to the social construction of violence against women, and more should be doing something to ackloweldge the wrong being done, and strive to stop it. Patriarchy is going to fight for its reign over society, battling the women who are fighting to be equals, “In backlash, portrayals of women freely enjoying sexuality were restrained, men were reassured that women weren’t so powerful, and everyone got the message that women were most attractive when they were dominated and powerless.” To put it bluntly, it’s simply inhumane for our society to accept that sexual violence against women is not as bad as a woman having sex for pure pleasure. This societal boundary we place on sex and violence for females is oppressing for her and more empowering for him. Two steps forward and ten steps back for the equality of women.