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In reply to the discussion: Chris Hedges on Pornography, discussing Empire of Illusion on BookTV [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Myself included, bash women on the right, who vote GOP and part of it is because of Liberals slapping down women who complain. While we hear more about the hypocrisy of the right regarding pornography, sexual abuse, and the control of women, the Left lost a lot of women in embracing pornography as liberation.
Choosing who you are going to love or have relations with is liberation, not being used for sex, or harassed into having sex. Same as the birth control argument.
When abortion was legalized and the pill was made readily available, the complaint to women who said 'no' was that they were 'prudes' or 'lesbians.' In other words, they were supposed to take care of the results of intercourse as always, but also, not burden the men with marriage and fatherhood, as well.
That doesn't mean that abortion or birth control should be eliminated, nor that other stuff the right spews. A return to the days without women having the final say on their reproduction, is not liberation.
Most men I know who are Liberal don't defend porn. But a lot of men do, and this is also the basis of a lot of hatred of the film and entertainment industry. Because as Hedges says, they haven't bothered to find out what is going on in the sex industry.
Thanks for posting this video so we can discuss this.