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redqueen

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Sat Oct 27, 2012, 07:35 AM Oct 2012

Lucy Kirkwood: 'Boys are force-fed this very plastic sexuality on a mass scale'

This British dramatist has written a play critiquing rape culture without ever mentioning the phrase.

This article focuses on her work, which has included more observation of the problems so many are so invested in either ignoring, or worse, actively trying to shame and silence anyone who tries to discuss them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/oct/21/lucy-kirkwood-nsfw-pornography-play-interview

NSFW, Lucy Kirkwood's new play, focuses on the relationship between the media and sexuality. She talks about the exposure of teenage boys to pornography, and about dealing with criticism

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"I think people are very afraid of appearing coy or moralising," she says. "No one wants to look prudish and so there almost seems to be an embargo on even discussing any of these issues. There is a new campaign to ban Page 3. I mean, that last one was [led by] Clare Short and we all remember how that turned out."

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The more she has researched, the more disturbed she has become. "We are all sort of pretending it is not happening. I think 12 is the average age for boys to see their first pornography these days, but that doesn't mean picking up a copy of Razzle from a railway siding; it is like some woman having an object shoved into her anus on a sort of high-definition film. I have a friend who is a teacher who had to leave her job because a 15-year-old boy stuck a camera up her skirt and put it online.

"Boys are being force-fed this very plastic sexuality on a mass scale. It is not something they have found for themselves in a way. There is no discovery. The internet says, you know, 'The rest of your life you will find enormous boobs out there.' The question is how do you kind of reboot from that position?"

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HT: http://antipornfeminists.wordpress.com/
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