Reply #25: Thanks, SHCrane71 for your thoughtful topic

[Mimosa]

I worked for womens and gay rights back in the late 1960s (I was then a teenager) through the 1970's. It was a fascinating tumultuous time.

Porn degrades women. I feel the young women of today have advanced 2 steps forward because of the gains made by feminism and resultant policy changes in the US. I remember when rape and domestic abuse were't reported because of shame and the blame the victim mentality. I grew up hearing of deaths and injuries from illegal, sometimes DIY, abortions.

We've come a couple of steps forward but there are more than a few who would drag us back.

Most of us can discern between art and hard core pornography. The objectification and debasement of women in our culture has set back the clock, just a bit. It is coarsening to men. Pornography today is worse and more available now than it was before the computer revolution.