“What the men are doing in the world is continuing to see - to see women as objects of their p

“What the men are doing in the world is continuing to see - to see women as objects of their pleasure and their feeling of life. It is quite enough ‘behaviour’ in my opinion. What the man is doing is watching pornography, seeing, fantasizing, and he is doing this already in the world.  And he continues to view in the real, without any difference: in fact, he sees nothing at all except what he represents to himself. Under his aesthetic gaze any woman, known or unknown, turns into the 'stranger’, that object of no interest except for its capacity to stimulate the subject’s feeling of life.The fundamental problem at the root of men’s behavior in the world, including sexual assault, rape, wife battering, sexual harassment, keeping women in the home and in unequal opportunities and conditions, treating them as objects for conquest and protection - the root problem behind the reality of men’s relations with women, is the way men see women, is Seeing.“ - Susanne Kappeler, The Pornography of RepresentationI cannot recommend this book highly enough for anyone who wants to understand how porn serves to maintain male power over women, and the interaction between porn >>mind<< society.One of the major defenses of porn apologists is, "it’s fantasy, not reality." There are many studies, testimonies and articles that show the amount of violence, coercion and threat, abuse and victimization that goes on within the porn industry. These are real women, the abuse is real, and we need to make people more aware of it.That said, even if the production of the pornography is consensual and non-abusive, but portrays violence and abuse, the situation that Kappeler describes is true. The guys masturbating to the porn, whether at home or in a theater, are gaining pleasure at the thought of women being violated and hurt. That pleasure in women’s pain IS happening in the "real” world, and those people will then go out and carry these thoughts in their heads as they interact with other real people. -- source link

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