Off Topic Humiliated vs Empowered

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A beckup of a subreddit

Anti-porn sub done to unmask the lie that porn empowers women and to have a tough look at what the industry is doing.

 

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You can't comment under the first post, so I'll leave it here. WIth this post being an off-topic, I don't think it's against the rules. If someone wants to have a convo about these themes, they can have it under here.

Yeah, I've seen quite a few of these videos, and I find they cross the line between being disconcerting and arousing. Arousing because I have that dominating and degrading side of my sexuality that finds SOME scenes hot, but it's disconcerting because I can't see anything that is empowering about certain porn scenes, and I fail to understand what would be.

In a normal circumstance, a person covered in bodily juices and handled forcibly from one corner of a room to the other, and subjected to brutally physical treatment isn't particularly desirable.

At the same time, maybe it's my prejudice, and everyone else's. Wrestlers, boxers and MMA fighters do a highly physical and violent profession, yet no one goes around questioning their free will and independece, and what they do isn't all that different from porn, they just don't stick their cocks into one another. In both professions they can earn a lot of money primarily because they were born with a certain genetic card. Still, fighting requires skill... porn? Eh... I'm not convinced there's any particular skill involved.

I guess what makes the porn industry worse than the fighting sports industry is the presence of drugs, STIs, psychological disorders, the constant news about sexual abuse. This constant and incoherent blabber about consent that doesn't really seem to mean much of anything, because all it takes is a bad "consensual" experience and suddenly it becomes rape. I feel like people talk a lot about how they feel about sex, but when the shovel hits the dirt, it doesn't translate well to the reality of the situation at all.

What is feminist and what isn't if both look precisely the same? Some say "the ability to take control of yourself", well... wasn't it so before they slapped the "feminist" label on top of it? Does this mean that all the performers acting before a certain time period were ALL slaves, and the new ones are the only true free men and women, or are they lying?

Well, just a couple of random thoughts on the topic.