Comments for Media reform should include critique of sexual-exploitation media at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:36:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/698-media-reform-should-include-critique-of-sexual-exploitation-media.html#comment-698 I never heard anyone bring this conference up at the Media Reform one, but there was a lot going on and 3500 people. I would consider going but the website doesn't list anything about housing and host families to cut down on expenses since people from out of state already have the flight, transportation and other costs to deal with. It is was intended to be a national thing rather than a local one, maybe market it that way and have some of those things in place? The website gave me the impression is was more of a local program. - a guest Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:39:42 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/698-media-reform-should-include-critique-of-sexual-exploitation-media.html#comment-696 As far as "Censorship", my answer to that is a simple "yes". I believe in it, and so did our founders or there would never have been the "prurient interests" as part of the legal discussion and there would never be any laws about anything, period. We censor behavior and speech all the time…it is about the intended purpose. For example, yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre. It is about the bigger impact on society that is the real issue. Anyone who “says” they do not believe in censorship is lying because you can examine some aspect of their lives and belief systems and you will always find some form of censorship they support…realizing it or not. The reason the anti-porno movement gets so much [b]resistance[/b] is because we have increasingly become a culture that [b]associates sex with violence and dominance[/b]. This lack of a healthy perspective on sex makes it incomprehensible to the vast majority of people that anyone would support healthy, fun, intimate and pleasurable sex--which is the complete opposite of pornography, and adamantly oppose pornography which does not depict healthy pleasure but domination and violence. What is the value of pornography to our society? And why is it called “adult” entertainment? What is “adult” about degregation and dominance over another creature? It is completely unevolved and there is nothing adult or mature about it. Frankly, the 1st Amendment protections of speech were designed for political and religious freedom -- yet as we have increasingly seen those rights stripped away while hearing very little outrage from the American citizens-- the pornography industry and pro-porno activists have used that Amendment to further their oppression. It was never designed for that, and it makes me deeply ashamed and disheartened at what has become of our culture that we put more effort into the rights of those that advocate and promote sexual oppression, violence, and misogyny than we do the rights of a jailed reporter. - a guest Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:26:14 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/698-media-reform-should-include-critique-of-sexual-exploitation-media.html#comment-695 Why was everyone so offended by the photos of Abu Ghraib? Seriously, was it only because the victims were male? Is that the same reason the Catholic Church scandal got so much attention? You didn’t even hear of the girls priests have been raping for centuries. There was nothing depicted in Abu Ghraib that is not seen on a daily basis in mainstream porn that is spammed all over the Internet. Frankly, much worse is seen in porno. I am not saying the torture wasn’t horrible. But much worse torture is happening every day in this country and we have a whole industry around it. Our reaction? We laugh at the litany of jokes Jay Leno makes on his show as if porno was someone the truth and if you are appalled by the horror of the abomination of this perversion of human sexuality, than there is something wrong with YOU and not the oppressor. It reminds me of when I hear people bashing gay men and making “jokes” about “I wonder who is the women” as if the one being penetrated is someone the one being violated, which says something more about the unhealthy views of most people about their own sexuality (penetration and sex equates to violence, and the man is the violator the woman the violated) than it does about anything dealing with homosexuality. - a guest Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:22:00 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/698-media-reform-should-include-critique-of-sexual-exploitation-media.html#comment-694 Thank you, Robert, for writing about this. I have to say, it is one thing that angers and depresses me more than any other in the “so-called” progressive movement. I was at the conference too, and was very thankful for what Geena Davis and Jane Fonda discussed. The proliferation of porno, and increasingly violent and misogynistic porno, is directly linked to the upsurge in violence against women (and sexual violence against children). While they did not mention porno specifically, at least we got some degree of a female perspective (although disappointingly, the website’s blog only lists male speakers). I really cannot understand how anyone can consider himself or herself a “progressive” and support the pornography industry. There was a reason it was illegal for so long, and a reason since it’s legalization that sexual violence against women and children is now an epidemic. It is inherently wrong, and every man and woman knows this. Trying to discuss this in intellectual terms will never get us anywhere because it is like trying to argue a woman has a right to her own body. It is about manipulation that the oppressors use against the oppressed. And women are a very, very big part of the problem because they are too afraid and too deficient in self-esteem to speak up against the abomination that it is for fear of somehow offending the very sickos that use this to oppress them. There is nothing sexy about domination and degregation of another human being. Interestingly that we don’t see animals acting out this way, and yet we refer to someone who acts in a the most atrocious ways as an “animal”. I would argue animals are much more evolved because they engage in healthy sexuality whereas humans manifest their psychological dysfunction in the sexual arena more than in any other area. We need to start focusing on the abusers and WHY they feel the need to dominate and degrade (what is so weak and helpless in them that they feel a constant need for power over another) and stop focusing on this from the perspective and the voiceless victim and whether she/he IS victim or not. We have to work from absolute truth, we know inherently. - a guest Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:20:49 +0100