Most of the porn on the net I have seen has the same formula - it a power thing. The women are called really horrible names, the tone school boyish, it an expression of male sexuality..
So here the thing - does porn change the way men view normal women? Do men just see women in porn scene terms?
It seems lots of women want to do it - but if power can be defined as something a person does (even if they CHOOSE to) that they would not otherwise have done.. then would they have chosen to do had they not grown up in a culture which was overtly sexual, patriarchal and one in which women want to please men?
Women in a bar want to be the alpha female - that means the one that is prettiest or that has most male attention.. hence why ya hear the old 'I would rather work with men..women are too bitchy' comment over and over
It seems though that slide of hand has meant women arent chained to the kitchen sink any more but the bathroom one instead..all to attain and retain a man
2006-07-25 11:14:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
You're right in assuming that since social norms have evolved, social chemistry must evolve with them.
Pornography is not an essential part of the struggle. Most pornographic materials are made, indelibly so, to appeal to the male mind. Finding pornography that caters specifically to a female audience would be as difficult as finding a phone sex line that caters to a female audience -- sex is a male-dominated industry.
It depends entirely on the preconceived notions of what's going into it. A sociopathic mind might take pornography and use it as evidence to why all women are whores and sluts, why men are superior, etc. Misogyny is not something someone learns from a videocasette.
2006-07-25 12:18:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
I don't think so, its a lifestyle choice and its not as though there not getting paid. Pimping women on the streets however is different, thats not a choice for some women, just an answer, and that is degrading and inhumane!!
I think that any place where there is not equal gender opportunities is degrading to either gender, and that is wrong... the stereotypical women in the home and men at work scenario is almoset role reversed in some households, but I think men and women should be treated equally!!
What is wrong and degrading towards women is the whole partriarchal society c**p... that is not equal, and it should be, after all with new technologies coming about, it should be women that would be taking over the world as men are no longer needed what with artificial s***m etc, could be argued that that is degrading to men??
2006-07-25 12:29:01 · answer #2 · answered by Im_Liverpool_Til_I_Die!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The women I know who have worked as strippers or nude models are far more in control of their lives than some other women. Case in point: three women I know who think that pornography is the most degrading thing int he world are all living on welfare and have children that they can't support without their child support payments - form men they don't live with and are often VERY abusive (I've seen the black eyes and busted lips).
Meanwhile the strippers I've known control their own money - one owes her home outright without any payments due after FIVE years and another paid for college without taking out loans and is now getting her DOCTORATE in advanced mathematics.
The sites you refer to are predatory sites that get young women who don't know better to do "one shot" pictorials for cr@ppy money and tell them they will be a rich porn star.
Anything someone does that doesn't degrade that person, fine. If it promotes putting anyone in the light of being a second class - it's wrong. But if they are professional and they control their own careers I say more power to them!
2006-07-25 11:23:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is degrading to women,it allows men to think of women as stupid,obedient,sexual servants,there purely for their gratification.This image trickles out into society and effects the way men think about women and women think about themselves.
Women feel that they have to compete for the attention of the male and they feel that they have to be there for his pleasure and if they are all the things he wants then he will stay with them,be faithful to them etc etc Wrong !!
Men basically want sex from a woman,any woman they choose without emotional attachment !
2006-07-25 21:51:08 · answer #4 · answered by any 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and No. Some is degrading to women, some to men, some to animals, some to vegetables, some to random objects. Only femi-nazi choose to focus on such issues.
2006-07-25 11:19:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,some of the porographic images of women on the internet is degrading so i totally agree with you..
I hope your not expecting a positive response from the men that answer this question because they will say no for obvious reasons.. lol
2006-07-25 14:53:52 · answer #6 · answered by maidenrocks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not only to the women who are probably willing participants
but more so to those who view it and society at large.
there used to be a time way back in the eighties when you didn't
even use foul language around strangers or mixed company.
2006-07-25 11:26:48 · answer #7 · answered by tokyocowboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think it changes mens views - only of course if you are a normal man who realises internet porn isnt real and is created for the purpose of entertainment.
2006-07-25 11:20:25 · answer #8 · answered by rb_2k1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES. the ones who do these things already feel bad
about themselves, and keeping on with this course
makes it worse.
2006-07-25 11:20:29 · answer #9 · answered by agedlioness 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if they don't get paid the going rate. As for doing it to please men think again. They do it cos they love it or for the money.
2006-07-25 11:58:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋