History of Feminism

It's consumerism like a lot of consumerism, the purchaser is offered a extremely limited variety of choices. Like certain clothes made in the sweat shops of a developing nation and sold at Target or Wallmart.

When I look at what's offered in porn. It's many combinations of the same thing, not real choices at all. All political opinions aside-- it bores me.

The first thing that pisses me off when I get political, is the emphasis on youth, often claiming to be underage, (but not really-- just kidding folks. )This is looped around, I believe in the constant sexualization of young women, who are not taught anything else about being 'sexy' other than to stay virginal.

The next thing that pisses me off is the blatant racism. Pornography gets away with more racist crap than any other media. It reinforces every racial stereotype possible.

Then there's the objectification, and the degradation that seems so popular, women are posed just so, look just so, and are receivers of acts that are fetishzed more and more. In male Gay porn, I've found much the same thing-- a lot of dominance displays, a lot of youth, a lot of racism.

I have a friend who bought some art made from an erotic poem. It's a Native American couple. She straddles him on a chair, both are naked, and he is braiding her hair. It's intensely erotic, because it conveys anticipation, sexual attention, erotic touch.

What porn gives us is a dumbed done version of sex and the erotic. The back way I see see fighting back are finding those small companies that are trying for the erotic, rather than instant gratification. There are a few out here.

Oh-- and one more complaint, the orgasm. Many women take time to orgasm, in porn you'd think it's about 5 minutes or so. There are also old sexual techniques were orgasm isn't where the goal is at all, more of a building up of erotic tension and then you ride the waves of sensitized nerves, for a long time--you may or may not orgasm, but it's as deeply satisfying. This in contrast to building and release, building and release. Same old shit--I don't care how many sex toys someone owns.
Porn teaches us not to take our time, not to savor to body erotica so to speak, but to fetishize body parts.

It's a difficult question and a challenging one.