Today’s pornography reinforces the most damaging elements of male socialization: that women are objects, they’re the property of men, and they have less value than men.
There’s a growing body of evidence that suggests our brains actually function better when we’re interacting with others and experiencing togetherness.
Depending on the semester, anywhere from 8 to 16 college guys living at The Abbey are in the fight against porn together. How do they do it?
The reality is, not all men take sexual pleasure in the pain, degradation, and humiliation of others. But we wouldn’t necessarily know that just by looking at the mainstream porn industry that claims to show everyone’s “fantasies,” would we?
Porn sells the toxic idea that women are always eager and ready to have sex, and that they’re very easy to arouse. How are these unrealistic fantasies shaping society’s understanding of women?
Bella had some interesting things to say about people who don’t like porn and we’d like to take this opportunity to set the record straight.
“I can’t go anywhere without visually critiquing the men I see. I look at them like products and evaluate them like I am assigning their prices.”
There are plenty of reasons why the porn industry promotes harmful messages, but would you expect capitalizing off of racism to be one of those reasons?
“When I was two years old, I was sold into human trafficking and was taught that children needed to allow grown men to use their bodies.”
Is one person’s nude image worth more than another? Does the “sexier” you are have a direct correlation to how valuable you are to society, or the impact you can make in the world?
If watching people smoke normalizes smoking, doesn’t it follow that watching scenes of sexual violence also can have a desensitizing effect?
The terms are simple: Get someone to have sex with you, write up what happened in graphic detail, then post it to a closed Facebook group.
