Comments on: A Look at “War on Pornography” and “Shock and Awe” Tactics

By: maymay

maymay — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:57:05 +0000

anti-porn presentations and theories, which categorically claim that porn viewing causes rape and child abuse

So, honest question: since Dr. Gail Dines clearly watches so much porn, and if we are to buy into her anti-porn ideology in which watching porn is a slippery slope towards child abuse, is she telling us that after 20 years of intense “research” about the stuff she’s watching, she isn’t a child molester or rapist? I mean, by her apparent logic, since she’s been researching porn for almost as long as I’ve been alive, her chances of being a sex offender are way higher than mine, no?

@iamcuriousblue:

An idea for another contest – best story describing what the hell is going on in the picture at the top of that page!

ROFLMAO! I bet they’re looking at porn.

By: Iamcuriousblue

Iamcuriousblue — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:16:56 +0000

Here’s the website of the owners of Pornharms.com:

http://afo.net/

An idea for another contest – best story describing what the hell is going on in the picture at the top of that page!

By: Anthony Kennerson

Anthony Kennerson — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:34:16 +0000

Actually, Violet, there is nothing there even for mainstream porn viewers either, since the “Shock and Awe” strategy of SPC and other antiporn organizations tend to gloss over the basic fact that the overwhelming majority of “mainstream” porn out there consists mostly of consenting adults engaging in either masturbation or mostly “vanilla” sex. They only use the most shocking, most “violent”, most “degrading” and most “extreme” images as a bait to grab people’s attention, then switch them to their genuine ideology which opposes even consensual non-degrading porn (even Playboy pictorals or nudes) as innately “degrading” and a “gateway” to the supposedly worse stuff out there.

Plus, it’s mostly a means of attacking what they consider “deviant” sexual practices that are definitely consensual, but don’t meet their restrictive standards of what they consider to be proper sexual behavior.

I’m not necessarily a Penn and Teller fan, but on this case they were right on point.

Anthony

By: Victor Riley

Victor Riley — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:33:55 +0000

That was one of my favorite P&T episodes. For one, it had nudity. Second, it so thoroughly exposes these fools for the ignorant morons they are. Third… it had nudity. (Yes, I realize one and three are the same reason… but I thought it was so good, it was worth mentioning twice.)