*Women attaining voting rights, equal pay for equal work, becoming educated, etc…are very good things, for example. Porn is a manifestation of the degradation of morals in our world, by both men and women. I don’t think that back in the 1800’s, when women were treated badly by their husbands, and not permitted to vote, etc…that they were thinking of sexual exploitation as part and parcel of women’s rights. I do see what you’re saying…but, I think that ‘‘greater freedoms’’ doesn’t cross over into porn. When I think of my daughter’s rights, I don’t think of her being sexualized…that is not a right or a freedom. It’s an abuse of her feminity. The women who are often times in porn, were sexually abused as children…by men. They think they are worthless, and only ‘‘made’’ to please men in sexual ways…I think that when we look at it in that way, we can see it doesn’t ‘free’ anyone. Men or women. It is a tool of the devil to enslave men and women in sin.
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OK, just how many women were treated badly by their husbands back in the 1800’s? Back then the general tendency was for men to place women on a pedestal. Anyway, that’s just an aside…
The real issue you seem to have missed.
Germaine Greer wrote in her book, The Female Eunuch, that sexual freedom was the key to real freedom for women. That’s the role model women looked to when the women’s lib issue climbed out of the bag. Go and visit night clubs anywhere in the western world and you will see Germaine’s philosophy being practiced to the full, with great enthusiasm. Way back in the 1970’s women demanded that they be able to do this. It was a philosophy, a call to action by a woman. Then women went out and put it into practice. They went out and did it. Today it is considered normal. And like all ‘norms’ it has been stretched and stretched to now include porn. Soft porn, hard porn, whatever, but the victim is femaleness and femininity.
OK, so you don’t want to go into nightclubs and have a look. Well, just take notice of all the billboards you see as you drive along. How many products are advertised with the picture of a bikini clad girl in the ad? Hundreds. All over the place. If they aren’t in a bikini, it’s usually something pretty scant. Or if it’s not scant clothing its suggestive. Next you go to your doctors and have a chance to flick through his/her collection of old magazines, take notice of how many ads have women in them, using their sexuality to sell something. Go into a magazine store and take notice of just how many magazines use women to advertise. It’s on TV. It’s in the cinema. It is everywhere. Your kids are seeing it. Google sexualisation of young girls. Others are worrying about it.
However, your response is philosophical and reeks of duck shoving. Why do I bluntly say that? You say it’s sinful. Well, we all know that. That’s why we are here discussing the issue. But also because you respond by saying
the women who are often times in porn, were sexually abused as children…by men. You generalised and then you put the blame back on …men. Doing that is not accepting responsibility for the problem in any way shape or form. Blaming men is not regaining control over your own sexuality, your own feminity. It is simply…blaming.
My regret is that way back in the 1970’s men never had the gumption to stand up and say “No”. But that would have been seen as typical male controlling behaviour, wouldn’t it? I dare say if husbands and brothers and sons in this modern era tried to control this over-sexualisation of women they’d be seen as recidivist males too!?
So, perhaps it’s only women who can now put the cat back in the bag and reclaim some of the dignity of woman that has been and is being trashed.?
lol Okay, thank you for saying this. Message boards can cause those kinds of mishaps at times. Glad the air has been cleared…whew. 
