#porn culture
Here’s a powerful testimonial from a young woman who was just one of many teen victims of pornographic extortion — by a very sick man who ruined many girls’ lives.
- Chansler told detectives he targeted children because adult women were “too smart” to fall for his scheme. Investigators found thousands of videos and photos on his computers, including recordings of girls crying and pleading with him to stop and one girl holding a handwritten sign with a single word: “rape.” […]
For victims, she said, “it’s psychologically damaging. It’s not fair. People think victims of child pornography are not touched. It’s not like rape. It’s just overlooked. … They don’t realize what we’re doing when we have to send those pictures. We’re doing it ourselves. We’re forced to. … We could not say no.”
Reynolds said the people who look at the pictures “are dads and brothers and sons.” She wants to tell them, “This could be your sister.”
They are creating the demand, the marketplace that is being catered to by the child pornography producers and extortionists.
“You’re contributing to it. You can’t be a law-abiding citizen if you’re contributing to extortion,” Reynolds said. “People send out those pictures and make them public because of people who view them.”
EXACTLY! ~ READ THE FULL HEARTBREAKING STORY:
http://tbo.com/news/crime/victim-viewing-child-porn-isnt-harmless-20141123/
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Porn exposure can be VERY harmful to children, as this tragic story of a teen boy almost driven to SUICIDE shows.
~ Lei Chung, 16, from China, had to share a bedroom with his parents
~ Says his father would watch pornographic films every night
~ Even if he covered his eyes, he could still hear the sound from the TV
~ The images have haunted him ever since and he tried to commit suicide
~ Has now been diagnosed a ‘new’ form of post-traumatic stress disorder
~ Chinese doctors have termed it ‘PORN TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER’
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Wow. We feel very badly for this young man, and for all of the many children and others globally who also suffer from ‘porn traumatic stress disorder.’
We can say from personal experience that this condition is very real, and can affect adults as well, especially women, as a result of being exposed to the extreme violence, cruelty and misogyny in pornography.
We urge parents to do everything they can to keep pornography away from their children, and we urge all women and everyone else to also avoid pornography as much as possible, and to speak out against it instead.
READ THE FULL STORY:
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On our Facebook post about this issue, Cynthia Shaver wrote: “As a professional counselor, I can attest to this. I currently have two teenage female clients who show these symptoms.” (11/10/14)
~ So, has anyone else ever experienced PORN-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or know anyone who has? Please speak up if you have. Thanks!
~ For parents wanting to learn more about pornography’s harms to children, and how to protect them, we recommend checking out and supporting Enough Is Enough and Pornproof Kids
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It’s encouraging that the links between pornography and domestic violence are getting some much deserved exposure, with some helpful solutions being proposed!
- [SMH.com] — The Men’s Referral Service manager Nathan DeGuara said there was a strong correlation between pornography and domestic violence.
“Pornography sets up the expectations of what a man should expect from a woman. Pornography is typically about men doing whatever is it is they want to do to women.”
He said the service, which offered confidential telephone counselling for men with violent urges, often received calls about domestic violence stemming form unrealistic sexual expectations.
And these were often created by pornography.
READ THE REST OF THIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE AT THE LINK BELOW: (And please don’t forget to like, comment and share to spread the word and support the cause. Thanks!)
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Pornhub’s 2014 stats are in and unsurprisingly the news is not good. “Teen” remains the top search term globally. ~~
Other “lowlights” include:
1) Pornhub got 78.9 billion views in 2014, up from 63.2 billion in 2013.
2) 45% of Pornhub’s 2014 traffic came from mobile phones, compared to 44% from desktop computers, and 11% from tablets.
3) The top 20 2014 porn search terms also include “babysitter” (equivalent to “teen” in most cases), and the incest-focused terms “step mom” and “step sister.”
Ouch! :-(
If you’re up to learning more disturbing facts about the porn-watching habits of hundreds of millions of people around the world, (mostly men), many of whom are apparently watching porn in public spaces around all of us on phones and tablets (and likely laptops), check out the full article below.
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For the record, the “lesbian” porn that is being increasingly searched for and watched is not actually pornography made of real lesbians. Read the below article by our volunteer, ex porn performer Vanessa Belmond to learn more.
http://www.antipornography.org/my-story-of-lesbian-porn-harms-and-why-its-fake.html
Also it is just as harmful to the performers and others.
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To be clear, “lesbian” pornography is almost always two straight women pretending to have “lesbian sex” for the viewing pleasure of men, in a way that matches the delusional fantasies of men. It is just as problematic and sexist as heterosexual pornography. More info on this topic is at our page on it here:
http://www.antipornography.org/lesbian_porn_harms.html
If anyone knows of any other good references on this topic, please let us know, so we can add them to this page. Thanks!
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One other point to consider, regarding both “lesbian” and gay male pornography…
- “Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.” ~~ Gloria Steinem
Exactly! For more excellent quotes about the harms of pornography by Gloria Steinem, please check out the below page at our website:
http://www.antipornography.org/Gloria_Steinem_anti_porn_quotes.html
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Something CAN be done to counter this global catastrophe that is fueling epidemic sex trafficking and violence against women and children, but only if enough people step up to educate others and to fight pornography, or at least support the few hard-working anti-porn organizations we have by donating and volunteering.
Combating the global harms of pornography and sexual exploitation is a HUGE job, as clearly we’re up against many MILLIONS of people who support them. So we need an equally large army of people who are willing to work just as hard to eliminate pornography and sex trade use and harms as the number of people who use, support and profit from them. So please do your part. Your efforts and support are needed!
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i was debating doing a longer post on this, and even though i don’t think i will, folks should read this https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibilities/introduction.htm
a few interesting points:
it became considered a crime because it was considered a sin, and they were considered one and the same.
in the uk, pia had to be engaged in until ejaculation to be considered sodomy.
there was a big upswing in criminalizing sodomy, and expanding the definition of sodomy, especially in the 20th century. all us states criminalized it by 1960. the 70s (largely thanks to the gay liberation movement) saw many states decriminalize it, but it remained illegal in about half of the states until 2003 with the Lawrencedecision! (i actually remember this case in the news, when i was in high school, and i read how even at least unmarried heterosexual sodomy eg oral sex was typically still illegal then.) noteworthy too is that the vast majority of criminal cases were about oral sex, not pia. now, people hear sodomy and think pia only, that sodomy is synonymous with pia, but it actually was usually fellatio. and it shows that fellatio plays a far greater role in 20th century sex between men than pia does, contrary to how porn has reshaped and portrays male-male sex.
(this also coincides with the homophile movement of the 40s-mid 60s and gay liberation movement of the late 60s-70s. the sex that was had was mostly oral, manual, frottage, outercourse… there was not a lot of pia. it was generally an occasional thing with a special guy, and about 1 in 4 didn’t have pia at all. indeed, top/bottom, now seen as integral to gay/bi male identity, is a product of bdsm and porn. in most of the 20th century, top/bottom was in the bdsm world, not something specific to male-male sex. for example, the hite report on male sexuality’s mention of top/bottom is limited to bdsm, not male-male sex generally.)
In 1900, statutory wording of sodomy laws permitted, or apparently permitted, prosecutions for fellatio in 13 states and ten of those had changed their laws to permit such an interpretation since 1880. In no court before 1900 had fellatio been found to be “sodomy.” By 1920, the number of changes to sodomy laws to permit prosecution of fellatio doubled to 24, and 11 states had court decisions that the term “crime against nature” or “sodomy,” standing alone, covered acts of fellatio.
Today, and for several decades, fellatio is mentioned far more commonly in reported sodomy cases than is anal intercourse…
heterosexual sodomy (which increasingly included oral sex and some other sex acts) was often considered worse than homosexual because couples could have piv only (seen as the only natural, proper sex act), had “unnatural” (hahaha) sex in addition to, or even worse, without piv. only piv was acceptable because it was potentially reproductive and the most effective at reproduction eg penis-vulva had some pregnancy risk, but far lower than piv so even that didn’t cut it as proper sex (it also inherently provided a lot of stimulation of the vulva and clitoris, unlike piv). (bestiality/human sexual abuse of animals was also considered sodomy because it wasn’t potentially reproductive.) a man enaging in sodomy with a woman
seems worse that than [sic] of a Man or a Beast; for it seems a more direct Affront to the Author of Nature, and a more insolent expression of Contempt of his Wisdom, condemning the Provision made by him, and defying both it and him.
sometimes oral sex on men was criminalized while oral sex on women wasn’t, due to male judges, politicians, etc not being able to see non-piv/pia sex as sex, seeing the penis as still defining sex when other acts come close (the clitoris/vulva counts for less than nothing under a patriarchal definition of sex), men being more likely to engage in public or semi-public sex together then women are, frankly men being more behaviorally bisexual than women are (contrary to what most men want you to think), and being mighty fearful of male bi- and homosexuality. (so even if fellatio wasn’t real sex, it was realer than anything a man or woman could do with a vulva/clitoris.) male homosexual acts were also punished more harshly, even with death, whereas women got public humiliation, flogging, even being found not guilty because “the crime here alleged has no existence” (vulva-centric sex and sex between women don’t exist). sometimes, acts between men and women were illegal while between women they were legal (not recognized at all), because the penis defined sodomy, even in hetero cunnilingus. indeed, heterosexual cunnilingus was first prosecuted 25 years before lesbian cunnilingus was. marriage protecting on from sodomy charges/conviction is relatively new, starting in the 1960s, and not in all states (eg some states even continued prosecuting married couples in the 60s-70s, even through to the 90s). but some states even exempted unmarried hetero couplings from sodomy law
In 1935, the Oklahoma Supreme Court became the first in the nation to rule that cunnilingus was a “crime against nature.” The Court gave absolutely no analysis for its conclusion. What was “unknown” to women in 1921 became dangerous knowledge by 1935 that had to be outlawed. Courts in Florida, Alabama, and Maine followed Oklahoma’s lead in the next 15 years. Before widespread public knowledge of Lesbianism, cunnilingus never was considered a species of the “crime against nature.” After that knowledge was spread, it became consensus that cunnilingus was included in that historically narrower term.
masturbation sometimes even was seen as sodomy (indeed, even “encouraging” masturbation could be criminalized as sodomy, as i read in kinsey). mutual masturbation, usually broadly defined, would also be seen as sodomy (often manual, but also other manipulation of genitals).
Other states, such as Maryland and Oregon, used broadly worded sodomy laws that covered undefined terms such as “perverted practices” or “sexual perversity.” Under this wording, Oregon courts held both mutual masturbation and urination to be coverable. Michigan opted for the term “gross indecency,” which the state’s courts interpreted to include manipulation of another’s genitals.
the united states didn’t include some forms of sex as sodomy that other nations did (eg the link on sodomy in germany i gave earlier) eg thigh frottage, vulva-vulva contact, but they could still be considered unnatural, abnormal, perverted, gross indecency, etc.
other sections are interesting too eg how it was regarded as mental illness and punished with sterilization, institutionalization in hospitals and prisons, etc but this is getting too long.
