"Porn culture doesn't only affect men. It also changes "the way women and girls think about their bodies, their sexuality and their relationships," says Dines...The more porn images filter into mainstream culture, the more girls and women are stripped of full human status and reduced to sex objects. This has a terrible effect on girls' sexual identity because it robs them of their own sexual desire."
In this article by Julie
Bindel, she exposes anti-pornography activist Gail Dines. Gail makes the
argument that the pornography industry has an extremely negative effect on
girls and the way they see themselves in sexual and non-sexual circumstances. Easy accessibility to pornography allows boys, girls, men
and women at any age to access it and watch it. Generations of boys and men are
being introduced to violent pornography at young ages, which has a profound
influence on how they learn about sexual encounters, about how to treat a
women’s body and it also shows young women how they should expect their bodies
to be treated. Pornography and the violence depicted in it objectify the
women’s body. Although pornography is seemingly a fantasy world, the violence
shown in these films is real and the women who perform in these films feel the
pain and abuse towards their bodies. Through Dines’ research, she found that
the most repeated acts in internet pornography were oral and anal penetration
by three or more men at the same time; double anal; double vaginal; a female gagging
from having a penis thrust into her throat; and ejaculation in a woman's face,
eyes and mouth, all of which are extremely dangerous and unhealthy for the
body. These films teach men and women how to interact with each other during
their sexual encounters. Not only are men desensitized to the violence and cruelty in these films, but women are also desensitized because pornography is
so intertwined in our mainstream media.
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