It seems to me that the people who do good porn aren't "pornstars" - it's not an occupation, but just an expression of sexuality. Some people like to be watched, some people like to film, others like to creatively express sexuality through well-made pornography (though I admit this is a rarity among pornographers). Yes, the cruelty is there against both men and women, but the cruelty towards women is more sexually-oriented, and hence more relevant to the discussion than the cruelty our culture exacts on the males (which I do not deny). As for mainstream attitudes towards sex, I think it's far more liberal than it has ever been (which is a big step forward), but it seems something is lost as well - perhaps it was never there, and I'm just suffering from a sort of delusiory nostalgia for an imagined past that serves to support my dreams of a well-adjusted society. Perhaps such a time never existed. I don't know if I'd call us healthy though... perhaps it's a healthier time than we have had for many an age, but the sexual cruelty and sex-commodification can't be discluded from the equation.
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Date: 2004-02-22 11:55 am (UTC)Yes, the cruelty is there against both men and women, but the cruelty towards women is more sexually-oriented, and hence more relevant to the discussion than the cruelty our culture exacts on the males (which I do not deny).
As for mainstream attitudes towards sex, I think it's far more liberal than it has ever been (which is a big step forward), but it seems something is lost as well - perhaps it was never there, and I'm just suffering from a sort of delusiory nostalgia for an imagined past that serves to support my dreams of a well-adjusted society. Perhaps such a time never existed.
I don't know if I'd call us healthy though...
perhaps it's a healthier time than we have had for many an age, but the sexual cruelty and sex-commodification can't be discluded from the equation.