Re:Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Pornstars and Their Careers
by mistercow on Saturday February 16, 2013 @09:15AM
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>Also, isn't this 'degrading porn' meant for people who identify with the person being degraded?
It's for both. There is an entire subculture of people whose fetishes involve degradation on either side. Two important points to take from that:
1) It is silly to extrapolate to all porn from that. Those genres are targeted at relatively small demographics.
2) The fetish has nothing to do with those people's attitudes about society at large. Men who are into degrading consenting women in the bedroom are not, by and large, misogynists, for example. It's a sexual fantasy, not a political stance.
However, fetishes notwithstanding, I don't think it can be said that most mainstream porn is sex-positive or embraces healthy attitudes.
It's for both. There is an entire subculture of people whose fetishes involve degradation on either side. Two important points to take from that:
1) It is silly to extrapolate to all porn from that. Those genres are targeted at relatively small demographics.
2) The fetish has nothing to do with those people's attitudes about society at large. Men who are into degrading consenting women in the bedroom are not, by and large, misogynists, for example. It's a sexual fantasy, not a political stance.
However, fetishes notwithstanding, I don't think it can be said that most mainstream porn is sex-positive or embraces healthy attitudes.