A thought-provoking article by Naomi Wolfe on the impact of porn on men and women:
At a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist most famous in the eighties for her conviction that opening the floodgates of pornography would lead men to see real women in sexually debased ways. If we did not limit pornography, she argued—before Internet technology made that prospect a technical impossibility—most men would come to objectify women as they objectified porn stars, and treat them accordingly. In a kind of domino theory, she predicted, rape and other kinds of sexual mayhem would surely follow.
The feminist warrior looked gentle and almost frail. The world she had, Cassandra-like, warned us about so passionately was truly here: Porn is, as David Amsden says, the “wallpaper” of our lives now. So was she right or wrong?
More here.
A follow-up essay by Naomi Wolfe, expanding on the point she made in the essay linked to this post:
Is Pornography Driving Men Crazy?
Posted by: Namit | December 04, 2011 at 07:59 PM