Women being anti pornography is completely emotional and not thought through

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You often see it in female spaces: the porn crusader. She'll explain how porn is misogyny, how it degrades women and will often have a bunch of facts at her disposal to prove her point. All of her points and facts more sensational than the previous.
  • "The most searched terms on porn websites are teen, stepdaughter and forced - men are consuming this!"
  • Porn degrades women! The more it degrades the more men love it
  • Porn is sex trafficking & prostitution
  • Porn is more extreme than ever before!

Luckily Porn Hub dumps all of it's data annualy which tells you what is actually happening with our porn consumption and the facts are a little different to what anti-porn activists would have you believe.

Myth 1 - The most searched terms are teen, stepdaughter and forced

Porn Hub completely disagrees and their top three searched terms are Hentai, Milf and Pinay. For those who don't know pinay are a filipina lady. Pinay has entered the top 3, before that it was lesbian with Hentai and Milf always up there. So, in actuality, it's the other end of the spectrum with MILF dominating rather than teen or stepdaughter.

Myth 2 - Porn degrades women

It's hard to see where this comes from, outside of a purtanical shame around sexuality. Certainly the uncontacted tribe The Sentinelese are well known for a fairly high energy sex life and so we can see these behaviours actively being participated in by women.

The biggest counter to this though is that gay porn, which only includes men, can't be degrading to women and therefore it's not true to say Porn degrades women. Some porn does, some people have that as a sexual taste. BDSM can have a female dom, or a male dom. Really this myth is about some forms of pornography not being to the claimants taste.

Also women are the fastest growing consumers of porn and outside of the western world the visitors are 50/50 male and female (Columbia, Fillipines)

Myth 3 - Porn is sex trafficking & prostitution

It is odd how this is pulled out as a reason to ban pornography. Human slavery is wrong and we should fight it, in all of it's forms. Whether that's trafficked workers in nail bars, cafes or any other industries. Most main stream porn production, i.e. the vast majority, is produced in a highly regulated enviroment. The largest producer, Canadian Aylo, is actually backed by a private equity firm "Ethical Capital Partners". It's content is rigerously policed because hints of anything illegal will collapse their entire business faster than anything else. They even mention it on their home page that safety is their number one concern.

In the past PornHub purged thousands of videos because they could not be verified as safe and coming from a trusted partner.

Myth 4 - Porn is more extreme than ever

Tastes change, what people like to watch changes. However anything that is on a mainstream pornography site sits within a legal framework which is decided upon by elected represents whom the public decides.

Research into this does actually debunk the myth finding that people who consume porn actually became less extreme in their tastes over time. So, in an ironic twist, more pornography actually decreases more extreme watching.

Conclusions

It's hard not to see this as something else entirely than standing up for poor, downtrodden sisters who have internalised misogyny. Why do some people dislike porn ? Well, it's like any human activity, some people some like it, some hate it. I myself can't stand watching cricket but I'd never want to stop anyone else enjoying that activity. The difference here is people offended by porn want EVERYONE else to stop watching it. It's about pushing their agenda on others.

It feels, from reading female spaces (which seem to be the ones largely with a problem with porn) it's a mixture of being a prude, being disinterested in sex, being insecure and perhaps trying to have some control over men. For example if he can get sexual gratification from somewhere else then does that devalue me to him ? I guess this is another form of insecurity.

One thing it is not is sex traficked, prostition which is violent and extreme. Of course, some dark areas that exists, just as horror video nasties existed. 

Hence the myths around porn, from female spaces, is just hysteria, a moral panic and really those ladies would be better off finding a loving partner and enjoying a good, healthy, sex life with them. It'd probably make them less uptight!

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