The Anti Feminist Liberal

I recently sat through Gail Dines talking, on you tube, for about 40 minutes about the damage porn does . I was expecting a challenging, thought provoking critique of pornography and so I sat and watched, opened minded.  Gail Dines has been described as a “Radical Feminist” and the world’s largest anti porn crusader. What I actually sat through was less science and more propaganda. Dines appears to be a Mary Whitehouse’esque prude who has some sort of shame based problem to pornography. When you read her history she was born into an orthodox Jewish family and it would appear this deeply religious, Conservative, upbringing is filtering her thoughts here. She speak eloquently about pornography use and her reasoning is cleverly presented but unfortunately 100% incorrect and easily debunked. One point she makes is that once you start watching pornography you need more and more extreme versions in order to continue your enjoyment, this is called the content progression thesis . She say...

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 ...