Cindy Gallop delivers a frank and shockingly honest dialogue about the artificiality of intimacy in our lives due to the effects of hard-core pornography. There's a lot of discussion in feminist circles about pornography, how good or bad it is for us, how healthy it is or isn't to view, mimic, play into or the like. Personally, I feel that it's probably as true that pornography has affected our ability to be genuine and intimate in that capacity as it is true that the Hollywood-movie romance ideal has affected our ability to have unrealistic expectations about prince charming, unrequited love, or generally being in a happily ever after white picket fence romance. Media definitely affects us, whether we give in to it or not, the people around us most likely are affected, pushing those expectations upon their relationships. Porn is a form of media, for sure...widely available, highly fetishized, and completely male dominated/male-targeted and centered. She does directly state that makelovenotporn isn't about being anti-porn, but just about being open to other forms of it, not just centered around the myths and fairy-tales that happen in the typical porn dialogue (where women all look perfect, have orgasms in any position, often find themselves, love any kind of sex, and are often reduced to only being shown as a body part versus a whole person). I found it interesting and wanted to know if you all had any resources to add to the story. I loved her comments on founding the website to open a dialogue that "facilitate[s] open, healthy and better sexual relationships."Monday, January 10, 2011
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Debunking the Porno Fairy-Tale Myth
Cindy Gallop delivers a frank and shockingly honest dialogue about the artificiality of intimacy in our lives due to the effects of hard-core pornography. There's a lot of discussion in feminist circles about pornography, how good or bad it is for us, how healthy it is or isn't to view, mimic, play into or the like. Personally, I feel that it's probably as true that pornography has affected our ability to be genuine and intimate in that capacity as it is true that the Hollywood-movie romance ideal has affected our ability to have unrealistic expectations about prince charming, unrequited love, or generally being in a happily ever after white picket fence romance. Media definitely affects us, whether we give in to it or not, the people around us most likely are affected, pushing those expectations upon their relationships. Porn is a form of media, for sure...widely available, highly fetishized, and completely male dominated/male-targeted and centered. She does directly state that makelovenotporn isn't about being anti-porn, but just about being open to other forms of it, not just centered around the myths and fairy-tales that happen in the typical porn dialogue (where women all look perfect, have orgasms in any position, often find themselves, love any kind of sex, and are often reduced to only being shown as a body part versus a whole person). I found it interesting and wanted to know if you all had any resources to add to the story. I loved her comments on founding the website to open a dialogue that "facilitate[s] open, healthy and better sexual relationships."
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