Porn As A Form Of Violence Against Women

Porn as a form of violence against women

Paulina Sepúlveda Garrido, in the article “Is porn a form of violence against women?"Talk about the Erotic Salon of Barcelona of 2018 in which a video that caused a lot of controversy was launched and that made sociologists, actresses and psychologists.

Actress Silvia Rubí defended that the only class of sexual education that children receive is the most macho porn. Therefore and while continuing like this, "we will continue manufacturing rapists in pack and accumulating minutes in silence". The sociologist Camila Mella also positioned himself against porn, since this "is related to violence against women because it legitimizes violence towards them, which is why it is not just about fantasy, but about cultural violence". Similarly, the psychologist Guila Sosman said that pornography is a mode of sexist violence because "creates and perpetuates certain stereotypes of the division of sexual roles of men and women", in which women have a passive and object rolesexual available to male desires. Sosman also adds that “a sample of this is that if the woman has some clothing (neckline, mini skirt, etc.) would necessarily imply that the woman wants to have sex or that she is inciting that this occurs. Something similar would happen to the idea that it is allowed to have sex with a woman who has consumed alcohol, because if she is in that state she is "looking" for some man to address her to have sex ".

As we know, the porn industry is mostly directed by men, both in the management and production and consumption area. In the same way that, in the content, a male domination and a female subordination can be seen. That is why, as Mella explains, the consent of women is in the background, “because through pornography men and women have learned that, which can imply that justify and normalize sexually violent behaviors, as isthe violation ".

And, although we have seen three cases in which women are against pornography, we can also see the opposite. Loola Pérez, social and sexologist integrative, laughed last February 2020. Towards a new paradigm on the equality of sexes ”, which supports the feminist movement while questioning it.

Pérez, in an interview offered for the Spanish, declares itself, defending that pornography “allows the exploration of women’s sexuality in a safe way, allows us to differentiate what the fantasy of desire is: fantasy is inYour head but desire goes to what you already want to do;There are fantasies that one does not want to take to the real plane ”. In addition, he argues that porn increases creativity within couples, which dates the curiosity of women and that, above all, "it represents women from something that has always been denied them, which is their explicit sexual power". 

Regarding the humiliating contents for women that we can find in pornography, Pérez believes that we must create a more aware industry of women’s wishes, since “one day it can feel like they call you a whore, but tomorrow you want me tocall princess ". Regarding the change within the industry over the years, Pérez has advocated that “the plurality of bodies that are currently in porn is interesting. We have gone from this porn of the very pneumatic years to an increasingly amateur porn, of less natural girls: older bodies, younger, thinner, thicker, thicker, etc. There has been a democratization of bodies ".