Pornography and Feminists

January 27, 2007

As we all know, most feminists (god love ‘em) are opposed to pornography.

We also know that men masturbate. It’s a fact of life and nature. Admit it boys.

Masturbation is a pleasurable built-in function of physical sexual maturity. This is related to the fact that sexual pleasure is the engine that drives the continuation of our species.

Men are also the sex of our species that are more easily sexually excited by visual stimuli.

Whether that be a hint of cleavage, or the photographic reproduction of such.

Mass-marketed pornograpy fills a niche in the economy of male sexual need. It provides fodder for fantasy, and makes masturbation enjoyable.

Feminists seem to believe, if I gather correctly, that pornography has many qualities that make existance for women difficult, if not dangerous.

Supposing this to be true, I submit that men who consider themselves bound by civilised ethics renounce pornography the moment that feminists produce an equally, or more, satisfying alternative to porn.

It would have to have the same function: Visually stimulating material to enhance mens masturbatory pleasure.

The advantages of producing such an alternative (supposing feminist crituques of porno to be true), would be manifold. The world should become measurably safer for women. The feminist producers of such materials will have am instant and hungry audience to those who they most desire to communicate.

These hypothetical producers would be able to make a lot of money, and use it enrich both their own success, and that of their favoured organisations.

And, they would powerfully prove to men an important reassuring message:

that feminists are not scared by, or subconciously fighting a war against male sexual pleasure.

I believe that many mens ideas of feminism are based on the (hopefully) irrational fear that feminism is actually engaged, conciously or otherwise, in such a war. The existance of the feminist porn alternative would be a potent reassurance against such fear. The sisterhood would declare, once and for all, that they encourage men in their ability to sexually enjoy themselves.

I’ve always seen feminism as, among other things, a form of humanism. A struggle for a better world, where everyone can enjoy their full human potential. One message in the corpus femininica is that the oppression of women is a waste of human resources that holds the whole world back. Ergo, women should encourage men in their enjoyment of their own nature.

Inevitable questions arise.

What would this alternative to porn look like?

How could it fulfill the role of porn without being porn?

If porn really does make the world a worse place for women, could this alternative make the world a safer, better place for women?