File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 1199


Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:03:09 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: M-TH: Re: Porn


Malgosia wrote:
>The way I read it, he means that when you get off on porn, your use of the
>person whose image it is is not something that is a mutually consensual
>sex act.
>The making of the image might have been consensual, but not the individual
>sex
>acts that the image is used for.  Me, I think there is much to that.

But the problem is that one can also get off on words, images, etc. that
are not made + marketed as "pornography." One can even get off on
non-commodified & non-sexual words, images, etc. Why is it more of a
problem when one gets off on "pornography" and not other genres of words,
images, etc? For instance, don't movie stars get into our popular memory in
part through their ability to let us fantasize about them, sexually and
otherwise?

Yoshie




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