I Wrote A 20-something Page Literature Review And Hypothetical Research Proposal On The Effects Of Pornography

I wrote a 20-something page literature review and hypothetical research proposal on the effects of pornography related to healthy relationship views in young adults for my undergrad. Porn has definitely been proven harmful in the academic world.

I have access to several data bases from my university and it’s so funny every time you look up pornography theres not a single article about how it’s good. It’s 2020 we’ve been studying porn for decades, there’s thousands of studies on it, if you believe porn is scientifically beneficial youre dumber than a flat earther.

Hey, do you think you could post the background photo of your blog (the Venn Diagram), please? I'd love to read it in full :)

I saw that you found it already but I thought I'd post the image so other people can easily download it as well if they want 🌼 (sadly I don't know how created it, if someone knows please tell me!)

That would be an interesting concept, especially since a lot of college age kids engage in sexual activity with each other. Maybe if they made some kind of law that said college age kids can only consent to sex with people X years older than them with a new "legal adult" age of like... 22ish. I don't know exactly what the details would be. It's kind of weird that here in America we have a mentality like:

You want easy access to alcohol? Let's wait until your brain is more fully matured at the age of 21 in the hope that you will make smarter health decisions.

And as of 2019, you want easy access to cigarettes, tobacco products, and vaping products? Let's wait until your brain is more fully matured at the age of 21 in the hope that you will make smarter health decisions.

You want to sleep with any adult regardless of the age gap or potential for physical and emotional manipulation from seasoned predators as well as the risk for physical health side effects like STDs and pregnancy? Well, you're 18, I'm sure you know what you're doing.

i remember feeling so sad when i turned 18 because i felt like i wasn't protected from men anymore. like, if a crusty older guy hit on me as a teenager, i knew he was a disgusting creep preying on teenage girls and i knew i could tell someone about that. being hit on by the same guy as an 18+ would just be..legal and even normal. i felt like i became free real estate when i became legally an adult. i really wish they'd increase the age of consent.

You're definitely not alone. I pick up a good romance novel every now and again. I also like how you pointed out that it's a case by case basis as I will never condone 50 shades and the like.

I also like how you made a point that there is actually a story and relationship development. Think about how many movies have a few sex scenes without it being the focus of the whole romance film (e.g. No Strings Attached, The Notebook, etc.). I think the huge difference between romance novels and porn, is that women are not being objectified as often in romance novels because women are the ones writing them.

I am resolutely against visual porn involving real human beings, but I think that (written) erotica by women can be an incredibly powerful tool in allowing women to explore their sexuality safely without exposing themselves to a constant stream of images of beaten and battered women. The content involved in such books (i.e. unsafe kinks) should be judged on a case-by-case manner whether or not it is harmful, because there are some genuinely good stories in this genre. It’s also important to always read everything critically, and I’m not saying that erotica should be exempt from this or general criticism.

also worth noting that out of all pornography types, written erotica (by women for women) is the most scorned and ridiculed by mainstream society- the porn that widely actually involves a story and relationship development is the one that gets made fun of for being embarrassing to engage in. Shocker.

I’m not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts! 🤍🤍

Hi, here is a list of feminist texts I’ve found online. There are many important and notable readings not on this list that I’ve been unable to find working links for, and I haven’t read all of these yet. I have downloaded them all, though, so if a link breaks please let me know.

The complete works of Andrea Dworkin

“Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence and Women’s Lives” by Dee L.R. Graham, Edna I Rawlings, and Roberta K. Rigsby

“Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts and You Don’t Know Why” by Susan Forward and Joan Torres

“Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men” by Lundy Bancroft

“Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape” by Susan Brownmiller

“Gyn/Ecology” by Mary Daly

“Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde

“Only Words” by Catharine A. MacKinnon

“Sexual Politics” by Kate Millet

“The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan 

“Feminism is for Everybody” by bell hooks

“The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution” by Shulamith Firestone

“Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State” by Friedrich Engels

“The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir

“Women, Race & Class” by Angela Davis

“Women as a Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities” by Mary Beard

“The Subjection of Women” by Harriet Taylor, published under the name of a friend, John Stuart Mill

“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” by Mary Wollstonecraft

“S.C.U.M. Manifesto” by Valerie Solanas 

En Español

“Women and their Bodies” by Boston Women’s Health Collective

“Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice” by John Stoltenberg

“Liberalism and the Death of Feminism” by Catharine A. MacKinnon

“Sexology and Antifeminism” by Sheila Jeffreys

“Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution” by Evelina Giobbe

“Abortion and Pornography: The Sexual Liberals’ “Gotcha” Against Women’s Equality” by Twiss Butler

“Sexual Liberalism and Survivors of Sexual Abuse” by Valerie Heller

“The Many Faces of Backlash” by Florence Rush

“The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism“ Edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond

“Liberals, Libertarianism, and the Liberal Arts Establishment” by Susanne Kappeler

“Women and Civil Liberties” by Kathleen A. Lahey

“The New Reproductive Technologies” by Gena Corea

No matter what anyone tells you, you are never too old to eat frozen go-gurt.