in porn, the women's lack of human qualities often results in men's inability to see just how violent the sex act is. No matter how cruel the sex, the one question I can always count on hearing from a man after my presentation is, "Women enjoy what they are doing, so why is

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porn such a problem?" Of course, these men have no empirical evidence to support this, just their observations of the porn that they masturbate to. When I ask them if they would like to see their wives, girlfriends, or sisters in this position

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— in an attempt to humanize the performers — they are quick to respond that their loved ones are different from the ones in porn; their women would never "choose" such a job. The image men seem to have of the women in porn is of a woman accidentally stumbling onto a porn set
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one day and realizing that this is what she's been looking for all her life. That these women are acting, and may have come to porn not such much through choice but due to a lack of alternatives is rarely considered because this premise threatens to puncture the fantasy world
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created by both pornographer and the user.
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-Pornaland, Gail Dines