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I have time today and I’ve been seeing a whole lot of Imran Khan apologetics parading around as pro women anti porn advocates.
So here’s a thread on why “vulgarity” pertaining to porn sadly makes for an insufficient target to blame for Pakistan’s rape crisis:
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So here’s a thread on why “vulgarity” pertaining to porn sadly makes for an insufficient target to blame for Pakistan’s rape crisis:
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Needless to say,if you’ve watched the whole 3.5 minutes,he never mentions porn or even violent/sexist porn.
There is no focus on this just “adult content”.
If you think that watching two people have consensual sex now leads men to brutalise women/children,bang your head hard.
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There is no focus on this just “adult content”.
If you think that watching two people have consensual sex now leads men to brutalise women/children,bang your head hard.
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So now to the actual topic: porn.
Immense no of Pakistani incels have courageously taken on the fight against this social evil,where on other days they’re happily dismissive against women’s appeals against rising violence.
It’s a desperate cope with IK’s actual remarks.
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Immense no of Pakistani incels have courageously taken on the fight against this social evil,where on other days they’re happily dismissive against women’s appeals against rising violence.
It’s a desperate cope with IK’s actual remarks.
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Here’s a study looking at numerous countries including USA,Croatia ,Japan,Finland since the rise and accessibility of porn in the 70s concluding that it actually corresponded with a decline in both rape and child abuse or stagnant rates.
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http://hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2010-porn.html
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http://hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2010-porn.html
“In the Czech Republic legal/easily accessible pornography became an almost overnight sensation after the sudden fall of communism in 1989. But apart from an initial spike, Diamond observed that rates of recorded rape declined steadily since the mid 1970s to 2007”
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One study on porn & sexual violence involving 300 men concluded that men who are already sexually aggressive & consume a lot of sexually aggressive pornography are more likely to commit a sexually aggressive act.
The author claimed porn wasn’t a cause but trigger
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The author claimed porn wasn’t a cause but trigger
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A meta analysis of 24 studies establishing a link between porn consumption and acceptance of rape myths found a +ve correlation only in the experimental studies and concluded there was no conclusive evidence to establish a link.
7/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170926-is-porn-harmful-the-evidence-the-myths-and-the-unknowns
7/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170926-is-porn-harmful-the-evidence-the-myths-and-the-unknowns
Interestingly one professor cites research showing 51% of college men would commit rape if they were not caught.
No fear of accountability a greater risk factor to rape than porn?
Say what??
8/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57c0876ae4b0b01630de8c93/amp
No fear of accountability a greater risk factor to rape than porn?
Say what??
8/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57c0876ae4b0b01630de8c93/amp
“In 2007, researcher Alan McKee, designed/sent out a questionnaire to determine sexist tendencies.He found that the amount of porn consumption did not dictate sexist attitudes toward women,except in the cases of politically conservative,less educated, older men...”
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Another study of 294 “porn superfans” found they were more likely than an ordinary man to disagree with traditional gender roles and more likely to agree that working mothers still made good moms.
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Yet another piece of research from 2015 showed that men who had watched porn in the last year held more egalitarian and feminist views towards women.
11/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201909/misogyny-in-porn-it-s-not-what-you-think%3famp
11/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201909/misogyny-in-porn-it-s-not-what-you-think%3famp
“A study of 295 American male and female students revealed that although consumers of pornography did not display any more negative attitudes towards women than non-consumers, they were more likely to believe that women should be protected from harm”
12/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/30/porn-relationships-sexual-aggression-research
12/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/30/porn-relationships-sexual-aggression-research
“Another systematic review conducted by Miranda Horvath and others in 2013 found that evidence to support a blanket hypothesis that pornography causes violence in adolescents was inconsistent and unsupported overall.”
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https://kar.kent.ac.uk/44763/1/BasicallyporniseverywhereReport.pdf
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https://kar.kent.ac.uk/44763/1/BasicallyporniseverywhereReport.pdf
Dr Nicole Prause states “Run-of-the-mill 'vanilla' porn does not tend to reinforce dangerous attitudes, she says, but violent porn certainly can”.
Including that people who already hold rape myths will be more influenced by similar erotica.
14/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/is-pornography-harmful/amp/
Including that people who already hold rape myths will be more influenced by similar erotica.
14/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/is-pornography-harmful/amp/
What studies do find is that “rape is more common in societies where women have less economic/political power”&”higher rape rates among the poor stem from poor men trying to prove their “masculinity” by taking out their economic frustration on women”.
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https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/11-4-violence-against-women-rape-and-pornography/
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https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/11-4-violence-against-women-rape-and-pornography/
It also claims that “Where sexual education is deficient, pornography may have greater influence, because viewers don’t understand that the sex in porn is “fantasy sex.””
Hm maybe proper sex-Ed is what we need???
16/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201909/misogyny-in-porn-it-s-not-what-you-think%3famp
Hm maybe proper sex-Ed is what we need???
16/ https://www.google.com.pk/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201909/misogyny-in-porn-it-s-not-what-you-think%3famp
Essentially want to wrap this up for now to say that yes violent gross porn should never be normalised and is detrimental but in a country where we ban essentially everything and have no sex-ed,referring to “adult content” as the main reason for rape is a cop out.
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You simply can’t stand by religious scholars promising men sex with “hoors” in the afterlife,the labelling of women as “lollipops and used cars” and scream objectification at the media.
It’s useless and hypocritical.
One is far more prevalent and powerful than the other.
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It’s useless and hypocritical.
One is far more prevalent and powerful than the other.
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To then also justify believing that women simply hiding themselves and wearing burqas is “protection” is the highest level of brain damage.
Pakistani society has sexualised young girls and women so much in the name of religion that we see her as a sexual object as default.
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Pakistani society has sexualised young girls and women so much in the name of religion that we see her as a sexual object as default.
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So yea stop weaponising narratives of female objectification when you happily practice it.
If you’re looking for actual advocacy against the exploitative and criminal nature of the porn/sex industry,follow @LailaMickelwait
@DrJessTaylor
Feminism Pakistan on FB.
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If you’re looking for actual advocacy against the exploitative and criminal nature of the porn/sex industry,follow @LailaMickelwait
@DrJessTaylor
Feminism Pakistan on FB.
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