I read an article not too long ago about how the "porn" culture of today is affecting young peoples' sexual behaviour. More and more, it seems, young women will readily perform oral sex without expecting oral in return from their partners. Why? Because it's not expected in porn.

Sure, pornography can be degrading, even evil, but it can also help marriages, help sexual self esteem and even curb crime like rape.

from the pornos i've watched, i think the majorioty of these movies are made for men, by men, to help men get off.

hmmm. any ORGers want to start a women-oriented porno company? where the scenes involve a lot of cuddling on the sofa during the movie, followed by ots of nice, slow touching, a relaxed transition to the bed or the kitchen table, and twenty minutes of how do you want it darling???

There is a woman's porn company already.

Ya, and it totally sucks - as in horrible.

Degrading to women?

The only thing degrading about straight mainstream porn is that these women have to fuck such ugly men.

They should really do porn where gay porn stars fuck women. (if they don't already). That shit would sell like hotcakes.

BUT THEN...

They wouldn't be gay would they?

And I understand that but most of the women I watch in porn do it of their own volition.

Gay men have been having sex with straight women in real life for centuries so they could do it in porn too.

NO DOUBT

But if these men are having sex with women they're not exactly gay are they.

They'd be doing it for pay, not because they really like it.

I'd dispute that gorgeous porn women thing, but there's no mistake there's something weird going on with central casting at the porn studios when it coems to the male stars. Half have beer guts, and the half that don't are old.

The only attractive male porn stars are doing gay porn. Go figure.

Porn, in and of itself, is not sexist or degrading toward women. But it too easily can be, and I've seen a lot of it that crosses the line.

There is also the issue of heterosexual porn so rarely being focused on the woman's/women's pleasure. I know the market is largely men, but honestly. He gets 10 minutes of knob slobbing, and she gets a nipple tweak? Something's off balance here.

by "noam chomsky downs pornography", does this mean he "downs" it the way a farmboy "downs" a glass jug of fresh milk? if so, then OM NOAM NOAM to him!

Sooooo not true !

that is what the thread title sounds like.

I used to work in a porn shop. I've seen quite a lot of porn. Do you have a secret stash somewhere of straight porn with men that aren't disgusting?

"downing" something is maybe not the best terminology to use with regards to pornography. call me a prude!

true. for a minute there i thought this thread was about Noam Chomsky becoming a porn star. I wouldn't want to imagine the "Chomsky Slap".

true. for a minute there i thought this thread was about Noam Chomsky becoming a porn star. I wouldn't want to imagine the "Chomsky Slap".

ewww, that sounds like something you'd get in a deli. "chomsky slap on a hoagie (with pickle spear)"

yuck. like a nasty gross deli where the bags of chips have dust on them.

I was going to post this on the politics forum, but since this is about porn and what Chomsky thought about it. Noam Chomsky, by the way is the major left intellectual in the world. Here, I disagree slightly with his critique. Sure, pornography can be degrading, even evil, but it can also help marriages, help sexual self esteem and even curb crime like rape.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...NlRoaFTHuE

it CAN help but it can also foster a lot of misconceptions. for example, 1) sex takes under four minutes;