A review by emily2348
Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography by Ayala M. Pines, Susan Wilhem, Robert Brannon, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Karen Trocki, Gloria Steinem, Jas, Diana E.H. Russell, Alice Mayall, Katherine Brady, Steven Hill, John Stoltenberg, Bebe Moore Campbell, Patricia Hill Collins, Tara Baxter, Mimi H. Silbert, Van F. White, Evelina Giobbe, Charlene Y. Senn, Nikki Craft, Sharon O'Connell, Andrea Dworkin, Martin DuFresne

5.0

Need everyone to read immediately, the studies and stats in this shocked me so bad even after i have read multiple books on porn and its consequences. The last section on women getting revenge on the men behind pornographers/consumers was just beautiful i think those women are amazing. This addressed basically every consequence of pornography, prostitution and the commodification of the female body within society and i think more people should be speaking about it. Death to the porn industry and the selling of women amen!

“You can't have authentic sexual freedom without sexual justice. It is only freedom for those in power; the powerless cannot be free. Their experience of sexual freedom becomes but a delusion borne of complying with the demands of the powerful. Increased sexual freedom under male supremacy has had to mean an increased tolerance for sexual practices that are predicated on eroticized injustice between men and women: treating women's bodies or body parts as merely sexual objects or things; treating women as utterly submissive masochists who enjoy pain and humiliation and who, if they are raped, enjoy it; treating women's bodies to sexualized beating, mutilation, bondage, dismemberment. Once you have sex-ualized inequality, once it is a learned and internalized prerequisite for sexual arousal and sexual gratification, then anything goes. And thats what sexual freedom means on this side of sexual justice.”