Absolutely fantastic argument. I think evangelicals who believe a wife is subservient and submissive to her husband/owner should use it, too. Any feminst who questions a woman’s “love” of having her husband control all the finances should just fuck off. Winning!!!

I don’t really need men to be concerning themselves with my butthole. I got it, thanks. When a man is fixing my dishwasher, I want him to have the self control to not look at me like I might rip off my clothes and beg for his junk (at best). Clearly that’s too much to ask, though.

Ha. I don’t really mean for it to be insulting, but on a forum where people at least state that they care about objective truth (or as close as we can get using scientific methods ), dismissing the research on violent media, and also porn, is confusing.

What’s your response, then, to the industry?

What percentage of girls read fantasy novels vs. the percentage of boys that grow up on porn?

Sorry, not piers, porn.

I agree women working as piers performers should be empowered more, but my question is how does that happen in a society inundated with contempt for women? And how do you fight contempt for women without tackling a pastime (porn) that revels in it, sells it?

As we all know, all it takes to prevent teenagers from doing things is to tell them not to.

Vox had an article recently about how American pop culture has brought us to Trump. Depending on how bad it gets, I do think we may come to see the preceding decade or two as an age of propaganda that lead to the new fascism, with the internet and the extremely powerful and ubiquitous porn industry as the most…

Violent media absolutely has an effect on aggression and empathy. Anyone who argues otherwise is misinformed or anti-science.

Not everyone bases their self-worth on others’ wish to get off using their body parts.

I miss being fat. Can’t wait to look old. Am OK with men thinking it is crazy to not want them all up in my space, even if it’s “just” visual. Being invisible is as close to freedom as I have experienced.

Non-sexual partnership and community with women. Women used to have more of this when people lived in neighborhoods for decades.

It reminds me of the girl who had been a trafficking victim who then had “sex” with several boys in a HS locker room not too far back.

Right, there’s no such thing as sexualized attire. Certainly not spandex that doesn’t even cover a little girl’s butt. And the girls just love being on display that way.

This makes me feel better about my life.

It’s weird, I keep upvoting this post and it keeps not showing a star.

Depends on her finances.

Oh, you know how college girls are...

A woman may make the mental calculation that paying her way to physically surviving a situation through unwanted sex acts is smarter or less confrontational than saying no when she is trapped without help. In other words, getting dragged behind a car for being a bitch might be worse than getting through forced/coerced…