It’s not only that, it’s that people don’t know how to critically evaluate the sources that they find. They think everything on the internet is true and if someone wrote something, it must be correct. Look at the damn source and THINK about it.

My mother really encouraged me to see my father, and I still didn’t. He wasn’t abusing me, he just had stuff going on in his life that was hard for me to deal with and I wanted to hang out with my friends.

The timing ...

It’s not complaining. It’s telling the truth, and people need to hear it. When people enjoy porn, and many if not most people do, they will bend over backwards to avoid thinking about the abuses connected with it. We only want to imagine happy, empowered women as the performers. We only want to imagine people using it…

So anyone but Elizabeth Smart? Her experience is relevant in discussing he effect of porn on the treatment of women

Wasn’t good in our case. For about a year he has been a “no-fapper” which has led to a reduction of porn use, and things in our sex life are much better.

I don't think any of us can say that porn didn't make this situation worse. If that is her truth I am not here to take it from her.

Seriously. I’m not sure how accurate they are (as is the case with any study), but some “studies have shown” that men who consume large amounts of porn can’t even get it up for “real” women anymore. They look at a certain very unrealistic ideal and no flesh and blood woman can fulfill that fantasy.

My ex husband used to do the same to me, he forced me to watch porn and do the same things we watched, sometimes he used to force me to have sex 5 or six times per day, I felt like a sex slave. If I was sick or sored I needed to apologize to him and compensate him the next day. And I never told this to anyone but I…

Whether porn is systematically destroying the moral fabric of America is a conversation for a different day . . .

This is a good question.

Lol right so the lobby is using her because she can’t have a voice or opinion of her own? God forbid anyone criticize sex work on Jezebel. 🙄🙄🙄

I don’t think I can be convinced that porn is healthy for men. Ladies, whose boyfriends/husbands are pornheads, tell me honestly and not the “sex positive, politically correct, men pleasing” version, do your partners porn habits mean great/improved sex with better, more frequent orgasms for you personally?

I really need to listen to the little voice that says: “Stop reading. Now. You read three sentences, you gave it a fair shot. You know this will not get better. Or go anywhere. And you have over-due library books that you actually like reading.”

All I read, ok skimmed was “Look at me I am mom who works in the porn business and I feel really bad about it. Oh and I drank my own plecenta vodka (WTF) and took mushrooms because my husband looks at porn and it made me feel like shit.” She sounds like she regrets ever having a daughter because she is girl and girls…

Da fuq did I just read?

Exactly! I feel like many Jez readers are white and priviledged and they have this idea that all sex work is empowering and those of us who are worried about women who are coerced or trafficked are “hysterical” like te author said. Well, I am Mexican and an immigrant and most women I know who did sex work were coerced…

I’m really torn about this issue. On the one hand, I have friends who have been sex workers. They have been white, middle class women who chose to get into it to make a few extra dollars, to make an income when they lost their jobs, to put themselves through school, etc.

No. A feminist taking issues with porn is NOT sex shaming nor am I somehow "sex-negative" because I have serious issues with porn. I am not opposed to "fucking" I am opposed to industries in which women are turned into less-than-human sex objects for men's pleasure/debasement.

I'm getting sick of these porn accounts from privileged white college-educated women. Of course you find porn empowering. You choose to do it. As someone with a college education it's easier for you to demand to be treated the way you want to be treated, to pick and choose what you do, what you want to see, because…