Meghan Murphy speaks with Rebecca Whisnant about the harms of porn and why those of us who challenge it are dismissed so readily.
Tag: Pornography
The porn industry drives prostitution, which means critics of pornography cannot challenge one without challenging the other.
Either men’s sadism is innate, or it’s learned, and if it’s learned, we can do something about it.
No matter how you package, pretty it up, or slough it off as harmless, the inanimate object that is a “sex doll” is merely a reflection of what men feel they are entitled to do to women.
Meghan Murphy interviews South Korean feminist activist and attorney, Nayoung Kim.
Why must conversations about male accountability devolve into complaints about male victims?
Threats of violence against women branded as “TERFs” are increasing — will liberals and progressives speak out before it’s too late?
After pressure from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, Walmart removed Cosmopolitan from its checkout stands. Now, liberal feminists are defending the magazine as empowering for women.
If pornography were empowering men would be standing around jacking off on each other and we wouldn’t get a look in.
Even ‘good men’ continue to defend men’s right to access female bodies, using debunked evolutionary theory.
We have to let go of a comforting illusion — that there is some bright line between men who rape and men who don’t rape, between the bad guys and the good guys.
It is no accident that, as we celebrate individuals rather than movements for radical change, Hugh Hefner has been hailed as the leader of the sexual revolution.
If elected officials are participating in sexual abuse, we shouldn’t be joking about it.
Despite David Simon’s critiques of pornography, American media stuck to their neoliberal guns.
What’s the matter with so-called “sex robots” anyway? Surely they are nothing more than a harmless toy and a comfort to lonely men, right? Wrong.