Women and Porn

 

Women have a right to speak about porn, no doubt. But I think the woman who says it privately to a man who is interested in her will have more of a powerful effect than the woman who makes it her platform. Many men, and young men learn this quickly, are prone to shutting off when they think a woman is nagging. It could be powerful if a former porn star or someone like that comes on to talk about why they regret doing porn, and there are other contexts where a woman could address men on this issue and it be positive. But most women will do it in such a way as to be seen by many as Karens.

That being said, porn won't stop being a societal wide issue until men collectivise and make it a serious crime, again. As it once was. Influencers will have some effect, but it will be limited. Porn is so damaging to a society it needs to be outright banned. It is not just a harmless activity, it has done everything from ruin marriages, to make people slow to get into relationships, through to turning some people into real sexual predators. Look up the story of how these men fell into their life of perversion and you will invariably hear how porn became an issue for them.

I suspect it will be banned one day. When people become aware of how it has affected their kid's child care operators, or school teachers, or baby sitters, etc, once people really grasp this, the societal outcry will be too loud not to do something about it.

Right now, the outcry is being suppressed, ironically, so that women can pretend their choice to outsource almost their entire role with their kids to strangers is not the disaster it really is. But eventually the reality will break through. This initiative to outlaw it needs to be led by men.