Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sunc.osc.edu!malgudi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero!silver.ucs.indiana.edu From: csluder@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (KirK) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Who's Exploiting Who? (Was Re: A Moral Question) Message-ID: <66963@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 23 Oct 90 23:41:38 GMT References: <16098@s.ms.uky.edu> <65210@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Oct23.002616.538@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN. Lines: 21 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Pornography, like any entertainment industry, responds to the laws of supply and demand. While most pornography is sexist the statement "there is no pornography that does not degrade women" is inherently false. The content of pornography is determined by it's demand, and the porno industry is starting to respond to a new market, women. The answer is not to fight pornography, but to demand that the industry responds to your power as a consumer. Pornography is not in and of its self sexist. To say that it is would be like saying "horor novels are sexist because the genera is dominated by men who cast women into unfavorably sexist roles." It is not difficult to start improving a genera in your favor. Science fiction was notoriously sexist until women joined the ranks of SF writers. [Is the cause and effect that clear? How do societal changes affect what literature gets published and does this open the ranks of authors? - MHN] At any rate, moving to ban any form of literature is quite dangerious. It is much better to change it than to outlaw it. KirK