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From: kaveh@ms.uky.EDU (Kaveh Baharestan)
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Subject: Re: Who's Exploiting Who? (Was Re: A Moral Question)
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csluder@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (KirK) writes:


>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.

This supply and demand stuff is not completely true.  Companies try to
MAKE the consumer want their product. Case in point: That big blowup a
few months ago over a cigarette company specifically targeting a group
of people (poor- metropolitan-blacks) for a new brand of cigarette.
There is a fine line between suppling a demand, creating a demand, and
exploiting demographics.  Thisthatandeveryother product is sold using
sex. The other day i saw butter being sold with sex. Pretty soon it'll
be ... "Fleshman's Light, No clorestorol, no calories, so spread it
all over!" Sex is obviously a powerful means to promote a product
(they would use something else, if it weren't) so what does porn
promote?

>Science fiction was notoriously
>sexist until women joined the ranks of SF writers.

Still is.

-kaveh