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NOTE: We don’t agree with everything the video creator says or concludes, but he makes many important points, and provides a great deal of evidence of the horrific harms of working in the porn industry. In light of this, we helped him with this video by proofreading and editing it, etc., because the video creator’s native language is not English.
Here is another great article from Jonathon Van Maren of @PornFuelsRape, in response to people’s criticisms of his previous article, “Porn Fuels Rape Culture.”
“The evidence that pornography, especially violent pornography, both inherently trivializes rape as well as trivializes sexual assault in the minds of those consuming it as so-called entertainment or recreation, is as overwhelming as it is obvious. This is not a very difficult concept to figure out, either. Regardless of your opinion on porn use, pornography is, at its very core, the systematic dehumanization of those being portrayed and the systematic degradation of unique human beings with personalities, ambitions, personal histories, and perspectives, to a one-dimensional sex object for one-sided consumption. It’s sexually carnivorous, and sexually cannibalistic. If you can boil a person down to a body or a collection of body parts, it’s scarcely surprising that violence against that person can be accepted much more easily by those participating in the dehumanization process of porn use.”
READ THE REST OF THIS POWERFUL ARTCLE AT THE LINK BELOW:
Here’s a fun video from our friends at the Pornbusters channel at YouTube. Check it and feel free to let it inspire you to become a PORNBUSTER yourself! 🙂 Also check out the lyrics below and some of Pornbusters’ other videos! (Playlist embedded below, and link to playlist provided.) ENJOY! 🙂
WHO YA GONNA CALL? PORNBUSTERS!
When you surf the web
and find illegal crap
Who ya’re gonna tell?
PORNBUSTERS!
When it’s YouTube sex
Stuff you wanna flag
Who ya gonna tell?
I’m no victim of porn
I don’t buy into porn
You see a woman raped
Whether real or staged
Who you’re gonna tell?
PORNBUSTERS!
Porn ain’t no fantasy
It’s all reality
Give a damn and watch
PORNBUSTERS!
I’m no pornified man
and I’m proud of who I am
If you’re all alone
don’t get trapped in porn
Just call….
PORNBUSTERS!
I don’t care about porn
What I really want is make love
A ridiculous thing to wear!
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!
Who ya gonna join?
PORNBUSTERS!
If you feel like porn and you’re all alone and desperate you better call
PORNBUSTERS!
Let me tell you something:
Porn busting makes you feel good
Why would you waste your time with porn
When it makes you want more and more?
Just call!
Here is another powerful video of ex porn perfomer Traci Lords speaking out against the Steubenville rape case. In it Traci clearly points to her own rape at age 10 as the reason why she entered the porn industry: “But I can tell you this: It completely poisoned me. It was absolutely the reason that I ended up in porn films and on the streets when I was 14 and 15.”
Traci also adds:
“I want her [the recent Steubenville rape victim] to know, and all the Jane Does out there, that there’s somebody out there. “It’s me too. It’s not just you.” And there will be people out there who say terrible things about her. No matter what they say, it doesn’t define you, and it was not your fault.”
Additionally, below is a video of Traci’s second recent appearance on the Piers Morgan CNN show with attorney Gloria Allred. (On 3/18/2013) Tracy really gives one of the rapist’s attorneys a piece of her mind when he starts to try and divert the conversation away from the perpetrators of rape by attempting to shame her for her past!
Also about Traci, here is what she said on the Oprah Show about her being in porn when she was an underaged teenager: (Note: the additional text is from the Oprah show.)
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“I had stars in my eyes,” she recalls. “And I thought, ‘Okay…maybe this is a way of having the attention and having everybody like me.”
Traci grew up in an abusive home and was raped at the age of 10 by a neighborhood boy. Battling her “self-loathing,” Traci says turning to the porn industry was her way of getting attention. “It wasn’t about sex… it was about numbing out, finding a place to put that anger. I was very aggressive…it was vengeance…it was about attention.”
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These sorts of emotions and this sort of mindset are very common for young women who enter the porn industry. These young women often SAY to their “fans” that they “love sex” and they’re happy doing porn, and that’s why they are there. But the truth is that in most cases they are victims of prior sexual abuse or parental abuse or neglect, and they are seeking love, attention and acceptance — which of course they will never authentically acquire in porn, as they inevitably find out the hard way.
In any case, we thank Traci for her honesty and hope that other young women learn from her experiences and choose to seek authentic love and healthy empowerment in real life, over the false promises of the toxic, unhealthy, lie-filled porn industry.
For more of what other ex porn performers have to say about their experiences in porn, please feel free to check out our page at our website below. Thanks! 🙂
Ex-Porn Stars Exposing the Truth About the Harms of the Industry
And as always, please don’t forget to like, comment on and share this post to help spread the word about the harms of pornography and to support the cause. Thank you! 🙂
PLEASE WATCH this thought-provoking video below on the very serious harms of sadomasochism, created by our friend “R-Luv” at the StarrPowerWomen channel at YouTube. It includes a very powerful original poem written and read by R-luv, which is also posted below, as well as lots of informative content demonstrating how harmful, dangerous and sometimes DEADLY BDSM can be.
Please note that the majority of pornography is now sadomasochistic, and that the violent, risky and degrading BDSM scenarios that are said to be “just acting” in porn, (but which are sometimes very real), are often lived out IN REAL LIFE on prostituted, trafficked and raped women and children, as well as on the pressured and coerced female partners of sadistic porn-addicted and porn-fueled men.
MUST READ POETRY AND INFO FROM VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
R-luv Spoken Word Poetry on topic of brutality in BDSM sexual assault crimes like the murder of Brittany Killgore RIP…
I’m not down for this pain & pleasure trend
I like a man that’s just plain genuine
It sounds like villains who make pain their pleasure whatever happen to simple love & cherish
what’s up with all the whips & chains & high risks when I would rather settle for a passionate kiss
why is torture yearned for instead of love
I rather just have a hug
I don’t need to choke I don’t need to act like a lowlife animal
treat me like a lady plain & simple….
So don’t let no man make you go on all fours
there’s a war of respect ragin for all women
stand up speak out for our mute victimized dehumanized souls
may brutality cease
God bless you…Peace
♥Hearts out!!
Written by R-luv@StarrPowerWOMEN
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Brittany Kilgore BDSM murder news story:
“Brittany Killgore murder suspects killed to satisfy sexual fetishes, documents say”
As “Fifty Shades of Grey” has made popular headlines you must be informed of facts concerning ALL ABOUT BDSM SADOMASOCHISM!!
THE RISKS OF BDSM….
BDSM activity, even where clearly consensual, can be and frequently is prosecuted under state criminal laws dealing with assault, aggravated assault, sexual assault or sexual abuse. Such criminal prosecution can arise in various circumstances, including:
— The BDSM “scene” turns out to be more intense or painful or harmful than the submissive participant anticipated, and she or he goes to the police.
— Injury is caused that is sufficiently serious or sufficiently visible that it is brought to the attention of the police by an observer, by hospital personnel or by a friend or relative of the submissive participant.
— The police raid a BDSM event and observe conduct that they interpret as unlawful.
A BDSM relationship ends, leaving the submissive partner with bad feelings, and he or she complains to the police about assault or abuse.
— Someone with a grudge against a participant in the BDSM scene or relationship makes a complaint to the police.
— Or pictures, videos, emails, film or sound recordings of BDSM conduct somehow come into the hands of the police.
Video edited by R-luv@StarrPowerWOMEN with ***INFORMATIVE!!*** RESEARCH from “Law & Order SVU” BDSM Episodes, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), News Events, R-luv Spoken Word Poetry & MORE.. Thanks4watching ♥Hearts out!!
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Please don’t forget to like, comment on, and share this post and the video to help spread the word about the harms of sadomasochism and pornography, and to support the cause. And please subscribe to R-Luv’s StarrPowerWomen channel, which has some other great videos, including ones on the harms of pornography and sex trafficking. Thanks! 🙂
Please check out and share this extremely powerful and informative new video of a presentation by Gail Dines of Stop Porn Culture on how pornography constructs the sexuality of boys and young men to become Johns.
Please note that this video is just one of many valuable resources that was shared on our Facebook Page recently by supporters of this important cause. There are MANY OTHER interesting and informative resources posted there in our POSTS BY OTHERS section of our Facebook Page, so we urge all of you to regularly visit there and to check out, like, comment on, and share those helpful posts. Also please feel free to post interesting and useful resources there yourselves! Thanks. 🙂 (Click on the drop down menu that says HIGHLIGHTS, under our Facebook cover photo and apps menu, and then select POSTS BY OTHERS. Or just click the link below.)
Hi everyone. Tonight the show “Our America” on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) glamorizes and legitimizes BDSM and “Fifty Shades of Grey” lies and PR, and minimizes if not ignores the truth, risks, and harms. We request that you help counter this false and damaging representation by respectfully sharing with OWN TV and Lisa Ling what your thoughts are about the show, this issue, and about OWN promoting sadomasochism and the abuse and domestic violence of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Please check out all of the links below for show times, videos, where to post your feedback to OWN and Lisa Ling at Facebook, and info on the true risks and harms of BDSM and “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Thanks! 🙂
SHOW TIMES:
The show is on twice tonight, Tuesday January 22, at 10 pm and 1 am EST, and twice next Tuesday Jan 29, at 9 pm and midnight EST.
VIDEOS:
SNEAK PEEK: First 5 minutes of OWN BDSM show (at YouTube)
OWN Facebook Page posts on the BDSM show (Per one of the posts, the show “might make you giggle.” It shouldn’t, as there is nothing amusing about sadomasochism!)
BOOK: Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis
– Co-edited by @Diana E. H. Russell, Ph.D., sociologist and current and founding Board member of AntiPornography.org
Thanks in advance to everyone who helps out by speaking up! (And please don’t forget to like, comment on, and share this post to help spread the word and support the cause. Thanks! :-))
Check out this excellent Dr. Drew HLN video about the Sexy Baby Movie documentary addressing pornography’s effects on girls: “Porn is now easily accessible to kids everywhere with the use of today’s technology. But are parents keeping up with what their kids are being exposed to? ‘Our parents and all the generations before us have never had this so accessible. And because me and all of my friends do, we don’t really have anyone to kind of show us what to do,’ teen Winnifred Bonjean Alpart, star of “Sexy Baby”, told HLN’s Dr. Drew Tuesday night.”
Winnifred also wisely said many other insightful things on the show, including the very accurate and important statement: “PORN SEX IS NOT REAL SEX.” So true!
NOTE: We apologize for not being able to embed the video. WordPress.com does not support the embedding of HLN iframe videos.
In an earlier segment on the show Dr. Drew raised the issue of whether the use of violent and degrading pornography contributed to the horrific group rape of a teen girl in Steubenville, Ohio that recently has been on the news. Thank you, Dr. Drew! We think that porn use and the resulting rape culture we live in likely DOES have a great deal to do with that rape, as well as the appalling behavior of the young men who were videotaped joking about it. For more info on how pornography fuels sexual violence, please see our page on pornography and sex crimes:
Please don’t forget to like, comment on and share this post to help spread the word and support the cause. And please feel free to also follow Sexy Baby Movie’s and Dr. Drew’s Facebook Pages and Twitter accounts! Thanks!
Check out this great interview! Gail makes many good points as always, including how using hardcore, misogynist and dehumanizing pornography trains boys and young men to become “johns” who consume prostituted and trafficked women and girls as sexual commodities.
(NOTE: START PLAYING THE VIDEO AT :35. It is in English from that point onwards.)
Please don’t forget to like, comment and share to inform others and to support the cause. Thanks! 🙂
Also please feel free to like Gail’s Facebook Page and to buy her book at Amazon! Thanks! 🙂
Please read the details below. Hopefully this will encourage other countries to follow the UK’s excellent example of protecting children from the horrific abuses of hardcore Internet pornography!
[Guardian] — David Cameron has announced “radical” plans to help parents protect their children online by prompting them to tailor their computer settings to block internet pornography, violence and other unsuitable websites.
The prime minister, who described such material as “a silent attack on innocence”, said the proposals were intended to safeguard childhood and make sure it was “untainted by the worries and complexities of adulthood”.
Under the plan, people switching on a new computer will be asked whether there are children in the house. If there are, parents will then be prompted to tailor their internet filters. The technology will also show parents how to restrict access to social media sites after a time of their choosing, to narrow the number of sites that younger children can visit, and to block access to certain sites altogether.
As backup, said the prime minister, the filters against the most obvious threats – such as pornography and self-harm sites – would remain on if parents repeatedly clicked OK to get through the filter set-up quickly. Providers would also have to verify the age of the person setting the controls so that children could not set up the filters.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Cameron said the government had opted for the system because the evidence suggested that having “default on” filters as standard on all new computers was a waste of time.
The blanket-filter system, he said, was so restrictive that parents had found they were unable to access such services as on-demand TV and had simply turned the filters off because they were too annoying.
“The point is we need a more sophisticated system than this – one that allows parents to tailor exactly what their children can see,” said Cameron. “This is what child safety experts recommend.”
He added: “With our new system, every parent will be prompted to protect their child online. If they don’t make choices, protection will be automatically on. No other government has taken such radical steps before. And once all this is in place, Britain will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world – bar none.”
READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT THE LINK: (And please don’t forget to like, share and comment to spread the good news and help support the cause. Thanks! :-))
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Visit the site HERE for
"The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships."
See clips: I.e. Noam Chomsky on "choice" in porn.
See the whole film HEREright now at Media Education Foundation.
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-- NEW SLIDESHOW: "It's Easy Out Here For A Pimp: How a Porn Culture Grooms Kids for Sexual Exploitation." Available for download from Stop Porn Culture website.
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