Re: [Marxism] Is Porn That Depicts the Subjugation of Hispanic Women Tied to the Rise of Hate Crimes Against Latinos?

[Jeffrey Thomas Piercy <mqduck@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If there's one thing I learned from my correspondence with one of the 
founders of NAMBLA, who is also a subscriber and contributor to this 
list, it's to view sexual exploitation and societal restriction on 
manifestations of sexuality as two sides of the same coin.

But here's another example. The viewing of females as sexual objects is, 
as I'm sure everyone here knows and agrees with, one of the major 
manifestations and consequences of male dominance in society. On the one 
hand, staring at the body of an attractive stranger (if you are a boy 
and they are a girl) is almost universally considered offensive. On the 
other hand, no one would disagree with the appropriateness of expressing 
what I'll call "love" of the physical beauty of one someone is in a 
relationship with. Thus the observance of and opposition to the 
objectification of women is valid, yet we demonize lust in such a 
selective way as to actually reinforce dominant ideas about when and 
under what relations sexuality is appropriate, an idea that 
predominantly oppresses women.

Sociologists have viewed the shifts coming with the women's liberation 
movement as one of the greatest changes in human history. A liberation 
in sexual relations, restrictions, norms is obviously a necessary 
accompaniment to that, yet the two have often come in conflict. I've yet 
to fully figure out dialectics, but I know that the necessary unity of 
those sometimes opposites is one of the most relevant issues of the last 
several decades up to today.

As for the article, I think a lot of thought went into it yet it's not 
very insightful. The attractiveness of, for instance, the fantasy of 
being "raped" is so common (far more common than the fantasy of 
"raping") that simple conclusions such as the article draws seem 
somewhat ignorant.

But that's just my immediate take on it. I haven't though it through too 
much, which usually takes me several days.


-Jeff

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