When pornography is endless and freely available, when what was once considered deviant is now celebrated, when everything is accepted and there are very few sexual taboos left, then sexual vulgarity, innuendo, and transgression become almost impossible. When nothing is left to the imagination, there is nothing left to be surprised by.
Dean Kissick • The Vulgar Image
breaks as well with the commodification of pornography,
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
“Pornography makes women and children into objects, pieces of meat on public display,” said Chuck Colson. “Pornography reduces these . . . creatures to trash. As it does so, it jeers at the God who has conferred human dignity.”
Lee Strobel • God's Outrageous Claims: Thirteen Discoveries That Can Transform Your Life (Strobel, Lee)
Male pornography is primarily visual, focused on specific body parts and actions, and relatively devoid of narrative or relationship complexity. Such pornography has never been successfully marketed to women, whose pornography, or “erotica,” has traditionally taken the form of romance novels. In the romance novel, sex is always subordinated to
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porn saved my live
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