Indonesia Says No to Pornography
Good for these kids. I wish that here in North America young women would emulate statements such as these:
"It's very, very bad for Indonesia," student protester Lina Mufliha said of pornography, which she said leads to rape and crime. "It can destroy our generation, so we have to give some attention to this cause."
"In Asia, there is so much impact of porn, there is so much rape and sexual crime because of porn."
Instead, we've got 14-year old girls running around wearing Playboy Bunny shirts and other Hefner-sponsored paraphernalia, acting like adults and "impressing" the boys while being blissfully ignorant of indirectly promoting the enormous number of negative associations that the porno industry has: drugs, organized crime, etc. They are, in effect, participating in their own exploitation. A real woman doesn't need to exploit her sensuality/sexuality via the porn shirt, and indeed the porn culture, in order to win a man's heart; yes, it might get them a one-night stand and a venereal disease from the 30-year old meatheaded creep with the "Player" shirt at the local nightclub, but who wants that? No self-respecting woman, that's for sure.
It's high time that our society took a good look at itself and the porn culture and realized the harm that we're hoisting upon ourselves. By supporting Playboy and its far more-vulgar competitors, we're supporting an industry that:
a. uses, degrades, and abuses women;
b. feeds normal women the incredibly negative message that they have to "look" or "act" like the airbrushed women in the videos & magazines in order to get a date;
c. encourages men that it's okay to use women for five minutes and then discard them because they've served the purpose of fulfilling the fantasy;
d. ruins relationships;
e. encourages the solicitation of prostitutes, "workers" in an "industry" that is supported by organized crime, drug trafficking -- thus taking one step further the situation I described in (c);
f. when porn doesn't do it anymore, and there's no prostitutes to be found, incites the idea of rape;
g. encourages certain liberal movements to pursue legalizing prostitution in order to remove the "stigma" of all things associated with pursuing a transaction to acquire the sexual services of a degraded human being and compelling that party to fulfill whatever sexual fantasies or desire the purchaser has, feeding more money into the illegal and immoral organizations mentioned in (e);
h. promotes "sexual revolution" at the expense of public decency, personal integrity, personal dignity, and thus encourages people to have as much sex as possible without taking into consideration the potential consequences or their own self-respect and self-worth.
That's a good short list of eight. I'm sure there are dozens upon dozens more. Bottom line: don't buy porn, don't use porn, don't support porn. It's not healthy for you, for your view on women, or society. Throw out the Playboy bunny shirt. It's not hot; it's a symbol that you don't respect yourself.
6 comments:
Hello Richard
I have to admit that your article is the first thing I have read on the internet that actually made me cheer and applaud. It’s about time that someone spoke the truth about the evils of playboy and the wicked pornography industry. Since the 1960’s women have felt free to exhibit their sexuality and even had the gall to dress themselves (the horror, the horror). It’s imperative that men such as yourself inform the opposite sex about what it is that makes them a “real woman”. It seems to me that men haven’t had enough power over women throughout history and you’re just the man to change that.
I, of course, will gladly enroll in your war against boobies and navels. I was born to play the roll of Spock to your Kirk, I will be the Lars to your James, if you will. You see, I was once in a solider for the other side. When I was 16 I bought a playboy from a 7-11 and my entire life changed for the worse. The moment I saw that filthy naked woman I turned into a militant misogynist. My friends say it was like watching a man change into a werewolf. I quickly went from playboy, to hustler, to barely legal. Sigh, soon I was reading chicks with dicks and standing outside of the local churches trying to pick up nuns. It’s a slippery slope and we need to fight back in order to save the women of this country.
We need to remember the role of God in this battle. You are right when you talk about pornography stealing away the dignity of women. As males we need to work with Jesus to take back power. My first order as your lieutenant will be to introduce a law banning any public displays of the female form. We must immediately bring the Burqa to Canada if we are to give women the proper respect and dignity they deserve. We have a lot of work to do if we want to catch up to the other leaders of the women’s movement (Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea etc) but I know that with you as Captain, the S.S Equality will soon sail to glory and fame.
Thank you for inspiring me to help make the World a Better Place.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. You've got a great grasp of it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's pretty sad that you treat the subject of female exploitation in such a casual manner, as though it's something to mock and laugh at.
You've also done a wonderful job at creating a faulty parallel; to suggest that I'm advocating Tehran-style "rights" for women is simply not true, and you should be ashamed of yourself for implying that suggesting a little civility and decency is on the same level as forbidding women's rights. It's interesting that you invoke God and bring religion into the so-called "debate" that you're trying to stir up here. I'm not a particularly religious person, and my motive here is in no way affected by the Christian-inspired "moral majority." Quite far from that, I'm inspired by my girlfriend, a young woman of excellent character and conscience who is tired of being force-fed the idea that she has to look and dress a certain way because "that's hot," to use the deplorable Paris Hilton's favourite catchphrase. She's quite able to think for herself, and in a relationship of two equal people, does it really make sense that she should have to feel as though she's got to live up to an image-based ideal in order to impress the likes of me? Absolutely not.
Tell me honestly here: do you really believe that it is empowering for a woman to be gallavanting around 9/10 naked in the latest 50 Cent video? How about Jessica Simpson strutting her stuff in a softcore male fantasy; does that really bring women up to a level where they are respected and treated as equal? The answer is no. In my opinion, and I speak only for myself, the best manner for a woman to earn the respect of a man is to demonstrate authenticity, which is impossible in the glammed-up world of Hollywood and the pornographic industry which you have aimed to defend here. Nothing in that world is real. The smiles, the bodies, that look in her eyes, none of it. To forsake the core of individuality to appeal to the image, which is solely for the purpose of giving men base sexual pleasure, denies authenticity and only feeds the negative image that far too many men have of women.
This isn't about me, a man, asserting power over women. I have no interest in that, and your sarcastic notion of shoving women into burqas is horrifically insulting. It's about making an appeal for respect, real authentic respect. You obviously don't understand the concept, otherwise you wouldn't have made such numerous condescending comments towards women in your post. You're too clever by half, and hopefully one day you'll grow up and realize that you're part of the problem.
Who's your favourite little rascal? Is it Alfalfa; wait, I bet it's Spanky. Sinner.
Good to see this blog is not short of controversy. I was beginning to think only I attracted nay-sayers... welcome to the club Rich!
Incidently, I enjoy porn as much as the next guy, but I do understand Rich's point. I'd never acuse Rich of being brief tho ;) hah
The ignorance in Ali Khamenei's comment is a perfect example of why this problem continues to exist as largely as it does. Brushing it off, and accepting porn culture with a smile is what has allowed something so ridiculous become so commonplace and accepted as normal. Men like yourself who grow up looking at that smut from such a young age, (16 like yourself, or even younger, say when a child discovers his father's porn) learn from that early that it is okay to use a woman for your own pleasure and entertainment, and then dispose of her when you're done. You grow up with the assumption that you're entitled to sex. Things like porn magazines, videos, and strip clubs rob a woman of her personality and her individuality. Who she is cannot be portrayed because you're looking between her legs instead of inside her head. It creates an incredibly unhealthy and distorted perception of what women are. Reducing women to their body parts and objectifying them in that way makes it incredibly difficult for you to ever have a healthy relationship and family with one. Porn teaches you to look at women for their bodies, instead of for what is in their heads. What are your first thoughs when you see a woman on the bus, or the one serving you at McDonald's, or a female teacher or politician? I'd be willing to wager that immediately, you're sizing her up. You're mentally rating her on your scale of how fuckable she is. Those kinds of thoughts are not biological for a man. They are learned thoughts, they are cultural. The "women's movement" in certain countries, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea etc (the ones you listed) is obviously not something to be proud of. Women are oppressed, covered from head to toe, and not allowed to voice their own thoughts and opinions. The problem in western culture is no better. The end result is the same, and that is the belief that what goes on in a woman's head; her thoughts, feelings, and opinions are invalid and unneccessary. Women in both cultures also live in great fear, imposed by men. Your rather extreme example about a teenage boy wanting to deflower a nun is a little far-fetched, however the idea of rape is not. Rape is a crime that is rising at an increasingly rapid rate. It should not be right for a woman such as myself to be afraid to walk home from work at night, because there are known perverts in the area. What drives a man to rape? Why is it that he feels he is entitled to sex with any woman he wants? To inflict that kind of violence on someone, to use her for her body, and then dispose of her? Do you honestly not see the correlation, the cause-effect relationship here? Porn has never been so easily accessible as it is today. I suspect that when you bought your playboy at 16, that it wasn't located at the front of the magazine rack, conveniently located at eye level like it is now. Gone are the days when Playboy and its ilk were covered with paper and hidden in the back row. Now, smut magazines are located at the front, softcore porn is out into mainstream movies, and anything a person wants to see is available instantly on the internet with just the click of a mouse. Your laidback attitude is the reason that this problem continues to be a growing problem. With porn becoming so mainstream and accepted, the rate of crime and rape is only going up. People like you, and the future generations, need to be taught that the use of a woman's body is not something a man is entitled to.
Can you see why I love this woman? Consider yourself pWned!!1!
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