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Thank you for the ask. My opinion on it is little to no different than on mainstream porn. I hate it.
There is no rule that women cannot be traffickers or cannot exploit other women. It is just it is almost always men who do that.
Any person, regardless of being a woman or a man, in favor of publicizing sexual intimacy is direly wrong. It is as much as about how your viewers treat your "content" as it is about under which circumstances it is made. If it can be used as a lever against you later, although you made it "consensually", do not put it on the World Wide Web. In an ideal world, we as humans would accept it by now that we are not entitled to anybody's intimacy.
Beyond every valid critique that you can never be sure if it is consensual ever, and this is backed up with statistics and the testimonies of ex-porn actresses, "feminist" or "ethical" porn is a hoax so people feel less uncomfortable watching taped rape.
I just googled "female run porn companies" and I want to talk about the first article that popped up, which proves my point.
Just right after the title, there is an important statement about so-called feminist porn sites. "No more degrading content made by men for men." This statement is actually an acknowledgement that porn by default is degrading, male-run, and male-targeted. One should ask herself, is it by coincidence? The truth is that it is not.
The nature of porn is about degradation through exposure. That is why it should not be conflated with sexual acts that are not publicized. The element of humiliation is amplified by commodification of these experiences. At that point, the experiences become irrelevant. To reverse its nature is futile.
The first paragraph is a severe case of cognitive dissonance. The mainstream porn is acknowledged to be verbatim "degrading, insulting, and violating women". The conclusion is right under the author's nose, that porn hurts women. Yet, Suzannah chooses to identify the problem as porn not being catering enough to women for its brutal nature.
This conclusion is a direct result of one lie: porn is fantasy. Untrue, porn is in fact the exact opposite of fantasy. It is a reality, in which real women get raped on tape. Suzannah does seem to disregard this fact, that is why she can brush it off so easily. Porn is the last place to look for empowerment.
Here, the below paragraph is another example of conflating sex and pornography. Sex is a private act, an act of intimacy. The moment it is publicized, it becomes commodified.
Let me explain what I mean by commodified:
When it comes to pornography, money is always involved. Many of us share "amateur" videos online, the difference lies that many of us do not expect any money in return. It is because there is no need for an element for coercion to share content that is not dehumanizing and humiliating.
"We are not porn -porn is a performance." it reads. Honey, why do you need to remind your viewers that? Could it because sex in real life is not a stage performance, and the moment it is "performed" your viewers fail to see your humanity?
Above, every word is sanitized. Perfectly chosen to not to turn you off. "A lot of free porn is not produced ethically." You should say with your heart that a lot of free porn is taped rape. That is the true reason why they often deal with content removal.
There are countless paid porn services, and countless ex-porn star testimonies that they admit they lied at the beginning and end of the videos saying they enjoyed making the video just so they can get paid.
Ethical pornography is an oxymoron. It will always be. Personally, I have a special kind of hatred towards "feminist" or "ethical" porn. It is a lot more insidious than men being heartful about enjoying hurting women and commodifying their intimacy.
This entry was my least favorite one. The first thing I did was to check the comments of the said video.
That is what I mean by insidious. It stops you from asking why we are letting teens watch porn in the first place. Why are we not concerned by teens watching porn? Why are we not concerned that they are exposed to content where publicizing intimacy is normalized?
I have endured her in the TEDTalk for a couple of minutes. She describes a humiliating scene with exaggerated gestures, then everybody laughs. That is the reality. To them, vulnerable women, most likely trafficked and/or groomed, acting humiliating scenes is something that can be "corrected" but not the true nature of porn.
"Feminist" or "ethical" porn is for people who are aware of the problem but do not want to inconvenience themselves with the truthful solution: stop feeling entitled to intimacy if it comes at the expense of women's safety.
