"pornography presents women as inferior - at its core, a vast majority of pornography implicitly or explicitly devalues and degrades women. In pornography, women are only valuable insofar as they bring pleasure to men. It strips women of their agency
Pornography objectifies women- similarly, the vast majority of pornography objectifies women; their bodies are important, as is their function as an element in sexual gratification.
Pornography treats sexual gratification as an end to itself - Pornography perpetuates the harmful notion that sex is everything; it’s an end to itself. The value of things like consent, the perspective of others, relationship, love, conversation, covenant, interaction, deeper meaning? Unimportant. Just exit out and move along.
Pornography encourages male aggression-Not only is pornography continuing to expand, but formerly fringe forms of pornography that encourage male aggression are also becoming more mainstream (i.e., bondage porn, rape porn, BDSM). There is a logical reason for its growth;
scientists have found “people who watch a lot of porn are likely to need increasingly graphic material to achieve the same sexual stimulation.”
