Me: It’s well known…
It’s well known that habitual practice can change our beliefs, attitudes, dispositions, desires, pleasures, and behavior
Then why are we complaining about porn?
Because the fact that men habitually use pornography for sexual arousal, sexual pleasure, and orgasm during masturbation makes reactionary content in pornography importantly different from reactionary content in other media. Both are objectionable and both ought to be analyzed and criticized. But it does not make sense to go around, quote Treating Porn Like Every Other Media unquote, when the consumption of pornography in our society has specific characteristics that give special reasons for interest and concern by people who are worried about (among other things) the fusion between sex and aggression in many men’s minds and actions. I already spent quite a bit of time explaining this above in explanatory comments to Amp, an attempt at saying it more concisely, and an attempt at explaining at greater length for reddecca.
It’s ridiculous to pretend that boys grow up in a media culture that treats women as empowered, intelligent, fully equal beings, and suddenly when a boy picks up a copy of Penthouse, for the FIRST TIME he is exposed to the idea that women are inferior, fit only for sex, and the magazine will create a Pavlovian conditioning whereby masturbation will cement sexism in his impressionable male mind.
I agree. That is ridiculous.
Anticopyright.