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Chomsky on Pornography
« on: August 15, 2008, 05:26:05 AM »
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2008, 05:43:27 AM »
How is regular pornography humiliation and degradation of women? I'm serious, I don't understand why people feel this way. Of course there are types of porn that obviously are that way, but I never, ever was able to understand how normal porn in principle is considered to be just that.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2008, 05:50:12 AM »
How is regular pornography humiliation and degradation of women? I'm serious, I don't understand why people feel this way. Of course there are types of porn that obviously are that way, but I never, ever was able to understand how normal porn in principle is considered to be just that.

becuz it seriously is just that. i mean what else are the women who perform in pornographical videos or photos? they are simply sex objects. nobody who is sane and realizes that women are humanbeings can be in favour of that. these women are used, most of them are too naive, in need of money or/and ignorant to realize that aint that reason enough to be against pornography?
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2008, 05:54:07 AM »
How is regular pornography humiliation and degradation of women? I'm serious, I don't understand why people feel this way. Of course there are types of porn that obviously are that way, but I never, ever was able to understand how normal porn in principle is considered to be just that.

becuz it seriously is just that. i mean what else are the women who perform in pornographical videos or photos? they are simply sex objects. nobody who is sane and realizes that women are humanbeings can be in favour of that. these women are used, most of them are too naive, in need of money or/and ignorant to realize that aint that reason enough to be against pornography?
-for me it is

Umm... isn't ANY service you provide for somebody ultimately something you are "used" for? Like, if you take a cab, the taxi driver is "used for" driving you somewhere in exchange for money. It could be a robot for all you care, fuck what kind of human being he is. All that matters is him driving properly.

Do you think this photo is humiliation and degradation of men:



Simply a sex object. Nobody cares what kind of hobbies this guy has. What a poor guy, I feel so sorry for him. This needs to stop. It's just like child abuse.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2008, 06:09:43 AM »
no becuz this photo isnt degrading men, its just a naked men, doesnt humiliate him. being naked is nothing unnatural. i also wouldnt talk of porn if i saw this picture
if i mean porn, i mean things like that:



and dont tell me that this isnt degrading, only becuz such porn arrouses you, it doesnt justify this business. and you couls also ask yourself wether it arrouses you becuz its supposed to arrouse you in our society and wether you find it to be acceptable becuz it is in our society.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2008, 06:20:04 AM »
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but so far your 3 points have been

*being used for something
*women having no form of free will, not capable to decide what to do with their lives (lol)
*seen as sex objects

all those points can be brought forward for the pic I've posted, it is sexual arousement, it's there cause to some people it's pleasant to look at and nothing else. Pornography just takes it a step further, but that's about it.

Now you say "being naked is nothing unnatural". And having sex is?

I could even go as far as claiming that the pic you posted is even more degrading to men than it is to women. The woman at least interacts with the camera and so on. If she was hotter one could even argue that she is worshipped. The man, however, really is  just used as a body, all they need is his stiff dick and his cum. Isn't that terrible?


Society and culture always come to mind in such discussion, but I can tell you damn straight that I prefer such a society to a society in which dogs get forbidden because walking them around in the park leads to conversations between men and women.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2008, 07:14:01 AM »
excuse me, but yes youre wrong

*being used for something wasnt meant as being used in general
but being used for very low reasons:
those are:
a) putting men socially and culturally on a highler level: as someone who has control
over the woman.
b) gaining unbelievable sums of money by pornographical businesses
some of which enslave women and teenagers(underaged people that is)
and which partly go into human trade in order to keep up with the rival
companies
c)not use but ABUSE the naivity, ignorance and poverty of people

*dont give me that off-topic bullshit about women not having any free will
as if it had anything to do with free will. pornography of the kind i gave you
an example of promotes an image of women who dont need any free will, who
SHOULD NOT have anything like a WILL. the woman is degraded to a sex-object
is an object to have any will?

*I didnt say "women are seen as sex objects" i said, women are used in pornography to
be objects of sexual arousement, which, im sorry, i cant be in favour of. i understand
that i cant change that development in our society. but i would never want to support it.
thats my point.

of course sex is natural, committing crimes and violence is also natural to the human kind, does it mean
we should support videos of violence and of murder? beucz you know they are also kinda cool
and give some people a feeling of satisfaction.

tell me how interacting with the camera makes a woman seem as if she is worshipped or in control of anything
you can make a child in a child pornography interact with the cam too, if you want to.
what is rather interesting is that the men are not even shown mostly, you can only hear their
sighs, moans and "i will fuck you till you scream"-talk. so who is humiliated here?

and i can tell you damn straight that pornography and its repercussions on our society nowadays
is so heavy that such stupid prohibitions are made.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2008, 07:15:23 AM »
Noam Chomsky is a good guy, but from a Libertarian standpoint I totally disagree with much of what he said.

Noam Chomsky is too idealistic, and his high virtue gets in the way of his reason.  He wishes that he could conform society into the way that he would like it to be.  He has no problem telling others how they should live their lives and what is best for him.  

The example he uses about sweat shops displays just how irrational and fanciful Chomsky's idea's are.  He says that the answer is too "eliminate the conditions (such as poverty) that drive women into pornography or sweatshops".  Well, nobody has ever been able to wave a magic wand and eliminate poverty, so we have to deal with life as it is.  And if you are a starving woman in Thailand and you have a choice between pornography and working in a sweat shop or starving to death... then NOAM CHOMSKY is not God, and he can not tell you that you have to starve to death and that sweat shops and pornography should be illegal.... as a Libertarian I believe that it should be up to the individual to make whichever decision is most beneficial to them.. regardless of what Noam Chomsky thinks.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2008, 07:28:47 AM »

The example he uses about sweat shops displays just how irrational and fanciful Chomsky's idea's are.  He says that the answer is too "eliminate the conditions (such as poverty) that drive women into pornography or sweatshops".  Well, nobody has ever been able to wave a magic wand and eliminate poverty, so we have to deal with life as it is.  And if you are a starving woman in Thailand and you have a choice between pornography and working in a sweat shop or starving to death... then NOAM CHOMSKY is not God, and he can not tell you that you have to starve to death and that sweat shops and pornography should be illegal.... as a Libertarian I believe that it should be up to the individual to make whichever decision is most beneficial to them.. regardless of what Noam Chomsky thinks.

you take his response out of context, he responded to the interviewer asking whether you can favour this job if the person decides to do it becuz he also gets paid.
chomsky responded that it is just as stupid to favour as it is to favour jobs who humiliate women otherwise, as in hard work 15 hours a day.
then the interviewer asked how the conditions of production of pornography can be improved. which is a stupid framing question in frist place. so he said, it is better to improve the lives of the people who are in need of money and do these humiliating jobs, than to improve the conditions of productions of these humiliating porn products.
i think that his response is quite reasonable.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2008, 07:47:11 AM »
excuse me, but yes youre wrong

*being used for something wasnt meant as being used in general
but being used for very low reasons:
those are:
a) putting men socially and culturally on a highler level: as someone who has control
over the woman.
Well, first it has to be said that the directors of porn are often women, even. And even if you put all the control that women sometimes have aside, it is still normal that the boss has control over the one who is employed. That's just how things work.
b) gaining unbelievable sums of money by pornographical businesses
some of which enslave women and teenagers(underaged people that is)
and which partly go into human trade in order to keep up with the rival
companies
AGAIN, I do not deny that there are niches in the sex business that are completely fucked up. What has that to do with decent porn, though? It's like wanting to prohibit soccer and basketball, because some activities that are considered "sport" can be messed up. There's always this issue with where to draw the line, but that's a general tension with everything in life and porn is not special in that regard.
c)not use but ABUSE the naivity, ignorance and poverty of people
How so? If a woman is fine with having sex on camera and getting paid for it, what is the problem? Do you feel like Jenna Jameson had been abused, because she was so naive, ignorant and poor and so she got hella rich and influential in the process of her abuse? Just because having sex on camera for money is nothing you would consider, that doesn't mean every rational woman has to think like that.
*dont give me that off-topic bullshit about women not having any free will
as if it had anything to do with free will. pornography of the kind i gave you
an example of promotes an image of women who dont need any free will, who
SHOULD NOT have anything like a WILL. the woman is degraded to a sex-object
is an object to have any will?
You're reaching here, as in taking the term "object" too technical. AGAIN, yes there is porn in which the women are not supposed to be willing to do what they do. But in many types of porn, part of the porn is that the women (pretend to) enjoy the sex and interact with the camera/the viewer.
*I didnt say "women are seen as sex objects" i said, women are used in pornography to
be objects of sexual arousement, which, im sorry, i cant be in favour of. i understand
that i cant change that development in our society. but i would never want to support it.
thats my point.
So would you rather live in a society in which sex is considered something evil, and in which one has to repress his or hers natural and healthy sexual feelings and desires in order to be accepted?

of course sex is natural, committing crimes and violence is also natural to the human kind, does it mean
we should support videos of violence and of murder? beucz you know they are also kinda cool
and give some people a feeling of satisfaction.
Sorry, but this is just as stupid as this Chomsky guy comparing regular western porn to child abuse. How are videos of a porn star willingly having sex on camera even remotely comparable to illegal violence and murder? It's not, don't pretend that it is.
tell me how interacting with the camera makes a woman seem as if she is worshipped or in control of anything
you can make a child in a child pornography interact with the cam too, if you want to.
what is rather interesting is that the men are not even shown mostly, you can only hear their
sighs, moans and "i will fuck you till you scream"-talk. so who is humiliated here?
I'm not even getting into that child bs. But like I said, I'd never deny that "wrong" porn that is humiliating exists. I'm just saying that normal pornography in principle is not like that.
and i can tell you damn straight that pornography and its repercussions on our society nowadays
is so heavy that such stupid prohibitions are made.

For instance, what exactly is so damn wrong with this video: http://youporn.com/watch/2328

You are also focusing on women too much, as if depiction of sex was a male-on-female crime or something. Ask any strip club owner, men, in average, are a lot more reserved in those places than women are. Women can really behave completely ridiculous when they get drunk and hit those kind of locations.

You also make it look like it was a ghetto thing. Like only women who are completely lost and are destined to die with no other option left would consider doing porn. That is, with all due respect, completely delusional. Not all women are like you (want to be), get over it.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2008, 08:22:34 AM »

You also make it look like it was a ghetto thing. Like only women who are completely lost and are destined to die with no other option left would consider doing porn. That is, with all due respect, completely delusional. Not all women are like you (want to be), get over it.

well said, reality looks different. Chomsky doesn't know shit about today's woman and the mind of younger generations  or the nature of human beings. In fact, very few women have no other choice than to "humiliate" themselves.

to assume better living conditions= less pornography or pornography is a result of poor living conditions is very naive and too simple.

I doubt that Chomsky ever spoke to an actress about her reasons to do porn therefore he can't judge about it.






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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2008, 09:24:28 AM »
Women are just as perverted as men. Provided they are free from legal and social restraints research has shown women are just as sexually obsessed as men.

Women like and get off to the feeling that they are causing somebody else too feel pleasure and that they are being sexy. She gets off to the fact that you are getting off to her.






Now thats not to say I don't agree with Chomsky (although personally I find him boring and predictable; but he's an academic so I respect).


There ain't nothing wrong with the act of pornography itself, provided there is an adequate:


-level of establishment of the rule of law in that society.

-level of economic equality and economic options.

-level of availability of living necessities (food, clothing, shelter, health)


If those factors are poor, than of course; industry in general will become more prone to exploitation.




 He says that the answer is too "eliminate the conditions (such as poverty) that drive women into pornography or sweatshops".  Well, nobody has ever been able to wave a magic wand and eliminate poverty, so we have to deal with life as it is.  And if you are a starving woman in Thailand and you have a choice between pornography and working in a sweat shop or starving to death... then NOAM CHOMSKY is not God, and he can not tell you that you have to starve to death and that sweat shops and pornography should be illegal.... as a Libertarian I believe that it should be up to the individual to make whichever decision is most beneficial to them.. regardless of what Noam Chomsky thinks.


Infinite and the rest of you making assumptions about Chomsky's work need to learn the difference between positive and normative:



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Normative has specialized meanings in several academic disciplines. Generically, it means relating to an ideal standard or model. In practice, it has strong connotations of relating to a typical standard or model (see also normality). In philosophy, normative statements affirm how things should or ought to be, how to value them, which things are good or bad, which actions are right or wrong. Normative is usually contrasted with positive (i.e. descriptive, explanatory, or constative) when describing types of theories, beliefs, or propositions.


For example, "children should eat vegetables", "smoking is bad", and "those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" are normative claims. On the other hand, "vegetables contain a relatively high proportion of vitamins", "smoking causes cancer", and "a common consequence of sacrificing liberty for security is a loss of both" are positive claims. Whether or not a statement is normative is logically independent of whether it is verified, verifiable, or popularly held.

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Chomsky is being positive in his analysis, that is; descriptive (he would have zero academic credibility otherwise and would not be employed at any university if he just preached normative babble).


Now, in third world countries, the choices faced for women at low end of the economic demographic is either sweat-shop or sex-trade (voluntarily but more often than not, involuntarily). And the fact is its desperation out of poverty.

Another fact is:

The UNICEF estimates every child on the PLANET could be fed, housed, clothed and educated and kept WELL for $30 billion to $40 billion (US dollars) more than is currently being spent.


Incidentally,


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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2008, 11:26:14 AM »
That is, with all due respect, completely delusional. Not all women are like you (want to be), get over it.
ok stop catching feelings...youre right if you say that there are pornstars who do it "out of choice/pleasure"and in my opinion it is humiliation, if you sell your body, well its just the way i see it and thats why im not in favour of that biz.
as u admitted and this is my primary concern that there are women(men of course too.my bad i focused too much on women)teenagers etc who get abused in this business and in my oppinion this business calls for it. chomsky may seem very conservative in this regard and may not have a lot to do with pornography but i understand where he is coming from and why he doesnt support it. im not in favour of forbidding this or fighting against it either-we live in a free society dont we`? but im concerned about the im pact it socially and culturally has.
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Re: Chomsky on Pornography
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2008, 12:10:55 PM »
Z, you used an *example of porn that degrades women to get your point across (logical fallacy, any chomsky fan should be aware of that)

but you know that the genre "porn" has hundreds of sub genres, not all degrading to women. What about gay porn?

I know plenty of women who watch pornography. they might not watch the gag videos where a guy repeatedly fucks a woman's mouth til her makeup smears, but the idea of that raw sexuality on film turns them on.

It doesn't have to be for you, just like sports or some other physical form of entertainment, but it's not yours, or chomskys, or the christian family network's decision to rule it out as a vile degrading form of entertainment just because you don't have the taste for it.

Economics aside, a large number of young women and men will get naked on camera anyway. The idea of dangling cash in front of some reluctant young girl to suck cock is more of a gimmick used to sell to old perverts and you see that in several videos, but really these girls are very sexual, promiscuous girls to begin with. Most of those girls you see in films aren't dirt poor crackheads wasting away, they are just young women who found a way to make money doing something they ordinarily would after an hour of talking to some guy at the keg party.


So Z,
You, are "wrong". You are speaking subjectively on an issue that makes a lot of humans feel uncomfortable because we are taught from birth to repress our sexuality, and you are just another brick in the wall in those regards.

Porn will always be disputed as long as we have the stringent standards on sexuality that our world has today.

You are just offering your opinion and if you say any one of us are "wrong" then you are flawed as well.