Pro-porn feminism and how it works

 I recently wrote another article on porn. For some reason my porn posts seem to get the most hits. I wonder why. Anyway, I posted the article on the GodSwill Facebook page as the focus of the article was a religious movie. A lot of people loved it and two posters were quick to condemn me for degrading women and being a chauvinist pig.When I asked them if they realized that I was actually a woman, they were quick to inform me that I don’t understand female sexuality and my understanding of my own sexuality is completely based about the physical limitations of my body. Of course, when you post something to a great deal of people, you’re going to get lunatics such as those. But it got me thinking about pro-porn feminism and how a lot of people don’t understand how it works.A lot of people are still walking around with the idea that no woman could enjoy or find fulfillment in starring in or consuming porn. This idea is so flimsy that I can dispelled it myself. I watch porn and enjoy it. Therefore it’s possible for a woman to do so. Also, unless a recently study has come out, I do believe that there are porn stars who enjoy their work. The idea that a woman involved in porn has to be a sexual abuse victim with with daddy issues, striving to please men is just insulting to everyone. A woman doesn’t have to find sexual fulfillment through conventional means or be shamed if she doesn’t.If you want equality and freedom for women, then they need freedom to express themselves sexually in any way that they see fit. If it’s by being in a porn movie, then that’s their choice. No one has the right to tell someone what they can or can’t enjoy sexually.Also, porn, as long as it’s sex between two willing and consenting adults is not degrading to women. Some people argue that porn turns women into sexual objects, but if that’s the way a woman wants to be seen, then that’s her decision. Women also sometimes enjoy fantasies and weird things in bed. It doesn’t make them wrong or tainted.A man thinking that women are objects has had a lot more than porn to create that opinion. If society didn’t hammer home day after day that women are things and men get to be in charge of them, then watching a woman have sex wouldn’t be enough to convince him of that. If anyone wants men’s opinions of women to improve, taking away porn is not going to help. Changing the way women are viewed in society will.But the heart and soul of pro-porn feminism is that people are capable of making their own decisions about their bodies and expressing themselves in any manner that they want. Pro-porn feminism doesn’t demand that everyone watches porn, it allows everyone to freely explore what is right for them and enjoy their own sexuality.There are some types of fetish porn and weird shit out there that I don’t like and would never in a million years think of actually doing. But that doesn’t mean that I have to talk badly about it and encourage everyone else not to watch it or enjoy it. It’s none of my business what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms.So the next time someone thinks that it’s impossible for a woman to enjoy porn or that all women in porn are slaves to a sexist industry, please inform them that neither of these postulations are true. If someone wants to make the world a better place for women, then support women’s rights to choose their own paths in life and fight against the sexism that casts them as objects and sexual play things in every aspect of their lives.But really, whenever I see a man complaining about women in porn being degraded, it often seems like he’s trying to rack up brownie points for being a sensitive, feminist guy and not because he understands women, their sexuality or their needs. Rushing in on a white horse and declaring women so dainty and chaste that they can’t make their own sexual choices is just degrading to everyone involved. Women don’t need to be protected from their own sexuality.