Pornography graphically subordinates women to men. It presents women as dehumanized sexual objects for the carnal pleasures of a male audience, and reduces women to their body parts.

 

Pornography degenerates women as group in society, and adds to the oppression of women. Our oppression has been ahistorical as demonstrated cross-culturally in the onslaughts of rape, assault, and prostitution (whether voluntary or coerced). Most pornographic pictures depict pain, filth, and embarrassment and yet they portray these depictions as though they are enjoyable to women.  Women are hurt, physically and mentally, by means of excessive vigor by their male partner(s); the insertion of external objects; and women even perform sex act on animals in some films. Women thus are exploited and manipulated as sexual servants.

 

The acceptance of pornography in our society is partially due to society’s consistent belief that ‘dirty’ women enjoy sex. Let us take the example of the Madonna versus the whore in this illustration of gender discrimination.  If a woman is comfortable with her sexuality, and chooses to embrace it, she is seen as a sort of harlot, but if a promiscuous man engages in meaningless sex with just as many sexual partners, or even twice as much, he is seen as being ‘macho.’  The promiscuous man indiscriminately has sex with as many partners as he chooses for he comports to the male behaviour which is conducive only to the male race (in order to be acceptable by our society). Only the male race is given such privileges, for women were from the very beginning viewed as servants for men, and as a result, we were subjected to continuous inferiority clauses. Pornography is a utility for men to use women as servants.

 

It is the physicality of men that empowered them from the beginning. Because of men over-bearing women with their physical strength and thus threats thereof, men were regarded as supreme; and women were treated accordingly as per the male supremacy clause. All cultures, even contemporary ones such as ours, consider the male race to be supreme. If we look around us, women usually spend more time grooming than do men. In almost all pornographic pictures, women are very made-up, and much younger than their male co-star(s).  Even in a professional setting, women are still judged on their looks, no matter how intelligent they are. Women must rely on their looks to get ahead, and pornography portrays this message. This gender inequality is difficult to acknowledge because we fail to realize that this inequality is perpetuated by sex. What goes on in the bed of the porno-stars we watch has much more of a profound impact on society than we believe. Pornography includes, but is not limited to, obscene films writings, and photographs which have little or no artistic merit. Pornography thus is the institution of male supremacy that sexualizes the objectification and violence of women, and generates disparity of the genders, not as an instance of artifact but as a system of social actuality.

 

 

Women are subordinated as citizens and reduced to sexual objects in pornography. We are objectified as objects of sexual desire, and violated as persons. Since it is the men in our society that determine what the boundaries of acceptance are, women in pornography and thus society as an audience are required to consent to such violations. The normative tolerance of these violence is perpetuated in societies even if they are inactive recipients.

Our significance as persons diminishes with each pornographic film made that literally uses women. Submission to pornographic insults is a precondition to accepting the male supremacy clause.