-This is making hate to a woman, said Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women´s studies at Wheelock College in Boston. She started her power point presentation by warning against brutal images. -The girls are now colonized into seeing themselves as sex objects. -How do we undo the concept of sexuality young boys get from the porn industry. Professor Dines showed how pornography and the glorification of pimps and porno stars now spills over into main stream media, making them a tool of promotion for the multibillion porn industry.
For those of us who have not kept track of hard core porn, Gail Dines presentation left us with a sick feeling of nausea. After attending this workshop, I would call the violence perpetrated against women in hard core porn films and magazines a War on Women. The images and films showed violence against women in every conceivable way, the male organ and other objects deliberately used to do as much bodily and mental harm as possible to the woman. – In pornography, what a man does, is he makes hate to the woman, says Gail Dines. She has interviewed porn film directors that told her it was hard to come up with ever new and creative ways of denigrating and violating the women in their films. One trend is suffocating the woman with the penis.
She also referred to an interview with a convicted child molester, “Dick” in March 2008. – The culture did a lot of the grooming for me, he said. It´s a perpetrator culture.
-In pornography, what a man does, is that he makes hate to the woman. You cannot grow up as a man today and not being groomed into using porn. What impact will this have on the sexuality of young boys? How we undo the concept of sexuality young boys get from porn, asked Gill Dines. She continued by highlighting the role main stream media play in promoting pornography and prostitution. Through music videos, and even documentaries, pimps are presented as cool, rich and famous. A picture from a front page of the magazine Vanity Fare also show the crossover from porn magazines to serious magazines. The front page shows the famous actress, Nicole Kidman, unbuttoning her blouse, showing off her bra, with the caption – Nicole Kidman bares all.
- We are training our girls to be sluts. The girls are now colonized into seeing themselves as sex objects, says Dines, who called on action against the porn culture and invited to an international conference in Boston in june 2010. (See link below.)
Jonathan Walton, poet and leader of an urban project in New York, made a strong impact as he rapped his poem against pornography, begging forgiveness of the victims of the porn industry for looking as these pictures, which beaconing him from every news stand, rapping how these same images distorts his sexuality. His call for action was a boycott of porn magazines and films. What will happen to the industries billions if men stopped buy these products. There will not be a supply if we do not demand. – You are being invited into action, was his last call to action.
http://gaildines.com/
http://stoppornculture.org/
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