Okay Abood.
I'm reading the Wiki article on "Sex Industry".
Look!
Businesses that provide sex services tend to cluster around military bases. The British naval port of Portsmouth had a flourishing local sex industry in the 19th century, and until the early 1990s there were large red light districts near American military bases in the Philippines. The Monto red-light district of Dublin, one of the largest in Europe, gained most of its custom from the British soldiers stationed in the city; indeed it collapsed after Irish independence was achieved and the soldiers left. The notorious Patpong entertainment district in Bangkok, and the city of Pattaya, Thailand, started as R&R locations for US troops serving in the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.
I hadn't known that! I hadn't even thought that soldiers would do stuff like that. My granddad was a military man, apparently in PK they're very strict about how the military behaves in terms of this stuff...(so says my mum.)
The term anti-pornography movement is used to describe those who argue that pornography has a variety of harmful effects, such as encouragement of human trafficking, desensitization, pedophilia, dehumanization, exploitation, sexual dysfunction, and inability to maintain healthy sexual relationships.
That makes sense, but I don't know if it's true.
Dolf Zillmann asserts that extensive viewing of pornographic material produces many sociological effects which he characterizes as unfavorable, including a decreased respect for long-term, monogamous relationships, and an attenuated desire for procreation.[5] He claims that pornography can "potentially undermine the traditional values that favor marriage, family, and children" and it depicts sexuality in a way which is not connected to "emotional attachment, of kindness, of caring, and especially not of continuance of the relationship, as such continuance would translate into responsibilities"[6]
Cool.
Some feminists object to the sex industry, which they argue is exploitative of women who work in it and contributes to the male-centered objectification of women,
Oh, I agree with that. I guess I could have mentioned it in the OP but I forgot.
Feminists argue that, in most cases, prostitution is not a conscious and calculated choice. They say that most women who become prostitutes do so because they were forced or coerced by a pimp or by human trafficking, or, when it is an independent decision, it is generally the result of extreme poverty and lack of opportunity, or of serious underlying problems, such as drug addiction, past trauma (such as child sexual abuse) and other unfortunate circumstances
So I guess they argue to reduce the underlying causes. Cool. Again.
Based on these arguments, Sweden, Norway and Iceland have criminalized the buying, but not the selling, of sexual services (the client commits a crime, but not the prostitute).
That's a cool idea
This entire article is so interesting!
pornography...reinforces sexual and cultural attitudes that are complicit in rape and sexual harassment)
Like, is that true do you guys think? :S
However, other feminists are opposed to censorship,
I'm not opposed to censorship.
The sex industry also raises concerns about the spread of STDs.
That too.
This has been useful!
Topic: Porn