If humanity was awake, then all lives would be respected. If humanity were truly conscious/awake, then movements such as feminism would not exist. It would not need to. When the voice of an individual feminist rises above the rest, men express their fear of her with anger and hatred. Men are accustomed to being the dominant masculine-gendered sex, in subtle and not so subtle ways. So, therefore, articulate and reasoned arguments against inequality are misinterpreted as an advocating for a tipping of the scales in the other direction, instead of what feminist discourse is: a critique of societal and personal entrenched systems, and normalisations of male power and dominance and the accompanying subordination of women.
Pornography is one such example of this subordination. Pornography is a deceit, a lie. It propagandises men and women's sexual roles. It shouts at the viewer, loudly and repeatedly; women and girls are nothing more than holes to be used and abused, and all men are nothing more than erect penises relentlessly in a state of perpetual arousal, violently and repeatedly abusing those holes.
Pornography's existence is just one more representation of capitalism's self-serving indifference, indeed; callous disregard, for suffering. My innocent optimistic hope is that once all humans see the truth of existence: that all living beings are manifestations of the one consciousness, then the unfortunate, anachronistic, harmful structure called the porn industry, will crumble. We all suffer, feel fear and pain. There is no separation. Pornographers essentially place women outside the moral community in order to enslave them. The deeper issue therefore is the normalisation of using girls and women at all.
The societal enforcement of subordination as represented in porn, for profit, essentially enslaves both men and women to assigned gender roles. This unfortunate paradigm must be seen for what it is, and undone.
The awakened man, does not watch pornography. He sees all life as being of the one consciousness, and therefor as equal. He respects women too much to watch them being reduced to three holes and two hands. And he does not want his brain tyrannised by violent, base acts that are the opposite of loving intimacy. A porn-colonised brain would prevent him from enjoying 'the real thing': passionate, reciprocal love-making with his partner.
Men whose brains have been colonised repeatedly by such images, become less able to give to a real life partner, because they lose arousal. Seeing his lover's naked body, and enjoying the privilege of touching and arousing her, is no longer appreciated as it once was. It is seen as inferior to porn. The more pornography a man watches, and has watched, the more likely he is to deliberately think abut porn during sex in order to maintain a arousal, and his ability to experience pleasure from intimate behaviours with his partner is reduced. I feel for young women today. So few of them will get to know what it is like to be truly appreciated and physically loved by a man who is spontaneous, playful and intimately loving.
Male capitalist institutions such as the pornography industry, strip clubs and prostitution, place females outside the moral community. In a world where women and girls were respected, these would not exist. Women are commodities; reduced to 'flesh'. It is the normalisation of using people. Any use of humans for profit involves enslavement and abuse. This unfortunate paradigm must be seen for what it is, and undone. It is about Awakening: seeing the truth of existence, then the world can be seen as it is, so what can be created is a better reality of equality and respect.
The Awakened man at some point had ceased to unzip his pants and search 'porn' in Google. Instead, with both hands, he began to type: 'anti-porn', 'how porn harms', 'how porn hurts women', 'porn and sex trafficking', 'how porn kills love', 'porn and erectile dysfunction', 'porn watching is cheating', 'porn reduces women to objects to be used, abused, broken and discarded', 'how porn exploits male sexuality', 'porn is a patriarchal system of capitalist exploitation', 'the harsh reality for women and girls in porn', 'porn is filmed prostitution', 'some porn is filmed rape', 'porn removes women's humanity, and when men masturbate to it, it also removes THEIR humanity'.
To all the Awakened men and women who speak out against sexual exploitation; you are respected and appreciated.
-Mountain Daughter
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