Like any habit, consuming pornography can be a hard cycle to break and here is why.
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8 comments
February 17, 2014 at 7:53 am
Marie
I’ll be using this in class (grade 12s)! We already talk about addiction, and I mention things other than drugs, but nary more than a mention. This gives me a pathway to discuss an awkward but important topic.
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February 17, 2014 at 8:18 am
The Arbourist
@Marie
It seems like a good segue to talking about a topic that has a fair amount of stigma attached to it.
For more background information I suggest looking up Gail Dines and her work on pornography.
Good luck with your grade 12’s, I don’t envy the task you have set out before you. Teaching porn-sick dudes about what their addiction does to them could be a difficult topic to broach.
One of the problems is that this particular generation has had such easy access to dehumanizing porn and it has, in many cases, negatively shaped their view of women, sex and relationships.
I’d be happy to help a fellow educator in anyway I can, let me know if I can be of further assistance with regards to materials/content. :)
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February 17, 2014 at 11:42 am
Marie
In philosophy I use Robert Solomon’s essay on sex as communication (the title escapes me) and many other essays by feminist philosophers, but social studies doesn’t offer such an easy in – so porn as addition it is! The film Don Jon helped – although I couldn’t show it in a high school, they’ve seen it already. Most of the guys insist it’s an innocuous time-waster until they get a girlfriend who puts out. They’re not at the point to recognize that it could possibly destroy a relationship – that they could ever want an image over the real thing seems a rare bit of deviance at this stage, not a serious problem in significant number of relationships. But at least maybe I’m priming them for later understanding.
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February 17, 2014 at 11:52 am
The Arbourist
@Marie
Patriarchy is grand isn’t it. :/
I have no doubt you will reach some of them. :)
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February 17, 2014 at 8:04 pm
House Mouse Queen
This is a wonderful post. I will admit my bias up front: I think porn and prostitution are horrific and take a second wave feminist position on it.
I did a video on an ex porn star and just got a comment today from a guy who was telling me that women know the risks when they enter porn. They don’t. There was a former Youtuber (Neesa)who had agreed to one shoot with Max Hardcore. He got her there and gang raped her, held a gun to her head.
This is what porn directors do to women just entering so they break them psychologically and physically.
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February 18, 2014 at 5:37 am
john zande
Arb, Usualfool deleted my latest comments! Tosser. Seems he just can’t handle any opposition. Oh well, he has to look at himself in the mirror and know he couldn’t counter.
Pity, though, because i jumped onto your thread with him, too.
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February 18, 2014 at 6:54 pm
The Arbourist
@House Mouse Queen
:/ Dudes and their damn porn. If the porn industry is so f’ing amazing how come there are almost no dudes in it? Like if being in porn was a license to print money and was all butterflies and unicorns why are more dudes in there getting rich and making their fortunes?
That is horrible. Porn ruins everything it touches and the sooner it goes away, the better.
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February 18, 2014 at 6:56 pm
The Arbourist
@JZ
Well you have to admit John, being shown explicitly and repeatedly that you are the Mayor of Wrongsville must get trying after awhile.
For someone of the deluded persuasion he did put up with me for quite awhile before he dropped the hammer.
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