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“(TW: rape culture) In a 1988 study of 114 undergraduate men, 91.3% admitted they “liked to dominate a woman”; 86.1% said they “enjoyed the conquest part of sex”; 83.5 percent agreed that “some women look like they’re just asking to be raped”; 63.5% said they “get excited when a woman struggles over sex”; and 61.7% decided that “it would be exciting to use force to subdue a woman”.”
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Greenlinger V. and Byrne D., “Coercive sexual fantasies of college males as predictors of self-reported likelihood to rape and overt sexual aggression”, Journal of Sex research, 1988.
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“Considering the fact that pornography producers always have to make increasingly more violent and degrading materials due to the increasingly desensitized users’ demand to push the envelope, the unbelievable amount of bodily harms these women suffer is abject. Taking a close look at pornography in a non-sexual way makes obvious that these women suffer daily: choked during oral sex until they cry, forced to perform violent and/or painful anal sex, having their sphincters stretched in such a damaging way, getting beaten, slapped, tortured and bruised, these women must horribly suffer inside of that industry. Tears in the body and throat must be awfully painful. Sometimes, during the scenes, the women forget to act: they do not even attempt to fake moans of pleasure anymore, they are in pain and focused on being able to survive through the scene.”
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(via whatispatriarchy)See Gail Dines Conference Google Video “Pornography and Pop Culture: Putting the Text in Context” (2007) — linked to this website in the “Content and Speech” section; Robert Jensen’s Articles on his website “Robert Jensen Home Page”; Dines, Jensen, and Russo, Pornography: the Production and Consumption of Inequality; 1998; Jensen, Getting Off; 2007.
In just one generation, age-old ideas about women have been swept aside … but what does that have to do with men? Authors Michael Kaufman and Michael Kimmel, two of the world’s leading male advocates of gender equality, believe it has everything to do with them—and that it’s crucial to educate men about feminism in order for them to fully understand just how important and positive these changes have been for them.
Kaufman and Kimmel address these issues in The Guy’s Guide to Feminism. Hip and accessible, it contains nearly a hundred entries—from “Autonomy” to “Zero Tolerance”—written in varying tones (humorous, satirical, irreverent, thoughtful, and serious) and in many forms (“top ten” lists, comics, interviews, mini-stories, and more). Each topic celebrates the ongoing gains that are improving the lives of women and girls—and what that really means for men.
Informal and fun yet substantive and intelligent, The Guy’s Guide to Feminism illustrates how understanding and supporting feminism can help men live richer, fuller, and happier lives.Heaven forbid any guy, like, reads a feminist book by a woman. or listens to a feminist woman he is close to. or listens to a woman at all.
Feminism: only interesting for men when it’s by men for men and men benefit.
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“(TW: rape) In a study of males’ self-reported likelihood to rape that was conducted at the University of California at Los Angeles, the word “rape” was not used; instead, an account of rape was read to the male subjects, of whom 53% said there was some likelihood that they would behave in the same fashion as the man described in the story, if they could be sure of getting away with it. Without this assurance, only 17% said they might emulate the rapist’s behavior.”
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Neil Malamuth, Scott Haber, and Seymour Feshbach, “Testing hypotheses regarding rape: Exposure to sexual violence, sex differences, and the “normality” of rapists”, Journal of Research in Personality; 1980.
Y’know what’s the “scary” part. “Feminists aren’t saying this,” [as much as MRAs would like to think so], this is what these men, are saying, ABOUT THEMSELVES!?!?!
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I hate men.
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“And on a five point scale, you find that after exposure to sexually violent images… up to 57% of those males indicate some likelihood they would commit rape if not caught… In fact, in the general population, as it turns out, anywhere between 25 and 30% of normal, healthy males indicate some willingness they would commit a rape… The relationship between particularly sexually violent images in the media and subsequent aggression and changes in or toward callous attitudes toward women is much stronger statistically than the relationship between smoking and lung cancer.”
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(via whatispatriarchy)-Researcher Edward Donnerstein, at the Minneapolis Public Hearings in 1983.
Testimony of Edward Donnerstein, The Minneapolis Hearings, December 12-13, 1983; in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings; 1997.
SOAP is an Outreach that aims to distribute thousands of bars of soap with the National Human Trafficking Hotline number and key identifying questions FREE to local motels. Volunteers talk to motel owners and managers and provide them with a quick overview of what is happening to young girls in their hotels.
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“In a meta-analysis (a statistical integration of all existing scientific data), researchers have found that using pornographic materials leads to several behavioral, psychological and social problems. Their study concluded that:
— One of the most common psychological problems is a deviant attitude towards intimate relationships such as perceptions of sexual dominance, submissiveness, sex role stereotyping or viewing persons as sexual objects.
— Behavioral problems include fetishes and excessive or ritualistic masturbation. Sexual aggressiveness, sexually hostile and violent behaviors are social problems as well as individual problems that are linked to pornography.
— “Our findings are very alarming”, said Dr. Claudio Violato one of the co-authors of the study. Dr. Violato, Director of Research at the National Foundation for Family Research and Education (NFFRE) and a professor at the University of Calgary, said “This is a very serious social problem since pornography is so widespread nowadays and easily accessible on the internet, television, videos and print materials”.
— Studies have shown that almost all men and most women have been exposed to pornography. An increasing number of children are also being exposed to explicitly sexual materials through mass media.
— The rise in sexual crimes, sexual dysfunction and family breakdown may be linked to the increased availability and use of pornography.
— The rape myth (belief that women cause and enjoy rape, and that rapists are normal) is very widespread in habitual male users of pornography according to the study.
— “There has been some debate among researchers about the degree of negative consequences of habitual use of pornography, but we feel confident in our findings that pornography is harmful”, Violato noted. “Our study involved more than 12,000 participants and very rigorous analyses. I can think of no beneficial effects of pornography whatsoever.”
— Exposure to pornography puts viewers at increased risk for committing sexual offences, experiencing difficulties in intimate relationships, and accepting rape myths.”
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(via whatispatriarchy)Claudio Violato, Elizabeth Oddone-Paolucci and Mark Genuis, Meta-analysis on pornography, National Foundation for Family Research and Education, published in scientific journal Mind, Medicine and Adolescence; 2002.
