What is the old adage, “if you can’t beat them, join them”? Women who have, apparently, been exploited by men in the pornography industry since it began, are now taking control of some porn businesses themselves. Not all women are the same, of course, you get women with many different views about things, including pornography. Not all women are against it per se. Some believe that a woman’s sexuality is her own to be used in whatever way she sees fit. Some women like to watch a bit of porn themselves.
Feminist Porn: Women In Porn Taking Their Bodies Back
Which leads me to so called ‘feminist porn’ and the women behind it. Women making porn for women, does not sound so bad. If we are to acknowledge that there is a market for pornography that appeals to women, then, it is best served by creative women making pornographic content films and clips for that market. Women owned escort agencies is another example of this. The thing about sex is that it is a fairly basic or primal urge. Having sex, often, takes us back to our animal roots, as we rut and thrust like four legged beasts. The fact that men have penises and women have vaginas influences how we go about having sex in the first place.
When images of animalistic coitus are projected onto screens for viewing audiences it can appear to be demeaning to the woman who is being fucked. This is because we live in a clothed world most of the time and behave politically correctly, which involves adhering to ideals of equality in race, gender and religion. When we retire to our bedrooms most of us do not make love with one eye on the PC factor. We become aroused and act like animals, and enjoy these liberating romps. This does not mean that we necessarily act in insensitive or violent and demeaning ways, but these definitions are somewhat laxer in the privacy of one’s own bedroom.
This is the important point to make, is pornography a private or public viewing experience? The freedom of access to pornography on the Internet has caused it to be judged according to public viewing standards. There is an adult market for pornography and that cannot be denied. Woman making porn for women is an important step in removing the demonization of pornography from a twentieth century world. The more you control and ban things, the more they go underground and transmute into things that can really hurt people. Liberty for sexual expression is vital to a healthy society.
Women like Anna Span, who has been directing pornos for some twelve years, and Belle Knox who is a porn star who works for female owned porn production companies, are starting to change this industry for the better. Porn has been traditionally a male dominated industry, in large part because it has often operated underground in association with organised crime. If the state pushes things like this underground through laws banning it, it will remain the domain of bad men; to put it somewhat naively.