Stop Watching Porn—Start Fighting Patriarchy!
Protest Pornhub's NYC Porn Film Festival
Updated February 24, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
We received this article from StopPatriarchy.org.
Saturday, Feb 27, 2-4 pm
Melrose Street, btwn Knickerbocker Ave and Irving Ave in Bushwick*
From Friday, Feb 27—Sunday, March 1st, Pornhub, the largest porn site in the world, will host its first ever Porn Film Festival in Bushwick, NY. This marks a further step in the mainstreaming of pornography, even as pornography becomes ever more violent, cruel, dehumanizing, degrading, and humiliating towards women.
Consider a few of the all-time most viewed videos on Pornhub:
- “Tight pussy gets smashed”—celebrating violence against the female anatomy (57+ million views)
- “Don't tell mommy”—portraying a teenager eagerly giving her step-dad oral sex and more (25+ million views)
- “Mandingo destroys her tight asian snatch” celebrating racist stereotypes and featuring a Black man “destroying” a tiny Asian woman's genitalia and dignity (26+ million views)
- “Arrested cheerleader fucked”—celebrating the portrayal of a young teenager being extensively violated by the cop who arrested her (27+ million views)
- “Stepmom and [daughter] fucks and sucks her boyfriend's cock” celebrating a racist portrayal of a daughter and step-mom in Muslim headscarves revealing themselves to be sex-crazed “sluts” who team up on a teenage boy (17+ million views)
This doesn't even mention Pornhub features under “hardcore,” “gangbang,” “double penetration,” etc!
There is nothing “edgy” or “rebellious” about pornography. It is not “society becoming more comfortable with sex.” It is society becoming ever more saturated in the sexualized degradation of women.
Every woman at every hour of every day—whether on the street, in her home, at her job, in school, or on a battlefield—is affected by, diminished by, and endangered by living in a world where millions upon millions of men get off on watching women reduced to objects to be tortured, humiliated and brutalized for their sexual arousal.
That this Festival includes LGBT and “feminist” porn does not make any of this “liberating.” No matter who promotes it, porn does nothing to challenge the basic divisions into slave and slavemaster, dominated and dominator, object and subject that mark our world—and which have everything to do with why LGBT people and women are oppressed in the first place! While we join actively in the fight to combat all forms of bigotry and discrimination against people based on their gender or sexual orientation, the idea that liberation for anyone can be found through eroticizing domination and degradation is a terrible illusion.
Join with StopPatriarchy.org on Saturday, February 28 to PROTEST Pornhub and its Porn Film Festival. Bring a sign, bring a friend, or show up on your own. Many people hate this constant degradation of women – and many more can be won to cast it off and stand up against it – but we have to go out in public and declare it! We have to stand up and challenge this culture, expose the harm it does, break others out of it, and bring forward a far better and much more liberating culture in the process.
Women are not bitches, hos, punching bags, sex objects or breeders.
Women are FULL HUMAN BEINGS!
If you can't imagine sex without porn, you're fucked!
Stop Watching Porn—Start Fighting Patriarchy!
* Directions by train and foot:
Take L train to MORGAN AVE, exit near intersection of HARRISON PL and MORGAN AVE.
Go East on HARRISON PL towards KNICKERBOCKER AVE.
Turn right onto KNICKERBOCKER AVE (5 minutes).
Turn left onto MELROSE ST.
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