Naomi Wolf has an article about porn in The New York Times and its real effects on that fact that it’s become “wallpaper” and seeped into mainstream media.
For most of human history, erotic images have been reflections of, or celebrations of, or substitutes for, real naked women. For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn.
For two decades, I have watched young women experience the continual “mission creep” of how pornography—and now Internet pornography—has lowered their sense of their own sexual …read more

I love the name of this book I’m reading called Princesses & Pornstars by Emily Maguire, an Australian feminist theorist.

“And if how sexy you feel is only related to how much you conform to someone else’s version of what sexy looks like, then you are – by definition – a sex-object. Most of us have been sex-objects at one time or another, perhaps without knowing it, because it’s a matter of how another person sees us. . .

“But if you see yourself as the sex-object, if you can only enjoy sex when you think you look like someone with whom …read more