I don’t have any issue with porn (except that so much of it is stupid and badly made) but I do have an issue with violence against women in porn and how ubiquitous that has become.

“A few years ago, a team of researchers looked at 50 of the most popular porn films — the ones purchased and rented most often. [1] Of the 304 scenes the movies contained, 88% contained physical violence and 49% contained verbal aggression. On average, only one scene in 10 didn’t contain any aggression, and the typical scene averaged 12 physical or verbal attacks. One particularly disturbing scene managed to fit in 128!

The amount of violence shown in porn is astonishing but equally disturbing is the reaction of the victims. In the study, 95% of the victims (almost all of them women) either were neutral to the abuse or appeared to respond with pleasure. [2]

In other words, in porn, people are getting beaten up and they’re smiling about it.”

Correlation is not causation, but I don’t know how that could possibly not have an effect, particularly when porn is the only sex education that many people ever get.

I think that Cindy Gallop who started Make Love Not Porn has some pretty good points in this 4 minute clip.