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Pornography is Good For Us: Without it We Would Be a Far More Repressed Society

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The Importance of Imagination in Pornography

At 16 I was a self-claimed feminist who believed what mainstream feminists and politicians like Claire Short were saying that porn degraded women. An actual objectification that is fleetingly seeing somebody for their sexually attractiveness alone is something women do just as easily as men. Anti-porn feminists make mistake extreme sex with the lack of consent, she says. It's more useful to liken porn to a game or a sport than it is to everyday life.

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