A rant from the past: art vs. porn.
Porn is the kind of thing that I only want to do with certain people: me and my boyfriend, as of now. I'm not talking about being in front of the lens: I'm talking being involved with the actual making of it. I want to be in control of the explicit images that I produce. I want to decide which websites I submit them to. At that point, they no longer belong to me.
Art photography/modeling is something I put in a different category. You can argue that naked is naked, and that there's really no difference. Maybe you're right. All I know is that I feel comfortable doing different things with different people.
I sometimes feel that by pursuing these avenues I'm betraying feminism. That I'm just adding to the objectification of women. And I might be. But I think what's more important is that I'm either a)controlling the images, or b)working with an artist to produce images. I chant that feminism is about choice, but it's also about control. And what isn't? Race, class, age- what makes these things so significant is different levels of control within them, and different illusions of control within them. So maybe, when talking about porn and modeling, we shouldn't be focusing on the fact that they objectify women. We should focus on who has the control in a field that profits from the images of beautiful, sexy women. I say that those women should have the control.
Art photography/modeling is something I put in a different category. You can argue that naked is naked, and that there's really no difference. Maybe you're right. All I know is that I feel comfortable doing different things with different people.
I sometimes feel that by pursuing these avenues I'm betraying feminism. That I'm just adding to the objectification of women. And I might be. But I think what's more important is that I'm either a)controlling the images, or b)working with an artist to produce images. I chant that feminism is about choice, but it's also about control. And what isn't? Race, class, age- what makes these things so significant is different levels of control within them, and different illusions of control within them. So maybe, when talking about porn and modeling, we shouldn't be focusing on the fact that they objectify women. We should focus on who has the control in a field that profits from the images of beautiful, sexy women. I say that those women should have the control.
1 Comments:
I agree with you. Personally I find it more erotic to view a blog like this rather than a porn site anyways. It is much more erotic to peer into the life of an interesting woman like yourself than to watch some silly, and often degrating, porno. Blogs like yours empowers unique women like you. Personally, I can't get aroused by watching a total stranger get it on with another total stranger. I find that true arousal comes from knowing a little about the person first. That's why I like your blog. Ok sorry about the long post.
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