Angelique’s Reviews > Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography > Status Update

"Thus, Feshbach and Malamuth state that 'one exposure to violence in pornography an significantly influence erotic reactions to the portrayal of rape.' "

"The catharsis mode, when applied to pornography, assumes that the ore you see the less you do. In contrast, the imitation model states that the more you see the more you do."

"...and that open display of pornography promotes a climate in which acts of sexual hostility are not only tolerated but ideologically encouraged."

"Take, for example, the classic case of Donald Fearn, who abducted seventeen-year old Alice Porter... Fearn... tied her up on wires and an awl, mutilated her while she still lived in ways so horrible that they have never been publically reported, beat her to death with a hammer, and threw her broken body down a well. After his arrest..."Ever since I was a young boy I have wanted to torture a beautiful young girl."

"Every few seconds in America a woman or girl is slapped, slugged, punched, chopped, slashed, choked, kicked, raped, sodomized, mutilated, or murdered. she loses an eye, a kidney, a baby, a life. That's a face. And if the statistics are anywhere near right, at least one of every four women reading this paragraph will feel that fact through firsthand experience."

"Because such dehumanized ideas about women are so widely accepted, pornography is often not recognized as a system of propaganda designed to exploit and misrepresent the sexual differences between men and women."

Interesting.

"In his book Techniques of Persuasion, J.A.C. Brown lists eight techniques which are universally employed in propaganda campaigns. They are:

1. Use of Stereotypes
2. Name Substitution
3. Selection
4. Lying
5. Repetition
6. Assertion
7. Pinpointing the Enemy
8. Appeal to authority."

"The easiest way to accomplish these ends is to convince people that they are being threatened in some way by a scapegoat group. The propagandist must create or augment this mood of fearful dissatisfaction in order for his ideas to be readily absorbed."