Susan Brownmiller's Argument Against Pornography

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Porn is the greatest thing of the internet! Well most of majority of guys would agree, women on the other hand like Susan Brownmiller, founder of women against pornography believes that Pornography represents hatred for women, its purpose is to display harmful and abusive acts towards women. Should something this offensive be protected by the first admendment? I would agree that pornography should have their freedom of speech removed, due to the offensive material towards women. Throughout her response, Susan’s considers pornography highly questionable to have freedom of speech. Susan, including the majority of women object the fact that pornography is not based on prurience, the objection is the belief that Pornography represents hatred of …show more content…
Susan also argues that Pornography has a heavy influence on rape cultural. For instance, how pornography has triggered rapist to give in the urges of sexual “Masochism” (enjoyment of pain: pleasure that someone gets from being abused). I agree that pornography is one of the biggest influences on rape culture, like how children become violent due to playing violent video games, I believe pornography has that same effect on the individual who watches it. In my opinion, porn can brainwash you in a sense to think what you watch can be done in reality, for some cases its possible depending who you are with on a imtimate level but for the most part I believe that women would appericiate a little heads up or maybe an invintation instead of an invasion. To make it short, all women are not porn stars. Which is the reason why Susan demands a certain change for the sake of womens rights, in this case where She advises the idea to the courts to enforce stronger guidelines that could strengthen obscenity laws, stating that the legislature should be using factual and considerate up to date community standards, to come into consideration of what can be displayed and what cannot be