{"id":4526,"date":"2014-01-29T04:44:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2014-01-29T04:51:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:51:56","slug":"a-nice-discussion-of-objectification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/a-nice-discussion-of-objectification\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nice Discussion of &#8220;Objectification&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_4dPB9MVS8\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long been meaning to write a huge essay on the concept of &#8220;objectification&#8221; and how it applies to porn. Specifically the way that it bugs me that it&#8217;s the standard anti-porn response: &#8220;But porn objectifies women!&#8221; Everyone loves saying that but there&#8217;s no deeper discussion of what the word means or how it applies in porn and to wider society. Nor is there a discussion of the way sexual fantasy sometimes requires objectification and why that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>But because I&#8217;m so busy making porn rather than writing about it, I thought I&#8217;d post this because I think it gives a nice overview of the concept of &#8220;objectification&#8221; without resorting to black and white thinking. It&#8217;s far more holistic and wide-ranging in its criticism. Indeed, it&#8217;s partly interesting because it doesn&#8217;t talk about porn; Laci Green is more interested in the way advertising, movies, TV shows and fashion regularly use objectification of women&#8217;s bodies without a second thought.<\/p>\n<p>At 3:25 she says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a sane world &#8211; one that we do not live in &#8211; everyone would be mostly subjects and <em>occasionally<\/em> objects. This is actually the status quo for men right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying graphic says that occasionally seeing a person as an object of sexual desire is OK. I was pleased to see that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4527\" alt=\"objectification\" src=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/objectification.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/objectification.jpg 598w, https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/objectification-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/objectification-102x55.jpg 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pointed out in the past that being seen as an object is not something that happens only in the realm of sex and I think that needs to be repeated. We can objectify the person at the supermarket checkout because they become only a means to an end for us. So it&#8217;s not a complaint that is specific to porn or media\/advertising. I think the real question is: does objectification cause harm. In this video, Laci makes the case that it does but that harm extends from the <em>degree<\/em> of objectification, not the objectification itself.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been meaning to write a huge essay on the concept of &#8220;objectification&#8221; and how it applies to porn. Specifically the way that it bugs me that it&#8217;s the standard anti-porn response: &#8220;But porn objectifies women!&#8221; Everyone loves saying that but there&#8217;s no deeper discussion of what the word means or how it applies in porn and to wider society. 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