I read the article “Prostitution and Male Supremacy” by Andrea Dworkin. Andrea begins by speaking about how women who are involved in Prostitution “have no tomorrow” and if they think they do they are stupid. She then goes on to talk about the fact that prostitution is the abuse of a woman’s body and that men take advantage of the woman’s body in all cases of prostitution. I think pornography is making men view women as a “piece of ass” and nothing more than their body. If a man has the money and can pay for a prostitute it’s like paying for a car. The more you pay, the better quality. Women are worth their sex and nothing more. This disgusts me.
I also think that pornography furthers the problems of sexism. According to Andrea, “a prostituted woman is seen as the generative source of everything that is bad and wrong and rotten with sex, with the man, with women.” If women are seen as nothing but a sex object then sexism and misogamy are going to continue to be major problems in today’s society. The men who are consuming these images think that if a woman doesn’t respect herself enough to believe in herself and in love, then why should he? Women who are prostitutes and do not respect themselves do not deserve a man who is going to respect her.
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