This has hit the news and its a perfect example of the mistaken analysis of some radical feminists. Whilst the Muff March has the noble aim of drawing attention to cosmetic genital surgery, they are completely wrong to blame the trend on porn.
Women’s beauty regimes increasingly encompass ‘ideals’ peddled by the pornography industry, like the porn norm of women removing all their pubic hair, the industry preferring its performers to look more like pre-pubescent girls. (Kat Banyard)
There is so much pressure on young women to conform to an ideal that comes straight out of the porn industry. (Jess Haynes)
Um, whatever the sins of the porn industry may be, this is not one of them. The porn industry is enormously diverse and it caters to every taste. If you like the natural look you can find porn that features ‘hairy pussies’, even abnormally hairy pussies. And if you like large labia or large clits, then you can find that too.
How do they get this so wrong? Well, laziness. The real culprit is censorship and Judeo-Christian morality which considers women’s genitalia to be obscene. As a result many people do not get to see images of real genitalia and therefore develop a false idea of what they look like.
Venus Anadyomene, Ingres
If anything the porn industry has made it possible to see images of real genitalia. During the 40′s and 50′s photographs were retouched to remove all genital detail (see Invisible Vulvas). In 1969 Penthouse challenged censorship laws in America by publishing its first pictorial showing pubic hair (see Pubic Wars). After that more barriers were busted and in rather short time a number of magazines were showing full genital detail, including large labia, clitorises and so forth.
Given this well-known history I cannot understand how porn is now being blamed for giving a false image of female genitalia.
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they should have called it the million muff march !
The irrefutable fact of the matter is these cosmetic procedures can make you a ‘commodity’, rather specifically your sex organ as a ‘commodity,’ and this is where pornography comes in. Being a ‘model’ of an art piece and being a ‘porn star’ are not the same. I believe being subject to every sexually explicit topic is not ‘porno,’ but when it makes a woman or parts of her a ‘product’ it’s almost always associated with male-dominant consumerism.
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Yes, it can ‘commodify’ but often it’s self-commodification because many men aren’t all that fussed. Beauty is a form of female competition.