Thread by @CollectiveShout

Interesting personal story from a woman who quit porn.

“Growing up, I used porn to simply pass the time. In lockdown, I’m having to resist those urges.”

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/watching…

“Magazines like Cosmopolitan, in their efforts to normalise porn culture, encourage women to take ‘the plunge into porn’ in order to add fun and spice into their love lives. But these magazines aren’t our first encounter with porn:...”

“...like many girls of my generation, the Playboy pencil case accompanied me on my first day of high school, my pre-pubescent self? blissfully unaware of the cute bunny emblem’s significance.”

“Against this hypersexualised backdrop, it was no wonder I felt pressured to be the cool girl who didn’t care if her boyfriend masturbated to other women.”

“Dr. Gail Dines explores the way porn has seeped into our lives, writing that: “what the ’Porn is fantasy’ camp misses is that porn actually works to limit our imagination and capacity to be sexually creative”

“Something else which empowered me to reject pornography was discovering feminism, and in time, I came to feel more secure in my body image and sexuality.”

Now that’s real empowerment. Full story here: huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/watching…

#PornHarms #feminism #empowerment #pornculture