Yes. The term “Porn” has been tactically stripped of meaning to facilitate its weaponization against non-dominant groups. Obvious in which books w sexual content are targeted. We can make the critical distinction. Porn as “sexual explicit content for the purposes of arousal”.
https://twitter.com/feministlib/status/1459580041818513410
Books like GENDER QUEER or OUT OF DARKNESS include sex for other reasons, such as showing the pain of navigating sexuality from a marginalized identity, illustrating that survivors of sexual abuse can reclaim joy in their bodies, and illustrating what consent (and its absence).
And context matters. Porn literally has no context beyond arousal—titillation is the goal start to finish. Sex, when it appears in lit, is an element in a complex whole that must be examined as such, not condemned bc of passages or screenshots out of context.
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