Thread by @MelTankardReist

Aurora Linnea, the author of this joint review of @caitlin_roper ‘Sex Dolls, Robots and Women Hating’ and my ‘He Chose Porn Over Me’ understands our work at the deepest level. 1/

@caitlin_roper “Two books released in 2022 by Spinifex Press shine light on pornography’s morbid sway over men and culture, and how its ever-expanding range of desecrations brutalize women and girls, “ she opens. 2/

@caitlin_roper ..Melinda Tankard Reist’s “He Chose Porn Over Me” compiles the personal accounts of 25 women whose lives have been marred by the pornsickness of male partners. ...3/

@caitlin_roper The stories she features in her new book feel like contraband, smuggled out from under the wall of unspeakability that sustains the malestream myth of porn’s harmlessness. 4/

@caitlin_roper ...Each individual account is heartrending; taken together, the effect is chilling. For a clear pattern emerges in the progression of men’s pornsickness. 5/

@caitlin_roper Early in their relationships with these men, women sense that their partners seem unusually sexually demanding, or they feel pressured to submit to sexual activity they don’t want, but they doubt their feelings. 6/

@caitlin_roper ...They say sex becomes mechanical, impersonal, that they are used like “blow-up dolls.” “I felt like a hole in the wall or an inanimate object,” a woman recalls. 7/

@caitlin_roper Then the men become more sexually aggressive and violent. They demand that women comply with their pornfed desires, which are as sadistic as they are consistent: anal sex and choking. When the women won’t consent to these acts, the men force them. 8/

@caitlin_roper For Aurora's whole searing excavation of our books:
womensliberationradionews.com/2022/12/09/spi…
#pornharms #pornculture #rapeculture #VAW #misogyny #spinifexpress 9/9