Rape - why, and Porn.

I'm just curious really to hear from the guys point of view, in that, criminal psychologists suggest that rape is performed to induce a feeling of power and control for the rapist. Do you believe it is about this?

Secondly, take a hardcore porn movie, for example, some of the scenes (I've seen personally), where the woman is in a very subservient and submissive position, receiving what could be perceived as abusive hard penetrative sex. Im sure you know what i mean, lol. My boyfriend has seen a lot of harcore porn, and he does at times, re-enact scenes from these movies, in that he likes to literally be rough, to the point where it hurts/holds my neck etc. Now, I consent this, and he doesn't hurt me to the point I want him to stop, but I do wonder if these hardcore porno's depict very rough penetrative sex (where the woman facially demonstratively shows pain; i know she is acting) to be a massive turn on/normal?

I'm not one of these feminatzi's at all, because i like being submissive myself, but for rapists and the guys role in hardcore porno's, it appears to be about control and power....

People have all kinds of fetishes when it comes to sex. As long as what you're doing satisfies you, involves only consenting people and is healthy - I see no reason to declare it abnormal or wrong. I know it's actually quite common for people to find it sexually gratifying when they're willingly put in situations such as yours. If you have a problem with it just tell your boyfriend

8. In 1987 in the course of routine investigations into other matters, the police came into possession of a number of video films which were made during sado-masochistic encounters involving the applicants and as many as 44 other homosexual men. As a result the applicants, with several other men, were charged with a series of offences, including assault and wounding, relating to sado-masochistic activities that had taken place over a 10-year period. One of the charges involved a defendant who was not yet 21 years old—the age of consent to male homosexual practices at the time. Although the instances of assault were very numerous, the prosecution limited the counts to a small number of exemplary charges.

The acts consisted in the main of maltreatment of the genitalia (with, for example, hot wax, sandpaper, fish hooks and needles) and ritualistic beatings either with the assailant's bare hands or a variety of implements, including stinging nettles, spiked belts and a cat-o'-nine tails. There were instances of branding and infliction of injuries which resulted in the flow of blood and which left scarring.

I think porn has affected teenage boys and indeed many men's views of sex and what is OK to expect to do with a girl or young woman. If porn was not available at all or as much I think there would be fewer sexual assualts on women.

Allow me to quote briefly from Laskey v United Kingdom (which you may be lucky enough to read in full when you're a law student! Yay!)



Ouch.

we're always told that rape is done not for pleasure but for the power and control they gain, rough sex tends to be done for pleasure rather than the power/control (though this may be hat causes the pleasure; depends on the person).

I hope I'm lucky enough to read that! Law sounds like it's going to be far more interesting than I first considered I would rule that unhealthy; actually maltreating each other to the extent of permanent physical injury suggests psychological problems in my book. Some people enjoy pain... but that seems barbaric.

They should be given a psychological examination, not a sentence

I think you are talking a load of old ****.

I think the real damage porn does, it that it teaches people poor technique because porn is not for the pleasure of the actors, it is for the benefit of the viewer.

It also gives those who watch it unrealistic expectations of what women (and men!) should look like and how 'mind-blowing' sex actually is.

I do think this contributes to sexual attacks against women, however it is definitely not the only factor.