You Can’t: and Here’s Why
Consider this story from Fight the New Drug: “One female survivor, whose captor slept on top of her at night so she wouldn’t escape, watched her through a hole when she went to the bathroom, and listened to her phone calls with a gun pointed at her head, was forced to appear in a video that made the Sinclair Intimacy Institute’s list of ‘sex-positive productions’! [1] ‘Every time someone watches that film,’ she said, ‘they are watching me being raped.’”
Not one of the scenarios listed above is from someone kidnapped, tied up in a basement, or held at gunpoint to film the videos. Each of the actors above lived in their own home and collected a paycheck for their role. But does this sound like consent to you?
Please do not participate in an industry that assaults people for profit. Chains Interrupted offers assistance for those struggling to quit viewing pornography. This includes both men and women! If you would like assistance through a NON-JUDGEMENTAL, confidential and highly successful program, please contact us at info@chaininterrupted.com or call our office at (319) 364-0222.
~ Teresa
[1] Catharine A. MacKinnon, Are Women Human? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007)
[2] Hughes, D. (2010). “Sex Trafficking of Women for the Production of Pornography,” Citizens Against Trafficking.
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