Protect Human Rights from Pornography:Gonzo
Date Published: 2/24/2016
Protecting Human Rights from Pornography
If you look at pornography when you click on your internet, there is one dominant representation glaring back at you – and that’s gonzo porn. Basically, this dominant form is the cheapest to make which among other reasons is what makes it so popular to producers. They literally set up camera, and film the actors having sex, whether it be in the lounge, dining room, or atop an unmade bed. You see it’s not about set, mise en scene, or tone; the spectacle is the women.
Now if you’ve watched it you may have a different view of it depending on whether you’re male or female because the subset, without doubt, adopts the male gaze so therefore caters for a masculine market. Now this may be all well and good if you’re a single man; a man unrelated to any women apart from your mum or someone who simply doesn’t care, but this will affect you somewhere down the line and I’ll tell you why: this deeply misogynist style of porn affects everyone from men down to little boys, and the women in the middle that are being used and abused for entertainment. Men are desensitized and find it hard to form intimate, loving relationships, instead becoming warped by the lies that the porn style is what women want. According to The Chronology of Sexual and Drug Abuse (1998), there are more women who take part in porn than ever before who are suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to the equivalent of war veterans. Having ‘acted’ in gonzo porn, I know I have been unwell for many years and have sought extensive treatment in counselling and medication to overcome latent anguish to this day. Now considering 77% of men regularly visit these porn sites and are persistently aroused by physically aggressive and degrading acts engineered many times by multiple men on one women, we recognise that we have a problem. This is without mentioning that the average age a child first encounters ‘degradation porn’ is eleven years old with many up-taking the habit due to the ease of accessibility.
  Now pornography as it stands now has inexorably bled into our lives and that of our children’s without us having much of a say. As a liberal progressive, I remove my emotions from the situation and believe there is a place for the genre of pornography in alignment with freedom of expression. However what I don’t agree is free and symptomatic of a democracy if the mass-scale sexual abuse of women’s bodies for entertainment in gonzo; it is anything but progressive. The ‘edginess’ that gonzo porn professes to be is nothing more than a myth and a trick. Look at how Pornhub are currently campaigning against female domestic violence when studies show that the women in this industry increasingly endure battery and multiple rape, with many coming from backgrounds of sexual abuse, according to M. Norton-Hawk (2001). Sexual vocalisation within degradation porn is nothing more than an invitation for maltreatment. It’s not right, but it’s happening in reality as the industry is provoking violence towards the female. Women need to realise that by taking part in gonzo they are compromising their health, both ideologically and physically.
  Throughout the time I spent in the industry I amassed debts and I had children young which made me feel that I couldn’t dedicate hours to a clothes shop or burger joint for half the money. In truth I just didn’t know a way out. I was severely battered by an ex-partner who had little respect for me and used my glamour model status as a stick to beat me with. I stayed because I felt worthless. I had been raped more than once and strangely was so desensitized that I didn’t even bother to tell anyone until a lot later. The industry isolated me from a happy life that I would glance in the distance but was never part of and I found it difficult to form what I consider to be true friendships, only with drinkers and drug addicts that are a regular feature of it. One thing I did have though was a will to change for my little ones as well as a hunger for learning, which put me on the right path eventually. Remember: even though I went through ten years of hell, I still consider myself lucky as I could have easily ended up dead several times.
  Consenting to act in porn as a women and an object to the industry is usually just a result of the decision to earn quick money. It is through the experience that one debases and realises the damage though those still in it rarely admit it as they can’t see other ways out. It is the responsibility of like-minded people who share the realisation of what’s really happening to us as a people to minimise this damage. Then we can say we are making a real effort to protect little girls who over sexualise themselves to feel worthwhile, and little boys who are being shaped to see women as fair game and fodder. We also need to protect ourselves from this frightful abuse our bodies which is destroying our womanly spirit.
The Proposals to be put forward are as follows:
1.) All Online porn should be hidden behind paid-for sites to protect children.
2.) That actors and actresses in porn should have the option to buy images back (for the price paid)Â Â after ten years so they have the chance to move on with their lives. The government has intervened with copyright holders of revenge porn why can't they help those who make mistakes too?
3.) To ensure that people who want to act in porn are screened thoroughly for mental and emotional problems so to reduce suicide, drug and alcohol abuse in the aftermath.
4.) To regulate the amount any one producer can release belonging to gonzo genre or ‘degradation porn’ so to decrease the ideology of degradation of women.
Please sign this petition if you want to pledge support by copying and pasting link to your browser:http://www.petitions24.com/protect_human_rights_from_pornography
You can also read my latest article in Urbanette for more information on this issue: http://urbanette.com/glamour-modeling/
Thank you for reading
Vikki Dark
If you look at pornography when you click on your internet, there is one dominant representation glaring back at you – and that’s gonzo porn. Basically, this dominant form is the cheapest to make which among other reasons is what makes it so popular to producers. They literally set up camera, and film the actors having sex, whether it be in the lounge, dining room, or atop an unmade bed. You see it’s not about set, mise en scene, or tone; the spectacle is the women.
Now if you’ve watched it you may have a different view of it depending on whether you’re male or female because the subset, without doubt, adopts the male gaze so therefore caters for a masculine market. Now this may be all well and good if you’re a single man; a man unrelated to any women apart from your mum or someone who simply doesn’t care, but this will affect you somewhere down the line and I’ll tell you why: this deeply misogynist style of porn affects everyone from men down to little boys, and the women in the middle that are being used and abused for entertainment. Men are desensitized and find it hard to form intimate, loving relationships, instead becoming warped by the lies that the porn style is what women want. According to The Chronology of Sexual and Drug Abuse (1998), there are more women who take part in porn than ever before who are suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to the equivalent of war veterans. Having ‘acted’ in gonzo porn, I know I have been unwell for many years and have sought extensive treatment in counselling and medication to overcome latent anguish to this day. Now considering 77% of men regularly visit these porn sites and are persistently aroused by physically aggressive and degrading acts engineered many times by multiple men on one women, we recognise that we have a problem. This is without mentioning that the average age a child first encounters ‘degradation porn’ is eleven years old with many up-taking the habit due to the ease of accessibility.
  Now pornography as it stands now has inexorably bled into our lives and that of our children’s without us having much of a say. As a liberal progressive, I remove my emotions from the situation and believe there is a place for the genre of pornography in alignment with freedom of expression. However what I don’t agree is free and symptomatic of a democracy if the mass-scale sexual abuse of women’s bodies for entertainment in gonzo; it is anything but progressive. The ‘edginess’ that gonzo porn professes to be is nothing more than a myth and a trick. Look at how Pornhub are currently campaigning against female domestic violence when studies show that the women in this industry increasingly endure battery and multiple rape, with many coming from backgrounds of sexual abuse, according to M. Norton-Hawk (2001). Sexual vocalisation within degradation porn is nothing more than an invitation for maltreatment. It’s not right, but it’s happening in reality as the industry is provoking violence towards the female. Women need to realise that by taking part in gonzo they are compromising their health, both ideologically and physically.
  Throughout the time I spent in the industry I amassed debts and I had children young which made me feel that I couldn’t dedicate hours to a clothes shop or burger joint for half the money. In truth I just didn’t know a way out. I was severely battered by an ex-partner who had little respect for me and used my glamour model status as a stick to beat me with. I stayed because I felt worthless. I had been raped more than once and strangely was so desensitized that I didn’t even bother to tell anyone until a lot later. The industry isolated me from a happy life that I would glance in the distance but was never part of and I found it difficult to form what I consider to be true friendships, only with drinkers and drug addicts that are a regular feature of it. One thing I did have though was a will to change for my little ones as well as a hunger for learning, which put me on the right path eventually. Remember: even though I went through ten years of hell, I still consider myself lucky as I could have easily ended up dead several times.
  Consenting to act in porn as a women and an object to the industry is usually just a result of the decision to earn quick money. It is through the experience that one debases and realises the damage though those still in it rarely admit it as they can’t see other ways out. It is the responsibility of like-minded people who share the realisation of what’s really happening to us as a people to minimise this damage. Then we can say we are making a real effort to protect little girls who over sexualise themselves to feel worthwhile, and little boys who are being shaped to see women as fair game and fodder. We also need to protect ourselves from this frightful abuse our bodies which is destroying our womanly spirit.
The Proposals to be put forward are as follows:
1.) All Online porn should be hidden behind paid-for sites to protect children.
2.) That actors and actresses in porn should have the option to buy images back (for the price paid)Â Â after ten years so they have the chance to move on with their lives. The government has intervened with copyright holders of revenge porn why can't they help those who make mistakes too?
3.) To ensure that people who want to act in porn are screened thoroughly for mental and emotional problems so to reduce suicide, drug and alcohol abuse in the aftermath.
4.) To regulate the amount any one producer can release belonging to gonzo genre or ‘degradation porn’ so to decrease the ideology of degradation of women.
Please sign this petition if you want to pledge support by copying and pasting link to your browser:http://www.petitions24.com/protect_human_rights_from_pornography
You can also read my latest article in Urbanette for more information on this issue: http://urbanette.com/glamour-modeling/
Thank you for reading
Vikki Dark
