Is there any feminist who is against radical feminism and supports ethical porn?

[AstroGeek946]

I have always considered myself a sex-positive feminist ever since I entered college, caring about every gender issue, including men's, and comprehensive sex education. I am also a moderate democratic socialist like Bernie Sanders, and I agree with some ideas of socialist feminism.

My feminist views kept changing over the years when I have run into some self-proclaimed "feminists" with misandrist views that made me distance myself from them, especially radical feminists, after reading a messy history of radical feminism. In my honest opinion, radical feminism is nothing but extremism that normalized transphobia (TERFs), prejudice towards sex workers (SWERFs), and misandry even when being used either as "sarcasm" or a "joke."

I have been listening to both sides about pornography, which has led me to embrace sex-positivity and ethical porn. These ideas have helped me find my sexual confidence since I was so insecure about my sexuality. Since then, I still enjoy watching or listening to ethical porn videos or ASMRs while masturbating or having sex.

I agree about the problems with mainstream porn, such as degrading people and being used for an "educational" purpose, as anti-porn people say. I don't consider myself anti-porn because I don't think porn is entirely bad, and banning it won't solve all the problems. On the other hand, I am highly selective about mainstream porn to avoid unethical ones. For instance, I still enjoy watching some hentai videos while masturbating or having sex that I would consider closely ethical even though it still has some problems, like "vanilla," depending on the context.

Overall, I believe porn can be neither good nor bad, depending on the situation. I think ethical porn can solve most of the issues, but not exactly all, which can be useful for entertainment and educational purposes when done right to represent sex as a fun activity by choice for everyone without degrading people, especially women.

[Derekk]

You're asking an incredibly academic question on a website that caters to the absolute lowest common denominator, so temper your expectations if you plan to stick around.

My two cents: Radfems tend to be a small group of older women that came of age in the 70s when pornography was almost exclusively exploitative and ran by only men. Nowadays you have the Internet and all forms of amateur content posted by couples and the like, and porn has effectively been liberated from the professional "industry" that has been criticized for decades, (rightfully so). These older women are stuck in the 70s, and usually have no interest in keeping up with the times, because they think that as soon as they type in "porn" on the Google Webs, they'll find grainy hardcore child porn or a rape scene. So they just don't bother and spend their time shaking their fists at clouds.

[AstroGeek946]

Thank you for your informative answer.

[Kittyboy]

It's not that deep into academic debates about feminist epistemologies lol, it's just that this site is binary in its very name and form, so it keeps away the people who indeed have the cultural capital to reach this level of thoughts, and has illiterate far-righters swarming the place as they're not (yet) banned here. To add to the answer, the thing is that today in the young generation, radfems have lost the battle against intersectionnality, you may feel a TERF-anti-porn backlash obviously, just as other red-brown groups in process of social death can get very loud as they degenerate into absurd ideologies while they wil indeed grasp some truth about how deep we're getting into uberized neoliberal dystopia, sex-work is abviously included. In any case sex-positive feminism is the norm among all liberals and leftists alike. Now to go deep into the university field, as Derekk says, radical feminism is 70's second wave materialist feminism that refused to take the queer path in the 90's that lead to modern intersectionality, and became neoconservatise since then, refusing to see the material conditions advance. If you know about the history of popular struggles of past century, it's exactly the feminist replica of the 1st internationale split that will lead to the divide between anarchists and orthodox/leninist-marxists (and a whole lot of radfems now have become MLs too, while weirdly a small part remain anarchists still, but it will die soon.) It's really just a matter of refusing to see your obsolete lecture of materialism evolve along the world and become neocon. Now young radfems often experienced strong patriarcal traumas, and real actual "SJWish" toxicity in queer/intersectionnal spaces (just like some anarchists get disillusioned and turn into red-browns later, trauma and disapointment makes you go back to idealism and myth, it's always a battle about our own decreasing cerebral plasticity in the end...)

[Agape93]

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[SueShe]

I have never been good at decrypting those emojis. What do his raised hand mean?

[Agape93]

It means that I am a feminist against radical feminists and supports ethical porn. Basically I’m raising my hand to show affirmation, like when a student does it for a teacher b

[SueShe]

Got it, thanks

[Agape93]

Anytime hon :)

[In_Trance]

ethical porn... hot commodity right there

[Anonymous]

I just think porn is disgusting and gross altogether. I think it’s creepy watching other people get off.

[AstroGeek946]

That's fine if you don't like porn.