Porn Is the Most Pervasive Source of "Slut Shaming"

Porn Practices "Slut Shaming"  As Sexual Enhancement For The Men Who Buy their smut. 

There are several things seriously wrong with the so-called "sex-positive feminism",  I dealt with the one it shares with pseudo-liberal libertarianism, its denial of very well established science, endangering life, last week.  But someone sent me a link to this post from a "Belle Knox" yesterday and it shows several other serious problems with it.

The post deals with the very sad story of Alyssa Funke a young college student who appeared in an amateur porn video which was put online.  Shortly after it became available, it was found by students at her former high school and the predictable happened, she was harassed by some of them on social media.  The harassment may have contributed to her suicide, though that's not clear.

At just 19-years old and stunningly beautiful, straight-A chemistry student Alyssa Funke took her own life weeks after she dabbled in the seedy world of amateur porn and was mercilessly taunted for her decision. 
Miss Funke, who wanted to be an anesthesiologist, decided to take part in a sex video with a stranger in Las Vegas for website CastingCouch-X, using the name 'Stella Ann'. 

Days after the sex tape of the teenager, from Stillwater, Minnesota, was posted online in March, abusive messages flooded her social media accounts, many from her former schoolmates at Stillwater High.

The messages, ranged from gossipy and sarcastic to nasty slurs about the University of Wisconsin student. 

High school students had reportedly gathered around tables in the cafeteria to watch the teen's sex tape on their cellphones, according to KMSP-TV.
One called Miss Funke a 'thot', a slang word for prostitute, adding: 'Does her dad know?'

Another message sniped: 'Nothing brings a school together like a porn star who graduated last year.'

Belle Knox, a student at a different college had a similar experience after she appeared in a porn video on the same site.  She wrote the post in the form of an open letter to the dead Alyssa Funke which I was sent.   In it she said:

I am not sure why you chose to perform in a porn scene. Perhaps it was for economic necessity, or perhaps it was merely a fun adventure for you. The reasons are irrelevant. You made a choice, to do what you wished with your body, of your own free will, and for that I will never judge you. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what you did, and quite frankly, I admire your courage and your confidence.

I have read the criticism that because I have said I feel "empowered" by porn that I am somehow encouraging other young women to go down this same path. Absolutely not. Your story is proof of that. Until our society's first inclination is not to verbally stone and shame a woman to death for participating in pornography, it will always be a deadly business.

And I feel as if we are bonded forever by the deep scars we bore as the unwitting recipients of society's anger and shame.

She ended:

There is a reason many women are drawn to porn: Because we are not supposed to do it. It's a flirtation with the unknown, the edge, the dark side, everything society tells us we are not supposed to do.

I do not think pornography caused your death. But I think society's reaction to pornography did.

It's time that we end slut shaming and treat sex workers with respect and tolerance. How many more people need to die before we realize that the hatred needs to end?

This post is a good example of the kind of confused thinking promoted by "sex positive" propaganda.  She has the lines of "sex pos" down pat but she obviously doesn't know exactly what it is about.

In her "flirtation with the unknown", perhaps, what was unknown to her is part of the problem.  How can she come to the charaterization of pornography if she isn't familar with it?   The fact is, pornography is mostly about the degredation of sex objects by men who are sexually aroused by the degredation and subjugation and destruction of women, other men, children and animals, who gain a feeling of power by their ability to cause pain and damage with impunity, pretending that ability means they have a superior status to their victims.   A BIG PART OF THE THEME OF PORN IS THAT THE VICTIM IS A SLUT.

A google search using the terms "porn" "slut" returns About 29,900,000 results (0.23 seconds) 

Reviewing the titles and descriptive material on the first ten pages of the google search, every one but four of them were promoting porn or encouraging young women to become "porn sluts".   Two were about young women being harassed after appearing in porn videos that were posted online (one is Alyssa Funke) and two were dictionary definitions.  EVERY SINGLE OTHER MENTION OF "SLUTS" WERE IN PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL BY THE PORN INDUSTRY.  I have no doubt that the vast majority of the rest of those 92 million results would be brought to you by the very industry that "sex pos" "feminists" and the pseudo-liberals, such as the journalist whose comment was also sent to me, are defending.

IT CAN'T BE ANY KIND OF SURPRISE THAT THE KIND OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY TEENAGERS WHO FOUND THIS VIDEO WOULD SEE THE WOMEN WHO ARE PRESENTED BY PORN AS "SLUTS" BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT PORNOGRAPHY CALLS THEM.   CALLING THEM "SLUTS" IS A FEATURE OF HOW PORN WORKS.  LOOKING ON WOMEN AS "SLUTS" IS PART OF THE PLEASURE FOR ITS CUSTOMERS WHO ARE ALMOST ENTIRELY MEN.  "SLUT" IS A TERM FOR WOMEN WHO ALLEGEDLY VOLUNTEER TO BE USED AND DEGRADED, IT IS THE SET UP FOR PERMITTING MEN TO USE AND DEGRADE THEM. 

No attempt to change such a pervasive meaning for the word "slut" is going to succeed in face of the tsunami of porn promotion that uses it that way and establishes that meaning in the minds of more people than who will ever even hear about the existence of "sex pos feminism".  "Sex positive feminists" are not feminists, they are frauds who are an asset to an industry that presents its victims as "sluts" for the enjoyment of men who want to feel all daring and transgressive in the very way Belle Knox says attracts women to porn.   That they behave badly, harassing young women like Funke and Knox is an entirely predictable result of the permission that the porn industry gives them.   THE PERMISSION TO "SLUT SHAME" IS AN INTRINSIC PART OF PORNOGRAPHY.

Belle Knox seems like a rather confused young woman at an age when all of us are prone to the same kind of confusion.  Older "sex positive feminists" don't have the same excuse, especially those who have made money as journalists for Penthouse and publications that get revenue from the sex industry.

A lot of this crap is pushed by journalists who make money from even mainstream publications that make money off of pornography and prostitution.   I blame them, NOT OBVIOUSLY CONFUSED YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE DUPED INTO BELIEVING THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING BRAVE AND ADVENTUROUS AS THEY ARE BEING USED BY AN INDUSTRY DEDICATED TO THEIR OPPRESSION AND DESTRUCTION.