Childhood Spanking Linked to Coerced Sex and Risky Sex in Adulthood; Amazing.net Milks Pain for Profit (explicit)
Posted by NPNAdmin at 3/18/2008 2:15 PM 
Categories: Capital Video Corporation,Impact of Porn,Child Molestation,Porn Examples--Judge for Yourself
Categories: Capital Video Corporation,Impact of Porn,Child Molestation,Porn Examples--Judge for Yourself
Spanking children can affect their sex lives as adults, AP reports. Professor Murray Straus is a domestic abuse expert at the University of New Hampshire. He hopes his research findings will discourage the use of corporal punishment.
The following movies are on sale now at Amazing.net/Goflix.com:
Bad Girls Get Spanked
Misbehavin' bitches get punished!
A Caning for Miss Granger
First Hand Will Spank
If you've been bad...It can feel so good!Bad girls deserve to get spanked so fill their cheeks with fire from the crack of your hand paddle or flog!
Intense Fetish 690 Naugty Girls Spanked 4
Six naughty girls. Six spanked butts. Six good spanking scenes. If you enjoy spanking videos yu will love this one. In each scene the girl is caught doing something naughty. She is given a good over the knee spanking. Some girls are extra naughty and get the belt taken to them. Ayako is spanked using two wooden paddles with holes in them!
Intense Fetish #713 Naughty Girls Spanked #5
Four good spanking scenes! If you enjoy spanking videos you will love this one! In each scene the girl is caught doing something naughty. She is given a good over the knee spanking! Some girls are extra naughty and get the belt taken to them. For most of these amateur girls this is the first time they have been spanked on camera and they are very cute!
Intense Fetish # 724 300 Strokes For Spanky
Three hundred hard strokes using six different instruments! With assistance from his slave Nicole Master Len picks three instruments from the wall!Spanky picks three more for a total of six. Spanky is given fifty strokes from each instrument. The strokes are spaced out every three to five seconds. There is only a small break between each new instrument. Every stroke is applied to her tender ass. See her ass get red and bruised with small blood blisters forming. Spanky is a real pain slut. You will see her writhe in pain and then smile in ecstasy.
Nothing Butt Spanking
Spanking lovers REJOICE for here are 6 sizzling spanking scenes for your perusal and enjoyment! Join us a Master Warlock and Master Ronnie Rock take 6 of the hottest submissives around and turn their asses into canvases fo corporal punishment. As the title says there's nothing BUTT spanking going on here in our latest release and thus your eyes will be filled with non stop visions of firm and tender female ass flesh being paddled spanked swatted and stung by the masters firm and unyielding hands of discipline.
Pain 25
Remember when your daddy would come home from work and beat the living shit out of you? Remember how your
flesh bruised and bled at the end of his belt? Some days you thought your worthless life was over. My how you
begged and cried. Good times. Damn good times. Well now you can relive those special moments. Take Pain #25
home today!
Spank 'em Hard
If you like all male hard spanking action you will love this video. This great new spanking video has 13 models in 8 hot scenes. Mark spanks lots of guys throughout the video. At the end they gang up on him and beat his butt good with leather straps. Lots and lots of sore red butts in this movie. Ouch!
Spank Me I'm Bad Girl
Spank My Tranny Ass
Bad bad tranny! Turn that he-she hiney red! Spank them good!
Spanked Roommates
And are they ever! There is some serious and extremely well executed corporal punishment. Caning padding spanking whipping.
Spanking Desires
Where pleasure meets pain-watch as Mistress Erzsebet teaches her submissives a lesson
Spanking Squirts
Please spank me harder!!!
Spanking Therapy...
Amazing.net stores also sell sadomasochistic magazines:
See also:
Herbert, Brooks and Osayande on Misogyny, Money and Power; Amazing.net's War on Women and Blacks (explicit)
Extreme Audition #6
What happens when you have a tiny little blonde walk into your studio? Well a lot of fun for Michael Kahn. This pretty little thing was in tears by the end of this video. She had no tolerance for pain and so it was great fun to beat her little ass.
Mistress In Da' Hood
If you can't beat 'em whip 'em good! And the fur is definitely flying as you watch the painful climaxes these all black gash lashers love.
New Blood
Hold on tight and smile Bitch! The only difference between a filthy cunt whore on the street and a porn star is the camera.
Pain #26
Can you maintain ninety minutes of masochistic mayhem?! Watch today's most worthless degenerates line up for abuse and debasement. On the street. In private. Female pigs have been stripped of all dignity. Listen to their wretched screams. Watch their distorted pained faces. Then jerk off to the brutal inhumanity of it all!
Now on Sale at Amazing.net: The Swirlies (explicit)
Now Showing at Amazing.net: The War on Relationships (explicit)
Casual Brutality #2
Red assed lasses trussed up and tormented!...
Domination
There is a fine line between pain and pleasure and that line has been more than blurred this time. Pain can be our biggest pleasure tapping into our sixth and seventh senses...taking our sexual experiences to a new realm and darker dimension where the rules as we know them cease to exist.
House Of Pain
House of pain collects plenty of top bondage babes and submissive sluts that have been spanked flogged hog tied gagged suspended caned strapped to walls doors closets the pantry roped to eye bolts spread and humiliated...
Pain In The Ass
The bitch has been naggin at you all fuckin day. Take out the garnage. Do the dirty fuckin dishes. Dont drink so much beer. Blah Blah Blah. Theres only so much a man can fuckin take so when its bed time make it your turn to be the major pain in her ass...
Now Showing at Amazing.net: The War on Privacy and Consent (explicit)
Blame It On Daddy
Look what daddy made them do. These chicks are fucked up and they just can't get enough. Adopt these sluts today make them call you daddy and see what they won't do!
Blame It On Daddy #2
Hi daddy look what I'm doing! Look at what you made me do dad... I'm all fucked up and I can only cum from anal!
Corrines Painful Examination
Pretty 19-year-old Corrine submits to a painfully thorough very sadistic medical exam at the hands of Nurse Lolita
and the wicked "Doctor" Savage.
Intense Fetish #712 Electro Pain Training
Tawny said she was afraid of pain. What is she doing in Master Len's dungeon? She is learning to accept pain and
not be afraid. Tawny is whipped front and back. She has to put her tender nipple into the jaws of the pliers and d
not flinch. You will see her tender lips clamped and whipped untl she cums. The electro box is used and she is
shocked until she cries. It is like you are right inside her head getting every jolt. This one is for you the true BDSM
lover.
Kimberly Princess of Pain
Pain became her pleasure... Watch every stimulating moment of the young Kimberly's metamorphosis; from head strong captive to a willingly submissive student of pain and torture!!!
Maid For Master Prelude To Pain
Master Aaron needs a new maid and the interview procedure is an arduous one. Bebe Licious and Shadow try
to keep up with Aaron's rage but he always wins in the end. Bebe suffers an unbelieveably painful piercing and
Aaron even makes a string corset out of Bebe's big natural boobs. Not for the squeamish!
Medical Pain Sluts
Medical pain sluts goes behind closed doors to reveal...sex craved nurses and their helpless charges! Tender pussies are spread = clamped vibed and shocked. Heavy tits are roped groped whipped and tortured Sexy sluts cum and...
Pain 27
Can you withstand ninety minutes of S & M madness?! It's an hour and a half of whimpering chicks burnt nipples
endless suffering. But some people think your taste in erotic cinema is sick. Well guess what? They're right. But
that's okay you don't need them. You have plenty of friends. Your therpist calls them "the voices in your head...
Pain & Tolerance
4 hours of whippin' good fun! Non-stop spanking binding whipping and domination. This is filled with perversion and mayhem! Subjugate those pathetic little pigs and make them obey!!!
Pain Factor (4hr)
4 hours of stupendous spankin' and submission! Ball gaggin' hot wax pourin' paddlin floggin and other luzurious forms of pleasurable pain pack this DVD to the brim. Submissive slappin' good!
Painful Pleasures
Slave Derek Da Silva is put through an unbelievable set of pain adrenaline and endorphin pleasures that you just have to see to believe! Hard belly punching electric dildoes electrified needles and howling cumshots.
Sessions #8
Mistress Sonya takes Magdelyn to new heights of sensual awareness. Helplessly bound to an antique dental chair
Magdelyn is submitted to various forms of punishment. Electro-shock therapy and flogging are the order of the
day. However Magdelyn is subjected to a more intensified session as her breath is totally controlled while other
punishments are taking place...
As we wrote last April, porn gets into dangerous territory when it makes the appearance of a lack of consent out to be sexy. A common theme in porn is that many women will initially resist many of the practices it promotes, but if you persist, they will come to enjoy them. In other words, no means yes. This attitude seeps into many viewers...
Amazing.net: Making Nazis Sexy (explicit)
Plenty of movies have been made about the Nazi regime, but only the porn industry expects you to orgasm to it. Now on sale at Amazing.net/Goflix.com, you'll find Nazi Torture Castle (explicit link)...
Abusive Relationships and Porn: The Similarities (explicit language)
The National Domestic Violence Hotline website describes the characteristics of domestic violence and abuse:
Strictly Speaking Spanking, a magazine on sale at Bookends of Enfield, calls itself "entertainment for consenting adults". On reading the magazine, however, one could be forgiven for becoming confused about the role of consent in the entertainment.
SSS publishes a letter from Allison in California:
SSS publishes a letter from Cindy in California:
We invite you to look over these samples from Playboy and Penthouse and judge if you feel their messages are harmless or not. These images are reproduced from Against Pornography by Diana Russell...
Securing the rights of women in Afghanistan and Iraq appears to be a point of pride for George Bush. He has specifically criticized the Taliban for "public whippings of women". Ironic that we might effectively lose at home what we fight for abroad.
Kink.com: Bondage Porn Gone Chillingly, Cheerfully Corporate (explicit language)
Offerings at Kink include:
Whipped Ass
"As the title implies, you will be seeing extreme ass whipping. Our girls turn on each other and dish out the punishment like no other site out there."
Wired Pussy
"This site is shocking, literally. Our girls are put to the test when they are bound, gagged, and shocked over and over. It’s all in good fun of course!"
Sex and Submission
"Our powerless girls scream as they are tied up and forced to have sex over and over. Are they screams for help or do they really just want more?"
Hustler Cartoons: Racism, Misogyny, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Incest, Ridicule of Disabled People... (explicit)
Carol Smith, former porn performer, quoted in Not For Sale
Cited in Biting Beaver; see our reviews of essays in this book
"What I saw were women just like myself who were desperate, addicted to drugs, homeless, and I'm sure probably at least 80 percent of them suffered from sexual abuse as children. I saw them re-living their childhood experiences by getting into that industry. They were looking for attention, pleasing men, and being abused. And that's all they know.
Raffaëla Anderson and the French Porno Industry (explicit language)
The pornography industry is just a place where a lot of victims relive their abuse, where they can continue to destroy themselves like their abusers destroyed them. That's what is the most disturbing to me. The incest, rapes, child abuse and neglect that become the springboard for a lot of participants to enter the industry.
MacKinnon: Framing Torture as Porn Magically Makes It Acceptable
Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long professor of law at the University of Michigan, observes that torture and abuse typically get a free pass when they're framed as commercial entertainment. Some excerpts from "X underrated", published in The Times Higher Education Supplement (May 20, 2005):
Claims that porn is cathartic have been circulating since the 1970s. However, it is easy to conceive the porn might have less benign effects on viewers and sex crimes. We can, for example, hypothesize that porn conditions women to believe that rape is not a crime, or at least not a crime that they want to report. Certainly a major theme of a great deal of porn is that abusive sexual practices are normal and should be thought of as pleasurable. We imagine this would confuse many female victims of sexual assault as to whether they had been treated in an unacceptable manner...
Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn Confuses Young Men about How to Behave
There's a professor of psychology at UMass Boston who has done his doctoral dissertation and subsequent research on sexual aggression among young college males, and he's found that in dozens and dozens of interviews that young guys will sit there in a room with him, and they'll admit to or talk matter-of-factly about, "I did this to her, I did that, and we did this and that," and they never once refer to themselves as rapists, of course, and they never once refer to the behavior that they've engaged in as raping behavior, or in any way criminal. But this psychologist will tell you that he knows that if they were under oath in the court of law, they would be admitting to first degree felonies, but they think it's normal, perfectly natural herterosexual relations.
Porn Use Correlates with Infidelity, Prostitution, Aggression, Rape-Supportive Beliefs
In 1995, Human Communication Research reported on a meta-analysis of 33 different studies. Researchers found that "Exposure to pornography increases behavioral aggression. While there are many factors that influence this effect (for example, the content of the pornography viewed), the researchers conclude that a connection between exposure to pornography and subsequent behavioral aggression exists."
In 2000, researchers reported in Annual Review of Sex Research that "A relationship exists between frequent pornography consumption and sexually aggressive behavior. This relationship is especially strong for those with the highest "predisposing" risk level for sexual aggression. Those who are at high risk for sexual aggression and who frequently consume pornography have sexual aggression levels that are four times higher than those who do not consume pornography frequently."
Testimony in Minneapolis: Role of Porn in Child Sexual Abuse; Pornographers Perpetuate, Profit from Dysfunction
Whether or not pornography is causative of real abuse practices, it is fully and profoundly supportive of them... Pornography "de-sensitizes" men to the real and gross violation of a human being involved...
What is key to the issue is that permission, societal permission, is at the core of real paternal child molestation; and at the core of most marital and stranger rape...
Testimony in Minneapolis: "Pornography in the home is insidious. Girls pick up the message, they act it out, they don't know why they feel suicidal and crazy."
I believe a lot of battering of young girls has to do with sexual feelings, much of what comes every time in families where there was pornography. The father feels sexual towards his daughter, wants to repress that, and instead of taking responsibility for his addiction, which is out of control, beats his daughter. It is connected many times. I have had fathers open up to this when they come to family therapy and talk about it...
Time to Explore the Links Between Porn, Testosterone, Sexual Behavior and Violence
The Impact of Internet Pornography on Marriage and the Family: A Review of the Research
Influence of Porn on Sex Practices: Dispatches from the Field (explicit language)
Evidence Assessment: The Role of Pornography in the Physical Abuse of Women
Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography on Family Values; Women's Desire to Have Daughters Plummets
Study: Spanking Can Bring Problems Later (2/29/08)True to form, the porn industry embraced this 'abuse niche' some time ago, harnessing pain for profit. The industry may or may not have a conscious strategy to promote dysfunctional relationships within and between generations, but it does have a financial incentive to do so. As Jill Manning observes, happily married people consume relatively little porn: "...according to data from the General Social Survey in 2000 (N = 531), people who report being happily married are 61 percent less likely to report using Internet pornography compared to those who also used the Internet and who had completed the General Social Survey in 2000."
...Straus, co-director of UNH's Family Research Laboratory, conducted a study in the mid-1990s in which he asked 207 students at three colleges whether they'd ever been aroused by masochistic sex. He also asked them if they'd been spanked as children. He found that students who were spanked were nearly twice as likely to like masochistic sex.
He has bundled that study with three new ones that explore the connections between corporal punishment, coerced sex and risky sex. He presented all four studies this week at the American Psychological Association's Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships in Bethesda, Md...
Straus asked 14,000 college students in 32 different countries whether they strongly disagreed, disagreed, agreed or strongly agreed with this statement: "I was spanked or hit a lot before age 12." He also asked whether they had ever verbally or physically coerced an uninterested partner to have sex.
He found a big difference between students who said they'd been hit a lot before age 12 and those who said they hadn't. For every increased step on Straus's four-step scale of agreement, men were 10 percent more likely to have verbally coerced sex from a partner by insisting on sex or threatening to end the relationship if the partner refused. Women were 12 percent more likely to have done that...
The following movies are on sale now at Amazing.net/Goflix.com:
Bad Girls Get Spanked
Misbehavin' bitches get punished!
A Caning for Miss Granger
First Hand Will Spank
If you've been bad...It can feel so good!Bad girls deserve to get spanked so fill their cheeks with fire from the crack of your hand paddle or flog!
Intense Fetish 690 Naugty Girls Spanked 4
Six naughty girls. Six spanked butts. Six good spanking scenes. If you enjoy spanking videos yu will love this one. In each scene the girl is caught doing something naughty. She is given a good over the knee spanking. Some girls are extra naughty and get the belt taken to them. Ayako is spanked using two wooden paddles with holes in them!
Intense Fetish #713 Naughty Girls Spanked #5
Four good spanking scenes! If you enjoy spanking videos you will love this one! In each scene the girl is caught doing something naughty. She is given a good over the knee spanking! Some girls are extra naughty and get the belt taken to them. For most of these amateur girls this is the first time they have been spanked on camera and they are very cute!
Intense Fetish # 724 300 Strokes For Spanky
Three hundred hard strokes using six different instruments! With assistance from his slave Nicole Master Len picks three instruments from the wall!Spanky picks three more for a total of six. Spanky is given fifty strokes from each instrument. The strokes are spaced out every three to five seconds. There is only a small break between each new instrument. Every stroke is applied to her tender ass. See her ass get red and bruised with small blood blisters forming. Spanky is a real pain slut. You will see her writhe in pain and then smile in ecstasy.
Details from box cover:
Nothing Butt Spanking
Spanking lovers REJOICE for here are 6 sizzling spanking scenes for your perusal and enjoyment! Join us a Master Warlock and Master Ronnie Rock take 6 of the hottest submissives around and turn their asses into canvases fo corporal punishment. As the title says there's nothing BUTT spanking going on here in our latest release and thus your eyes will be filled with non stop visions of firm and tender female ass flesh being paddled spanked swatted and stung by the masters firm and unyielding hands of discipline.
Pain 25
Remember when your daddy would come home from work and beat the living shit out of you? Remember how your
flesh bruised and bled at the end of his belt? Some days you thought your worthless life was over. My how you
begged and cried. Good times. Damn good times. Well now you can relive those special moments. Take Pain #25
home today!
Spank 'em Hard
If you like all male hard spanking action you will love this video. This great new spanking video has 13 models in 8 hot scenes. Mark spanks lots of guys throughout the video. At the end they gang up on him and beat his butt good with leather straps. Lots and lots of sore red butts in this movie. Ouch!
Spank Me I'm Bad Girl
Spank My Tranny Ass
Bad bad tranny! Turn that he-she hiney red! Spank them good!
Spanked Roommates
And are they ever! There is some serious and extremely well executed corporal punishment. Caning padding spanking whipping.
Spanking Desires
Where pleasure meets pain-watch as Mistress Erzsebet teaches her submissives a lesson
Spanking Squirts
Please spank me harder!!!
Spanking Therapy...
Amazing.net stores also sell sadomasochistic magazines:
See also:
Herbert, Brooks and Osayande on Misogyny, Money and Power; Amazing.net's War on Women and Blacks (explicit)
Extreme Audition #6
What happens when you have a tiny little blonde walk into your studio? Well a lot of fun for Michael Kahn. This pretty little thing was in tears by the end of this video. She had no tolerance for pain and so it was great fun to beat her little ass.
Mistress In Da' Hood
If you can't beat 'em whip 'em good! And the fur is definitely flying as you watch the painful climaxes these all black gash lashers love.
New Blood
Hold on tight and smile Bitch! The only difference between a filthy cunt whore on the street and a porn star is the camera.
Pain #26
Can you maintain ninety minutes of masochistic mayhem?! Watch today's most worthless degenerates line up for abuse and debasement. On the street. In private. Female pigs have been stripped of all dignity. Listen to their wretched screams. Watch their distorted pained faces. Then jerk off to the brutal inhumanity of it all!
Now on Sale at Amazing.net: The Swirlies (explicit)
Now Showing at Amazing.net: The War on Relationships (explicit)
Casual Brutality #2
Red assed lasses trussed up and tormented!...
Domination
There is a fine line between pain and pleasure and that line has been more than blurred this time. Pain can be our biggest pleasure tapping into our sixth and seventh senses...taking our sexual experiences to a new realm and darker dimension where the rules as we know them cease to exist.
House Of Pain
House of pain collects plenty of top bondage babes and submissive sluts that have been spanked flogged hog tied gagged suspended caned strapped to walls doors closets the pantry roped to eye bolts spread and humiliated...
Pain In The Ass
The bitch has been naggin at you all fuckin day. Take out the garnage. Do the dirty fuckin dishes. Dont drink so much beer. Blah Blah Blah. Theres only so much a man can fuckin take so when its bed time make it your turn to be the major pain in her ass...
Now Showing at Amazing.net: The War on Privacy and Consent (explicit)
Blame It On Daddy
Look what daddy made them do. These chicks are fucked up and they just can't get enough. Adopt these sluts today make them call you daddy and see what they won't do!
Blame It On Daddy #2
Hi daddy look what I'm doing! Look at what you made me do dad... I'm all fucked up and I can only cum from anal!
Corrines Painful Examination
Pretty 19-year-old Corrine submits to a painfully thorough very sadistic medical exam at the hands of Nurse Lolita
and the wicked "Doctor" Savage.
Intense Fetish #712 Electro Pain Training
Tawny said she was afraid of pain. What is she doing in Master Len's dungeon? She is learning to accept pain and
not be afraid. Tawny is whipped front and back. She has to put her tender nipple into the jaws of the pliers and d
not flinch. You will see her tender lips clamped and whipped untl she cums. The electro box is used and she is
shocked until she cries. It is like you are right inside her head getting every jolt. This one is for you the true BDSM
lover.
Kimberly Princess of Pain
Pain became her pleasure... Watch every stimulating moment of the young Kimberly's metamorphosis; from head strong captive to a willingly submissive student of pain and torture!!!
Maid For Master Prelude To Pain
Master Aaron needs a new maid and the interview procedure is an arduous one. Bebe Licious and Shadow try
to keep up with Aaron's rage but he always wins in the end. Bebe suffers an unbelieveably painful piercing and
Aaron even makes a string corset out of Bebe's big natural boobs. Not for the squeamish!
Medical Pain Sluts
Medical pain sluts goes behind closed doors to reveal...sex craved nurses and their helpless charges! Tender pussies are spread = clamped vibed and shocked. Heavy tits are roped groped whipped and tortured Sexy sluts cum and...
Pain 27
Can you withstand ninety minutes of S & M madness?! It's an hour and a half of whimpering chicks burnt nipples
endless suffering. But some people think your taste in erotic cinema is sick. Well guess what? They're right. But
that's okay you don't need them. You have plenty of friends. Your therpist calls them "the voices in your head...
Pain & Tolerance
4 hours of whippin' good fun! Non-stop spanking binding whipping and domination. This is filled with perversion and mayhem! Subjugate those pathetic little pigs and make them obey!!!
Pain Factor (4hr)
4 hours of stupendous spankin' and submission! Ball gaggin' hot wax pourin' paddlin floggin and other luzurious forms of pleasurable pain pack this DVD to the brim. Submissive slappin' good!
Painful Pleasures
Slave Derek Da Silva is put through an unbelievable set of pain adrenaline and endorphin pleasures that you just have to see to believe! Hard belly punching electric dildoes electrified needles and howling cumshots.
Sessions #8
Mistress Sonya takes Magdelyn to new heights of sensual awareness. Helplessly bound to an antique dental chair
Magdelyn is submitted to various forms of punishment. Electro-shock therapy and flogging are the order of the
day. However Magdelyn is subjected to a more intensified session as her breath is totally controlled while other
punishments are taking place...
As we wrote last April, porn gets into dangerous territory when it makes the appearance of a lack of consent out to be sexy. A common theme in porn is that many women will initially resist many of the practices it promotes, but if you persist, they will come to enjoy them. In other words, no means yes. This attitude seeps into many viewers...
Amazing.net: Making Nazis Sexy (explicit)
Plenty of movies have been made about the Nazi regime, but only the porn industry expects you to orgasm to it. Now on sale at Amazing.net/Goflix.com, you'll find Nazi Torture Castle (explicit link)...
Abusive Relationships and Porn: The Similarities (explicit language)
The National Domestic Violence Hotline website describes the characteristics of domestic violence and abuse:
You may be in an emotionally abusive relationship if your partner:Punishment Porn: "Whether-She-Wants-It-Or-Not" (explicit)
* Calls you names, insults you or continually criticizes you...
* Punishes you by withholding affection...
* Expects you to ask permission...
* Humiliates you in any way...
You may be in a physically abusive relationship if your partner has ever:...
* Pushed, slapped, bitten, kicked or choked you...
* Used a weapon to threaten or hurt you...
* Used physical force in sexual situations
You may be in a sexually abusive relationship if your partner:
* Views women as objects and believes in rigid gender roles...
* Wants you to dress in a sexual way.
* Insults you in sexual ways or calls you sexual names.
* Has ever forced or manipulated you into to having sex or performing sexual acts...
* Involved other people in sexual activities with you.
* Ignored your feelings regarding sex...
Does your partner:
* Embarrass you with put-downs?...
* Act like the abuse is no big deal, it’s your fault, or even deny doing it?...
Does your boyfriend:
* ...[blame] you for “making” him/her treat you badly?...
* Try to control you by being bossy, not taking your opinion seriously or making all of the decisions about who you see, what you wear, what you do, etc.?
* Talk negatively about people in sexual ways or talk about sex like it’s a game or contest?...
FRIENDS & FAMILY
Yes, it is your business
...Say something. If you don’t, your silence is the same as saying abuse is ok...
ABUSE IN AMERICA
* 4 million American women experience a serious assault by a partner during an average 12-month period...
* 1 out of 3 women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
* 1 in 5 female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner. Abused girls are significantly more likely to get involved in other risky behaviors. They are 4 to 6 times more likely to get pregnant and 8 to 9 times more likely to have tried to commit suicide.
Strictly Speaking Spanking, a magazine on sale at Bookends of Enfield, calls itself "entertainment for consenting adults". On reading the magazine, however, one could be forgiven for becoming confused about the role of consent in the entertainment.
SSS publishes a letter from Allison in California:
"David, don't you dare spank me!" I shrieked, feeling only fear and none of the excitement I had when I came up with my crazy scheme...An SSS call for reader contributions:
"I-I'll never forgive you if... OWWWW!" Without warning, David's hand rose and fell, cracking sharply against the bare, right cheek of my quivering bottom. I thought my lover wouldn't spank me as hard as my father. But it wasn't a love tap he landed. It was a full-arm, full-force spank!...
"OUCH! NOT SO FAST! OWWWWW!" I screamed and really tried to squirm off David's thigh...
"YEEOWWCH! STOP IT!!" I screamed and shot a hand back to protect my blazing behind. David's failure to concede to my pleas or to say a word in reply scared me to death!...
"I told you you'd be sorry, didn't I?" David demanded to know, breaking his silence but continuing to spank around my shifting hand.
"OUCH! Y-YES DAVID! AND I AM SORRY!! REALLY I AM!! OWWWW!"
"Not as sorry as you're going to be!... Maybe you'll listen to me next time and not act like a spoiled brat... I love and respect you, Allison...but I won't stand by and let you do something dangerous and stupid. Do you hear me?"...
SSS publishes a letter from Cindy in California:
I hate being discipline spanked, but I can honestly say I earned every one of them...like when I'd foolishly let my car run out of gas... This time I knew I had gotten myself into even bigger trouble...Military Still Selling Porn on Bases Despite Law (explicit)
"Take down your jeans and panties," he ordered.
My face averted, I did as I was told. I've learned the hard way that hesitating or protesting is stupid. But I haven't learned how not to feel utterly juvenile and humiliated while I stand there in front of Rich, naked from the waist down while he scolds me, explains what I've done wrong, and tells me exactly what I'm about to get...
My shrieking became progressively louder and my bucking became progressively more frantic as he spanked me, and then a funny thing happened. Everything went black. I didn't pass out, it was more like all my senses shut down, and all I could do was wail out my misery...
I snuggled into Rich's arms, returning his affections, and promised not to do anything to make him spank me so hard again.
As much as I hate spankings, this is one of my favorite times. The punishment is over, all is forgiven, and the man I love has shown me that he loves me and cares for me...
We invite you to look over these samples from Playboy and Penthouse and judge if you feel their messages are harmless or not. These images are reproduced from Against Pornography by Diana Russell...
Securing the rights of women in Afghanistan and Iraq appears to be a point of pride for George Bush. He has specifically criticized the Taliban for "public whippings of women". Ironic that we might effectively lose at home what we fight for abroad.
Kink.com: Bondage Porn Gone Chillingly, Cheerfully Corporate (explicit language)
Offerings at Kink include:
Whipped Ass
"As the title implies, you will be seeing extreme ass whipping. Our girls turn on each other and dish out the punishment like no other site out there."
Wired Pussy
"This site is shocking, literally. Our girls are put to the test when they are bound, gagged, and shocked over and over. It’s all in good fun of course!"
Sex and Submission
"Our powerless girls scream as they are tied up and forced to have sex over and over. Are they screams for help or do they really just want more?"
Hustler Cartoons: Racism, Misogyny, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Incest, Ridicule of Disabled People... (explicit)
Businessmen at a meeting discuss a new doll product, "Baby Kick and Bleed with Bandage and Crutch". The child is shown saying, "Please no!" The caption reads, "...And we pitch it toward the battered-child market!"
Carol Smith, former porn performer, quoted in Not For Sale
Cited in Biting Beaver; see our reviews of essays in this book
"What I saw were women just like myself who were desperate, addicted to drugs, homeless, and I'm sure probably at least 80 percent of them suffered from sexual abuse as children. I saw them re-living their childhood experiences by getting into that industry. They were looking for attention, pleasing men, and being abused. And that's all they know.
Raffaëla Anderson and the French Porno Industry (explicit language)
The pornography industry is just a place where a lot of victims relive their abuse, where they can continue to destroy themselves like their abusers destroyed them. That's what is the most disturbing to me. The incest, rapes, child abuse and neglect that become the springboard for a lot of participants to enter the industry.
MacKinnon: Framing Torture as Porn Magically Makes It Acceptable
Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long professor of law at the University of Michigan, observes that torture and abuse typically get a free pass when they're framed as commercial entertainment. Some excerpts from "X underrated", published in The Times Higher Education Supplement (May 20, 2005):
A...magical framing move occurred in connection with the scandal surrounding Abu Ghraib. The photos of naked Arab men being abused by American soldiers while in their custody were routinely termed pictures of torture and sexual humiliation in the press. If the fact that the photos were identical to much pornography (although mild by its standards) was noticed at all, it was more often to excuse the crimes than to indict the pornography. Then a mass-market US newspaper was duped into publishing photos said to be of an Iraqi woman being raped by American soldiers that turned out to come from pornography. The public was upset by the pictures - until they found out that it was pornography. The newspaper apologised for not properly authenticating the picture.How Spread of Porn Could Give the Illusion that Rape is in Decline (explicit language)
The photos, had they been what they were thought to have been, would have documented criminal atrocities. The identical picture, framed as pornography, became masturbation material that a legitimate outlet had been cleverly tricked into putting on its front page in another blow for sexual freedom of expression. As pornography, the conditions of its making - who was she? how did she get there? was she being raped? - were not subject to inquiry. They never are.
The assumption that the violence, violation and abuse that is shown in pornography is somehow "consensual" is just that: an assumption. It coexists with much evidence of force and coercion, beginning with the materials themselves. Mass emails advertising photos of "hostages raped!" are spammed to internet accounts without generating inquiry into whether they are either. A website called Slavefarm offers women for sale as "sexual slaves", complete with contracts signing away all human rights and explicit photographs of the slave being tortured. Authorities stonewall...
Consuming pornography, with some individual variation, produces attitudes and behaviours of discrimination and violence, particularly against powerless others. By extension, the more pornography is consumed, the more difficult it will become, socially, to tell when rape is rape, even for some victims. An increase in sexual assault, accompanied by a drop in reporting and low conviction rates, is predictable. All this has happened...
Claims that porn is cathartic have been circulating since the 1970s. However, it is easy to conceive the porn might have less benign effects on viewers and sex crimes. We can, for example, hypothesize that porn conditions women to believe that rape is not a crime, or at least not a crime that they want to report. Certainly a major theme of a great deal of porn is that abusive sexual practices are normal and should be thought of as pleasurable. We imagine this would confuse many female victims of sexual assault as to whether they had been treated in an unacceptable manner...
Testimony in Massachusetts: Porn Confuses Young Men about How to Behave
There's a professor of psychology at UMass Boston who has done his doctoral dissertation and subsequent research on sexual aggression among young college males, and he's found that in dozens and dozens of interviews that young guys will sit there in a room with him, and they'll admit to or talk matter-of-factly about, "I did this to her, I did that, and we did this and that," and they never once refer to themselves as rapists, of course, and they never once refer to the behavior that they've engaged in as raping behavior, or in any way criminal. But this psychologist will tell you that he knows that if they were under oath in the court of law, they would be admitting to first degree felonies, but they think it's normal, perfectly natural herterosexual relations.
Porn Use Correlates with Infidelity, Prostitution, Aggression, Rape-Supportive Beliefs
In 1995, Human Communication Research reported on a meta-analysis of 33 different studies. Researchers found that "Exposure to pornography increases behavioral aggression. While there are many factors that influence this effect (for example, the content of the pornography viewed), the researchers conclude that a connection between exposure to pornography and subsequent behavioral aggression exists."
In 2000, researchers reported in Annual Review of Sex Research that "A relationship exists between frequent pornography consumption and sexually aggressive behavior. This relationship is especially strong for those with the highest "predisposing" risk level for sexual aggression. Those who are at high risk for sexual aggression and who frequently consume pornography have sexual aggression levels that are four times higher than those who do not consume pornography frequently."
Testimony in Minneapolis: Role of Porn in Child Sexual Abuse; Pornographers Perpetuate, Profit from Dysfunction
Whether or not pornography is causative of real abuse practices, it is fully and profoundly supportive of them... Pornography "de-sensitizes" men to the real and gross violation of a human being involved...
What is key to the issue is that permission, societal permission, is at the core of real paternal child molestation; and at the core of most marital and stranger rape...
Testimony in Minneapolis: "Pornography in the home is insidious. Girls pick up the message, they act it out, they don't know why they feel suicidal and crazy."
I believe a lot of battering of young girls has to do with sexual feelings, much of what comes every time in families where there was pornography. The father feels sexual towards his daughter, wants to repress that, and instead of taking responsibility for his addiction, which is out of control, beats his daughter. It is connected many times. I have had fathers open up to this when they come to family therapy and talk about it...
Time to Explore the Links Between Porn, Testosterone, Sexual Behavior and Violence
The Impact of Internet Pornography on Marriage and the Family: A Review of the Research
Influence of Porn on Sex Practices: Dispatches from the Field (explicit language)
Evidence Assessment: The Role of Pornography in the Physical Abuse of Women
Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography on Family Values; Women's Desire to Have Daughters Plummets
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