“It is like being raised in a red room, pulled out of the red room and being asked to describe the colour red!” These words were spoken by Caroline Heldman at the Tedx Youth conference in San Diego as she was attempting to make a point about sexual objectification being more amplified in the media yet the young people have lost the ability to identify it. Sexual objectification is seen as the norm in today’s society. The new culture has increased the objectification of women in Television, Movies, Magazines and Videogames. In which Heldman believes technology is to blame for the hyper-sexualisation of women. In her speech, pornography was not mentioned as an objectifying medium in media. This is why I am taking it upon myself to analyse if visual pornography is truly objectifying or empowering to women.
The argument of if pornography is objectifying or empowering to women has been ongoing for plenty decades. To examine if pornography is indeed empowering or objectifying we must first have to have a grasp of what pornography truly is. The
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It is a process that fosters power in people, for use in their lives…by acting on issues that they define as important.” (Page and Czuba 1999) In its most extensive sense, empowerment can be seen as an expansion of freedom of action and choice. Basically, women have the power to choose if they want to be a member of the pornography industry or if they want to view such pornographic acts.
The right to work in pornography is a direct extension of the saying “A woman’s body, a woman’s right.” Women have the power to choose what happens to their bodies even if society is not fond of such acts. Mill maintains that a person should be able to do what he or she wants as long as it does not bring harm to anyone else. He