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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-12-17 06:51 pm

[ SECRET POST #2906 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2906 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-12-18 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Listen, far be it from me to defend the porn industry, but that shit is unrestrained capitalism at its finest. The porn industry, in general, does not give a single shit about what they're making porn about. They'll just follow the trends and make what people want to watch.

That doesn't mean that sexism doesn't play a role! You could certainly argue that it plays a role in determining sexual desires and hence what the market wants. But I find it difficult to believe that the porn industry is enforcing patriarchal sexual practices through its production.

(Anonymous) 2014-12-18 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

I think we're actually in agreement?

Until recently, the ones who paid money for porn were overwhelmingly men.

So capitalism decreed that the market supplied porn that overwhelmingly catered to men.

ie enforcing patriarchal sexual practices through its production.

I never said they did it on purpose. On the contrary, they did it because that's what made the most money, and was the most mainstream. Isn't that the whole point?

(Anonymous) 2014-12-18 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, I guess I was reading "men control the porn industry" in the sense "men own the porn companies and make decisions about what kind of porn to make"

(Anonymous) 2014-12-18 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
They're not enforcing it, but there's no drive to challenge it, either. Capitalism is also lazy and opportunistic, people don't take risks with different strategies so long as the same old ones are turning just enough of a buck. This isn't a condemnation, either, I'm just saying that capitalism isn't that unrestrained.

(Anonymous) 2014-12-18 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
I think the industry is big enough that this isn't true.

Look at CFNM stuff - it started as, frankly, a really weirdo niche thing, and then the big companies noticed it getting popular and now pretty much all the big names have their own CFNM line.

Yeah, the large players aren't going to be innovators, but the conditions of the industry are such that they don't really have to be the ones to do it.