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Major Nikon

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2. A certain percentage of the population has a need to believe porn harms women

Reply to opiate69 (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 01:36 AM

Mar 2014

No matter how much information is presented to counter this belief, there are those who will continue to believe it. Just like all snake oil demand, there will always be snake oil salesmen, like Gail Dines, around to sell it.

Ronald Weitzer does an excellent job here of exposing Dines as an "academic" fraud.
http://maggiemcneill.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/weitzer-pornographys-effects.pdf

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Porn Stars And Prostitutes Picket Anti-Porn Conference [View all] opiate69 Mar 2014 OP

Yeah Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #1

"Choice" is a problematic word ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2014 #6

A certain percentage of the population has a need to believe porn harms women Major Nikon Mar 2014 #2

It's a job. In_The_Wind Mar 2014 #3

Here we go.. Upton Mar 2014 #4

*snort* LadyHawkAZ Mar 2014 #5

Indeed. Puritanism dressed up with a ton of wordy tautological noise Warren DeMontague Apr 2014 #7

^^^ This. Eleanors38 Apr 2014 #8