"One of the most important lessons we can learn from pornography is about the process of commodification within capitalism. Critics have long observed that in capitalism everything is commodified, everything is turned into something that can be bought and sold. Pornography takes the most intimate, the most private spaces of our lives, our sexual experiences, our connections to other human beings at that most basic level, and sells them to it."
"I think we often make the mistake of thinking that pornography is just an image of people having sex. What pornography is is it's a world view. It is an ideology. It is a way of understanding relationships."
"Pornography meets a real need that people have to somehow break out of their sexual loneliness, their sexual isolation, their failure to connect sexually with somebody . . . . And as with every other basic human need that gets inappropriately dealt with, it becomes an opportunity for private enterprise to come in. And that's what private enterprises do. They make money off of human needs and wants and desires. And in the process, of course, they begin to shape those needs and desires."
The Price of Pleasure (2010)
Not an easy documentary to watch, but I think porn would seem a hell of a lot less attractive to people if they did check this out. Or maybe it would just be making the choir puke, I don't know. Some folks have bulletproof paradigms--especially when it comes to how they mistreat other people.
