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There’s no chance of equality while we tolerate rape as entertainment
The argument that pornography is a ‘free choice’ obscures the reality that it is nothing more than the recording, mass distribution and repeated airing of rape for profit, says NICOLAS LALAGUNA
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WHILE the #metoo campaign was at its crescendo in the mass media, I found myself struggling with the way most of the reporting chose to focus on one very narrow aspect of Hollywood’s role in the subjugation of women and girls.
Specifically, in among all the talk of the super-rich and beautiful people in Hollywood, there was a near deafening silence in relation to the other part of the Hollywood dream factory, the pornography industry.
Similarly, in the reporting of the allegations surrounding both Damian Green and US President Donald Trump there has been the same level of silence over the nature of what pornography is.
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