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Pornography

I recently went to a viewing of "Slippery Slope," by Sarah Schenck a very funny yet, for some, disturbing sexual comedy. I found myself laughing at every instant that some sexual innuendo, but soon after found myself asking why? I didn't understand why I laughed at something I would normally find degrading (Pornography). But then I realized, I do not know if I think that pornography(excluding violent pornography) is something that should be thought of as yet another tool that men use to control women. I mean, when one looks at the dominant role in a sex film, one sees that it is the women. The women has an infinite amount of ways to coordinate her body with another in order to satisfy her viewer; and at that she embraces who she is physically and mentally. She says to the world "I'm going to use my body to seduce you." I think that "Slippery Slope" did and excellent job of strengthening women as whole, because it embraced another group of women and illustrated how powerful the female body can be.

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