A question we could ask ourselves is does pornography objectify women or do women objectify themselves? Many people would have different answers to this question because no woman wants to be told that they objectify themselves. Honestly though, the women in the porn industry are proud of what they do, they like being the object that people look at to give themselves pleasure. These women get pleasure out of other people desiring them. Of course, these women do not just come out and say that they objectify themselves but when you really look at everything within the porn industry that is what conclusion most people would get out of it. Take Jenna Jameson for example. She made a career out of being a porn star which is usually short lived, but she is a multimillionaire. She has her own products and is able to maintain her career. The video we watched that included her in it showed her with products that had been molded from her own body for other adults to use. In my opinion, I couldn't even imagine the thought of molding my body parts to make a product for other people to enjoy. It sounds disgusting and disturbing to me. Jenna Jameson loves her career and she loves that her "fans" use her products; she loves all of the attention she gets. Is this attention considered negative though? She only gets attention because others say that she is "hot" or "sexy". They only see her as a sex object. No one talks about her intelligence, for all we know she has no knowledge at all. An interview she had with Fox 411, she seemed like she was on drugs and she seemed like a complete ditz. I watched about 2 minutes and couldn't handle any more. Everything she said, she sounded so childish and unintelligent. Whether it was the drugs talking or not, I feel as though she has been so accustomed to the porn industry where they are meant to act in a childlike matter for the most part that it has come into her reality. This picture below is from an article on her about her accomplishments coming to an end. The article,
Jenna Jameson Still Works in the Adult Entertainment Industry But Lies About It, talks about her wanting her new book "Sugar" to become an all time favorite, but every time she is on the air or on TV she seems to be intoxicated. She definitely sounds like it in her interviews. She has had her children taken away from her and she is being criticized so much for all of she appearances on television. She was maintaining a stable career unlike most in the porn industry but, from reading the article it sounds as though she tried to stop making videos. Obviously, that has not worked for her since she has been seen on a website on the internet that does not make much money. What does it take for women to realize that they could be doing better things in life? She could have her children and have a successful book if she just "grew up" and saw herself as being able to be knowledgeable and accomplish more than just things throughout the porn industry.

Men being interviewed at a porn event had said that "women are just there as sex objects, they're more like an object than a human being." Are women okay with being considered an object? Not even a living thing.
In pornography, women are submissive, they are basically the other partner's "bitch", and they seem to have no say in anything. This goes into the topic of women faking orgasms in porn videos. Why fake it? These women feel as though how they feel during sex doesn't matter, they are only there to pleasure the other person. This also goes along with the theory of women feeling as though they need to pleasure someone else and they get pleasure out of being desired by another person. This is probably the reason for porn stars. They enjoy being desired, they don't care about their feelings. At least, that is what it seems like. These women don't seem to care what other people think of them. Nor do they seem to care if they are happy with what they are doing because that is what today's culture is telling them. Today's culture doesn't even seem to have a female fantasy, nor does it show that women should be caring about how they use their bodies. A women should not feel comfortable selling her body to other people and being known as a sex object. In today's society, when you are seen as a sex object, that's all you become. Nothing more, just an object. Not a human being, just an object. Not a living organism, just an object. I see something very wrong with that.
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