Starting in March 2007 the # 1 soap The Young & The Restless began a storyline of 20 year old married Daniel married to 19 year old Lili and he gets introduced to porn by his friend Amber who runs and stars in her own porn site. He becomes addicted and obessed with online porn until he progresses to watching hardcore videos even at work when he's alone in an office!
His wife eventually finds out and she's upset but she's presented as only being upset that he's looking at all of these beautiful women,not sexist harms to women! When Lili tells her father Neil who is a kind successful businessman that she's upset about Daniel looking at porn,all he says to her is I know it sounds bad,but a lot of people look at porn especially guys like it's no big deal! Amber's husband who doesn't know that Amber stars in her own porn site,says to her that his friend made a porno with his wife and another woman.
Daniel's friend Kevin tells him that he should ask Lili to watch the pornography with her to spice up their sex life. And Amber's friend Alison a character on As The World Turns,comes to visit Amber and Alison is a porn star in Vegas,but we don't learn this until she's back on As The World Turns.Alison used to be played by a different acterss years ago and she left and the character of Alison moved to another sate and so when she's reintroduced she's a crystal meth addicted porn star! On The Young & The Restless Amber and Alison do a sexy fake lesbian dance with their bodies close together while Amber's soon to be husband watches which comes directly from porn.
On As The World Turns Alison's older sister Emily who is really her mother because her egg was implanted into Emily's mother, and who is working as a prostitute for a short time even though she has a good job running a newspaper,watches Alison on a porn video that her John showed her and she realizes it's Alison. Emily's prostitution was presented as an empowering experience in some ways although she gets brutally beaten up by one of her John's.
Alison says to Emily when she mildly criticizes her for being in porn,that she has a mistaken idea of what working in a sex film is like,she says it's very professional and that she gets payed to do what the scene requires. She also said to Emily that Lance her porn agent and producer said to her that porn is adult entertainment and she said he gets to her like that. Alison eventually gets off drugs and out of porn. But the real issues about it of course were never addressed.
Disturbingly on the Young & The Restless fan message boards many women were saying that Lili was too prudish to watch pornography with Daniel,another woman said whats wrong with a little porn,and another woman said that she pops good old porn into the DVD player herself and watches it with her husband. Another woman said she knows plenty of people guys and girls who like to watch porn. Another woman says a lot of people like to watch porn men and women. And another woman says she loves porn and she unlike a lot of women watches it with her boyfriend and she said most men have to throw their stash away when they get married.
And a young guy on The Internet Movie Data Base which unfortunately also reviews hardcore porn videos including even Deep Throat, said he has never had a sexual relationship with a woman before but he's learned a lot of neat things about sex from pornography and that he knows a lot of couples who watch it together.
I wrote a protest email to The Young & The Restless and told them about Jackson Katz's great book The Macho Paradox and the important information he writes about the harms of pornography. I told them that maybe they can redeem themselves and get me be back as a over 20 year viewer if they do a show that addresses the sexism and woman hatred in pornography and women and children who have been victimized by boys and men who use it! They ignored me of course but then they lost a long time viewer for good! I haven't taped or watched the show since April!
Ann Simonton the director of Media Watch told me that research shows that when women watch porn it's usually because a male partner introduced them to it which is what you experienced yourself.
I don't know. Soaps and porn are both just offensive, woman-hating bullshit to me. So, why not soaps and porn, skipping along merrily, hand in hand? May as well throw in the Maury show since they share the same audience anyway.
How does the audience tolerate being insulted that way?
ing and degrading for men to ejaculate on their faces and they don't want it. A few years ago I found two different message board discussions posted in 2003 about where are men getting the idea to ejaculate on women's faces,and the majority of men and women said that it comes from pornography.
