Episode 4 of our podcast series "Under our eyes"
In this episode of Sous nos yeux/Right Under Our Eyes, Dr Dines alerts about the ongoing crisis that the pornography industry generates.
'In a culture saturated by pornography, you cannot ignore pornography.'
There are references to pornography in advertisements, TV shows, fashion, sometimes even accessories for little girls. Yet, there seems to be little discussion about what is actually going on in the production of pornography, the consequences for women and the impact on children.
Dr Gail Dines is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s Studies of the Wheelock College, Boston. She has researched and written on pornography for more than thirty years and is the internationally acclaimed expert on the topic. Her book 'Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality' has been translated into five languages. She is the founder and president of Culture Reframed, ‘building resilience and resistance to hypersexualised media and porn’.
When are we going to acknowledge the elephant in the room?
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Donald Trump a créé les « faits alternatifs », le lobby pro-prostitution a inventé le « contre-rapport d'anticipation ». Le Strass et ses allié.e.s se lancent dans une nouvelle opération marketing, à grands renforts de données bidonnées, d'euphémismes indécents et de relents « anti-système » en toc. Le tout en s'appuyant sur un « contre-rapport » nommé « réponses à l'évaluation de la loi de 2016 » qui avait en fait été rédigé avant même la publication de l'évaluation...
Ces dernières années un soutien inattendu de la prostitution est apparu: Karl Marx. La revalorisation de la prostitution comme un travail serait le point culminant de la lutte anticapitaliste, non une invasion de la logique marchande dans la sphère de l’intime et encore moins une forme d’exploitation. Saliha Boussedra remet les choses en place. À partir des écrits de Marx, elle nous permet de mieux comprendre la position du philosophe et répond aux défenseurs de la prostitution notamment en remettant en question le concept de syndicats de la prostitution. Saliha Boussedra est docteure en philosophie à l’Université de Strasbourg. Chercheuse associée au Centre de Recherche en philosophie allemande et contemporaine, sa thèse de doctorat porte sur « La question de la prostitution à la lumière du Lumpenproletariat et des rapports entre les sexes chez Marx ». Ses recherches se situent dans une perspective interdisciplinaire faisant dialoguer les études marxistes et les études de genre. Son livre intitulé Marx, une pensée pour l'émancipation des femmes est à paraître aux Éditions sociales.
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It would make you rich and famous. It’d be pleasant and fulfilling ̶ pleasurable even. It’d satisfy men and women alike. It could even reduce male violence.
If we believed the media, films, series and social networks, we’d think that teenage girls work so hard in the hope of being admitted one day to an MBA in John Management offering them unique opportunities in brothels around the world. It makes one wonder if demand could ever keep up with all this supply...
Deep down, we know that the dominant depiction of prostitution is what it is: a mere fiction. And a convenient one: if we don’t see what is right under our eyes, perhaps it will all get better. In any case, it’s none of our business.
Or maybe it is?
Facing what happens right under our eyes: that’s what we tried to do. We invited journalists, researchers, activists, survivors that have fought for years for the rights of women not to be prostituted to express themselves. Each week, we’ll host a new speaker that will tell us about the reality of sexual and reproductive exploitation, the very one we don’t want to see or listen to.
Sous nos yeux, which means Right Under Our Eyes, is available on major podcast platforms: Spotify, Soundcloud, Deezer, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Audioblog. Some episodes will be in English others in French. If you enjoy it, please share and leave a review on Apple Podcasts so that others can hear these important voices.