pornography men possessing women andrea dworkin

It is not because someone is low class that someone is vile nor a slut.' 199-200, 1981, Andrea Dworkin, extending her definition from porn from 'writing about whores' to 'writing about vile whores' because porne was the lowest class whore in Ancient Greece. With the technologically advanced methods of graphic depiction, real women are required for the depiction as such to exist.' - Pornography: Men Possessing Women, p. The methods of graphic depiction have increased in number and in kind: the content is the same the meaning is the same the purpose is the same the status of the women depicted is the same the sexuality of the women depicted is the same the value of the women depicted is the same. The only change in the meaning of the word is with respect to its second part, graphos: now there are cameras - there is still photography, film, video. The word has not changed its meaning and the genre is not misnamed. In ancient Greece, not all prostitutes were considered vile: only the porneia.Ĭontemporary pornography strictly and literally conforms to the word’s root meaning: the graphic depiction of vile whores, or, in our language, sluts, cows (as in: sexual cattle, sexual chattel), cunts. It means the graphic depiction of women as vile whores. The word pornography does not mean “writing about sex” or “depictions of the erotic” or “depictions of sexual acts” or “depictions of nude bodies” or “sexual representations” or any other such euphemism. Graphos means “writing, etching, or drawing.” She was, simply and clearly and absolutely, a sexual slave. The porne was the cheapest (in the literal sense), least regarded, least protected of all women, including slaves. 'The word pornography, derived from the ancient Greek porne and graphos, means “writing about whores.” Pome means “whore,” specifically and exclusively the lowest class of whore, which in ancient Greece was the brothel slut available to all male citizens.

Pornography men possessing women andrea dworkin