By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Over the course of reading Amanda's responses to Garance's article, I got a sense for what could be called the "I'm unhappy with porn because I'm pro-sex" position. While neither Amanda nor I actually support raising the age of consent for porn to 21, I liked the following argument very much:
I think raising the age of consent to be in commercial porn to 21 could have to potential to protect youthful sexual experimentation. At least in the case of “Girls Gone Wild”, the presence of Joe Francis and his cameras has turned things like Mardi Gras from occasions of joyous debauchery to mean, misogynist events that aren't nearly as fun as they used to be. It's a shame that there's no space for kids to experiment with some public debauchery anymore without some dick shoving a camera at them in the process of making porn movies that are punitive in nature (those sluts deserve to be humiliated wank wank).
