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> However, says Dr Dines, one thing's for sure: "If these women [who watch violent porn] have been abused, [they] are actually digging the trauma further into t

by twiss 9y ago

> However, says Dr Dines, one thing's for sure: "If these women [who watch violent porn] have been abused, [they] are actually digging the trauma further into the firing and wiring of [their] neurones, driving it further into their limbic systems, and porn delivers a massive hit to the limbic system because you're watching someone going through the same trauma you did." I'm not a Dr of any kind, but I think this is only true if they are associating the things that are happening in the porn with something negative when watching it. The whole theory behind EMDR [1], as far as I understand it, is that you can re-associate negative memories with more neutral (or positive) feelings. That might in fact be what some of them are doing: re-associating a negative memory with something positive, which might have a therapeutic effect. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...

Normal_gaussian 9y ago
> Dr Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College, Boston, and a prominent anti-porn campaigner. > Until we [...] have actual empirical evidence So she claims shes a scholar, and shes calling for empirical evidence. This piqued my interest, she's probably worked on some papers in this area - why doesn't she have empirical evidence? Is there a good reason it is hard to come by? I looked to her website [1] and then through google scholar, and turned up nothing. She's written a ton of books in which shes expressed her opinions but I can't find her producing any work that isn't reading and spinning others' research - if she has then promoting the fact is far from the top of her agenda. As it is I'm disappointed. There's an interesting effect at work yet neither of the experts Vice have had comment on the issue have experience with it and have just spouted off their media lines. [1] http://gaildines.com/ http://gaildines.com/

by twiss 9y ago

Normal_gaussian 9y ago

> Dr Gail Dines, professor of sociology and women's studies at Wheelock College, Boston, and a prominent anti-porn campaigner. > Until we [...] have actual empirical evidence So she claims shes a scholar, and shes calling for empirical evidence. This piqued my interest, she's probably worked on some papers in this area - why doesn't she have empirical evidence? Is there a good reason it is hard to come by? I looked to her website [1] and then through google scholar, and turned up nothing. She's written a ton of books in which shes expressed her opinions but I can't find her producing any work that isn't reading and spinning others' research - if she has then promoting the fact is far from the top of her agenda. As it is I'm disappointed. There's an interesting effect at work yet neither of the experts Vice have had comment on the issue have experience with it and have just spouted off their media lines. [1] http://gaildines.com/ http://gaildines.com/