Why do many heterosexual men hide their porn use from their wives and girlfriends? Because they know many women dislike it. They know the aggression & sexism in porn is offensive to many women. The shame some men feel tells something important.https://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/05/28/men-hiding-porn-use-anyway/ …
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Good point. Shame is not always a marker of complicity in genuinely oppressive practices & systems. As per your examples, it can be an expression of internalised prejudice, sex negativity, etc. Still, I agree with Murphy that porn users' shame can reflect recognition of its harms
I would find the whole anti-porn movement more convincing if (1) it didn't systematically misrepresent the psychological research on porn and (2) if it made some more nuanced recommendations about _which_ kinds of porn it thinks are most beneficial, fun, and un-sexist.
