Porn Isn’t Advertising
I would like to respond to the article “Porn With a Purpose” published in Vol. 32, Issue 5 of The Link .
Frankly, I’m embarrassed to be a citizen of a country where pornography is considered legitimate and effective means for advertising a lifestyle
change that is supposed to make one a more conscious, responsible person.
The author of the article [Erika Heales] claims the new [PETA] campaign is harmless. She justifies such by saying the women involved were not forced to undress—but that’s not the problem here. The problem is that PETA’s actions are just continuing to saturate our society with media-affirming women as sex objects.
Furthermore, while that might not be an issue if we lived in a world consisting entirely of mature, critically thinking adults, the fact remains that we don’t. Anyone who thinks that not a single child has been exposed to PETA’s female nudity campaigns is a fool.
And the message it sends to those children? While it might inspire thinking that fur is murder, it also inspires the message that a legitimate means of communicating a cause is not so much thoughtful discourse, but rather taking off your clothes.
PETA is their own worst enemy. Rather than acting like adults and inspiring conversation about animal-friendly social change, they resort to gore-happy scare tactics and female nudity, thus alienating themselves from individuals who would otherwise be sympathetic to their cause.
Time to grow up.
