Erotica_And_Pornography_-_Summary_strong_Response

Erotica And Pornography - Summary/strong Response Summary: In her essay, “Erotica and Pornography,” Gloria Steinem starts out by pointing out that humans, selfly proclaimed lords over the animal kingdom, are the only animals that have the mental capacity to separate ideas. Just as humans are the only animals to develop language, planning, memory, and invention, they are the only animals that struggle with their own separation of “work” and “play.” They’re the only animals that have adapted sexuality to something more than a procreational tool. It is a pleasurable, empathetic bridge to strangers. It’s often primarily a way of bonding, giving and receiving pleasure, and communicating emotion. She goes on to state that this exploration of sexuality has been greatly corrupted by the confusion of erotica and pornography. In man’s quest for pleasure, he has become degenerate, looking past the deeply personal, mutually consenting expressions of love, and has resulted to pain, torture, and bondage to fulfill his ultimately sadistic desires. Women everywhere need to break free from this downward spiraling chain of abuse and vulnerability. Women have a right to explore their own sexuality without succumbing to the domination of men. Sexuality is human, free, separate, and so are pornography, love, erotica, sexuality, out, animals, three, it’s, work, women, separate, pleasure, people, men, just, jim, humans, first, eros, agree, words, widow, way, two, truly, time, think, strangers, steinem, primarily, points, play, planning, own