Pornographic Imagery as a Pedagogy of Prostitution

Abstract

This article uses the feminist interpretative framework as a theoretical approach to analyze pornography. From this approach, it is argued that mainstream porn is an ideological production typical of the hardest patriarchy, but its material configuration is also an economic production of neoliberal capitalism. Pornography is a social phenomenon that shows at the same time the worst face of patriarchal societies, but also the most brutal face of capitalist societies. Therefore, from this analysis, the debate about pornography is not a debate of a moral nature but of a political nature. The final objective of this article is to explain that pornography is a phenomenon functionally linked to prostitution to the point of becoming its authentic pedagogy.

Keywords

• pornography
• feminism
• patriarchy