By Nicholas Louis
…Continuing the discussion on sexual exploration I came across some interesting readings. The book Feminist Porn is a collection of writings by many authors. One essay in particular struck my interest deeply. I wanted to explore the realm of sexuality from the Feminist point of view. The essay that struck my interest, Every time we f*ck, we win: The Public sphere of Queer, Feminist, and Lesbian Porn as a (safe) space for sexual Empowerment. by Ingrid Ryberg. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn—that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world’s most lucrative and growing industries.
After reading this essay one question came to mind. How does sexual practice become sexual identity? I ask this question because I personally feel that in order to fully understand one must have an understanding of all facets within the realm of sexuality. In the essay she describes her disdain of the shift from a more sensual visualization of women in production to a more distasteful portrayal. This quote lead me to this speculation.
“Importantly, empowerment is not an issue of individual agency.”
Agency is the capacity of an agent to act in a world. The capacity to act does not at first imply a specific moral dimension to the ability to make the choice to act.
I chose this quote because of the way it translates into the boundaries of sexuality. Meaning that, from my understanding, empowerment is not just embodied by the amount of sexual partners a woman can attract. When the discussion of empowerment evolves into the dominance of sexual prowess then it is nothing but a sexual encounter and lacks dimension. All women poses the power of the sexy but the collective power of what a woman [female]is biologically is where the empowerment materializes. The foundation is just, in my opinion, the women [female] thought ability. Less glorification of the sexual or sexy.
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