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French porn star piqued over Macron's desire to crackdown on X-rated films
A star of French porn films has challenged President Emmanuel Macron to meet with him and female porn actresses after France's leader aroused his anger by linking the porn industry to violence against women and inequality. Manuel Ferrara was furious over the president's speech at the weekend which outlined his plan to tackle violence against women and ensure equality between the sexes. According to Macron pornography makes women "an object of humiliation" and that action needs to be taken because porn films are now so widely watched among school children.
Ferrara hit back on Twitter and invited the president to discuss the issue. "I am involved in this industry that you are trying to demonize by making this kind of remark. I am ready to sit down with you and discuss a topic that by all accounts you know nothing about. I'm waiting for your call!" In an interview with France Inter radio the porn star continued to criticize the president saying he found his remark "shocking". "He demonizes the porn industry and is jumping to conclusions (faire un amalgame). It's the same with video games. It's like saying 'a teenager who plays Call of Duty is going to pick up a gun and kill everyone in his school'."
[...] On Saturday Macron announced his plan to extend the powers of France's broadcasting regulator CSA to cover X-rated films as well as launch an awareness campaign on pornography in secondary schools. "The CSA plays an indispensable role in regulating audiovisual content everywhere and stopping the most undignified behavior becoming a form of tacit propaganda," said the president. "Today we do not regulate access to video games, internet content and pornographic content that is increasingly available."
Also at BBC and Reason (archive).
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:45PM (4 children)
You're right, but not all that much right. For the purpose of my argument, it matters little how legal the viewing material might be. I did mention bestiality, as well. Beasts aren't recognized as having the capacity to consent to having sex with humans either. I believe that bestiality is illegal everywhere in the United States.
My whole argument was, "I don't like it, I don't watch it." Even on the hidden nets, where both are readily available, I don't go there.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @04:58PM (2 children)
Animals can consent to sex no matter what the so called justice system says. Animals show clear signs of arousal when they want to have sex with humans. Time to move to Wyoming [wikipedia.org] which had the good sense not to ban it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 30 2017, @06:57PM (1 child)
Do you speak from experience?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday December 01 2017, @12:00AM
He could be speaking from logic. I find it funny how pretty much everyone agrees (except organizations like PETA apparently) that non-human animals shouldn't be given the same rights as humans because they are different from humans, yet many people want to apply human standards of consent to non-human animals. How does that make sense? If we applied that logic consistently, all sex between non-human animals would necessarily be rape. A dog who humped someone's leg of its own volition would be a victim of sexual assault. And so on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @10:35AM
Animals not able to consent? You try telling the dog humping your leg that it is not able to give consent, so please stop doing that...