Tavia said
Surely what male-oriented porn chooses to depict has no relevance whatsoever to real-world women (who presumably don't on the whole choose to consume it)?
It would have a relevance to women if it changed the way men related to them in real life. For example if a man thought that a woman saying she was a lesbian (for instance in a work context) meant she was up for a threesome. I do think this sometimes happens.
If men came away from other kinds of pornography thinking that 'no means yes' and so on, it could also affect real women in an adverse way. I think all these worries mainly apply to the sort of men who only have male friends, and don't really talk (or converse via email) to women that much. You know some men don't even talk to their wives about sex.
I don't think this kind of horrible effect ever happens with slash though, or with other explicit B7 material. I guess if slash did make a fan stalk an actor that would be an equivalent type of thing. And that would be really bad wouldn't it? I'm afraid I'm rather ignorant about whether this has ever happened, but I've never come across anything like that.
Alison