Visiting Prof Condemns Porn

A fas­ci­nat­ing tid­bit from today’s Stan­ford Dai­ly: Texas prof con­demns porn.

Invit­ed speak­er Robert Jensen, a jour­nal­ism pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas, pre­sent­ed a fair­ly bit­ing crit­i­cism of the medi­um, warn­ing that the con­tent of pornog­ra­phy is “increas­ing­ly cru­el, degrad­ing and hos­tile to women.”

What I found most inter­est­ing at the end of the arti­cle is that no one want­ed to go on record as defend­ing pornog­ra­phy. Every pro-porn quote is anony­mous. Giv­en that there’s no real per­se­cu­tion of pornog­ra­phy lovers, I can only assume the desire for anonymi­ty is from shame. That says some­thing pret­ty pro­found about the extent to which they have doubts about the cause they advo­cate for.