more statistics now available for the exploitation/liberation debate

"AN Australian study has cast doubt on the commonly held view that pornography shows women as nothing more than sex objects. . . .

"They noted such things as who initiated the sex, whose pleasure was paid attention to, whether people in the videos got to speak about what they wanted during sex and whose perspective the videos were presented from.

'We were surprised at just how active and in control the women were in these videos,' Prof McKee said today.

'This study suggests that mainstream pornography in Australia doesn't represent women as sex objects, it shows them as active sexual agents.'

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