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“Pornography is the theory, rape is the practice” means that pornography causes rape and other violence against women. That's why I can get closer to this approach. Radical feminists believe that violent pornography is more than symbolic, since there are real victims used and abused by the makers of pornography
"The “ecstasy” of objects is their great proliferation and expansion; ecstasy as going outside of or beyond oneself: the beautiful as more beautiful than beautiful in fashion, the real more real than the real in television, sex more sexual than sex in pornography…". Jean Baudrillard
Introduction
In an overview we can consider that nothing's changed in the contemporary world culture compared with Ancient times about the essence of obscenity which is crystallized in the best way in pornography. The word Pornography, derived from the ancient Greek porne and graphos, means ‘Writing about whores’. Porne means ‘whore’, specifically and exclusively the lowest class of whores, which in ancient Greece was the brothel slut available to all male citizens. Although nowadays porn industry involves both sexual exploitation of males and females, yet women are still under a double oppression.
It is quite obvious that the word has not changed its meaning and the genre is not misnamed. The only change in the meaning of the word is in respect of its second part, graphos: now there are cameras—there is still pornography, film, video…. (1)
