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if you enjoy porn and you do this already, great. and if you don’t, why not? (protip: if you said yes really easily, it could be bc your race, body size, and sexuality are not marginalized)
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for some of us, we just don’t have porn that fully represents us yet. but for those of us that do, do we avoid seeing ourselves in porn due to being conditioned to only relate to thin straight white people in porn? is it connected to shame about the kind of sexual fantasies that arouse us? are we struggling with internalized homophobia or fatphobia or racism so much that we are afraid of creating new pathways to arousal that include the non-straight, non-thin, and non-white representation we don’t see in mainstream media?
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we can only be what we can see/imagine. our imagination is fed by these visual representations and sexual fantasies are constructed largely with images, even erotica. if you are avoiding seeing yourself in porn, why? if you’re having a hard time seeing your body as arousing or desirable or erotic, seeing your body represented in porn can help with that. this also helps heal trauma by encouraging embodiment during arousal in eroticizing the marginalized body. our lack of desire to see ourselves represented in porn can be rooted in self hate or shame.
if you want to diversify the bodies you are aroused by, it can help to add different bodies and sex scenes into your porn mix. seeing fat bodies as sexual and desirable normalizes fat bodies as arousing.
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looking for ideas on where you can go to support your favorite sex workers? where do you go to watch your queer fat brown porn? which fat porn stars do you follow? (i asked a question like this earlier this week and many folks responded requesting my survey results bc they’d like to see themselves represented in porn. so share away!)
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Unrelated but irritating:
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Yes, look at all these woke brown historical fatties from the 15th century:
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Only white people are and have ever been thin! Blame colonialism and white supremacy for everything wrong ever!