The above photograph depicts one protest as a part of the feminist anti-pornography movement. This directly relates to Rubin’s term “sex panic” due to the moral, social, and political panic that was happening around the porn industry. The moral panic of pornography was that children would be subjected to these pornographic images and that pornography is objectifying to women. Further, the right does not support pornography due to their belief in family values and the use of sex for procreation. This resulted in multiple protests and calls for legislation to prevent pornography.
Asexuality complicates this objection of pornography because asexuality does not conform to sexual hierarchical roles and can be seen as deviant. At the same time, asexuality is a lack of sexual behavior and therefore would likely not partake in the watching of or production of pornography.
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Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,” in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality , ed. Carole S. Vance (Boston: Routledge,1992), 143-172.
Ela Przybylo, “Introducing Asexuality, Unthinking Sex,” in Introducing the New Sexuality Studies , 3rd ed., eds. Nancy L. Fischer and Steven Seidman (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), 181-189.