Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 5531633" data-attributes="member: 2303">I'm from Sweden, generally seen as one of the most progressively feminist countries in the world. While I'm not a scholar of feminist history, feminism and its view of morality seems to have undergone a few stages over time here.In the 1960s, feminism was very liberal about sex and pornography. The large generations born in the 40s were coming into heir own and demanded more freedom, personal and sexual. This got to the point that Swedish Sin became something of an international scandal. In the 80s feminism in Sweden changed to become quite porn-hostile, seeing porn in any form as victimization of women. It became the law that porno magazines here had to be displayed in paper sleeves that hid the photographic covers and there was much talk of banning porn altogether. Around 2000 the attention shifted from women being victimized to children being victimized. Pedophilia is today the big scare; any kind of invasive legislation is all right as long as it will "protect the children".My personal analysis is that its the same generation who initially demanded sexual liberties for themselves who became first parents of teenagers in the 80 and then grandparents around the year 2000. They wished to control their childrens' and grandchildrens' emerging sexuality as older generations are always wont to do. It has much less to do with feminism or who actually is being victimized and much more with the generation born in the 40s being large, influential, politically active, and going through the different ages as all generations throughout history have. Morality is about older generations trying to control the sexuality of their offspring.All this upheaval and debate has had many beneficial side effects. The sexual revolution of the 60's did make changes that are still felt today and we have a much healthier sexual climate than we did 50 or 100 years ago. But morality and its history since the 60' feels too me like much more of a generation issue than a gender issue. People born in the post-war years have a disproportionate amount of influence because they are so many and so empowered. As they aged they went from the liberal views of youth to conservative concern for first children and then their grandchildren - and their views became the morals of the day.</blockquote>

Verification