Understanding Feminism's Relationship With Porn

Feminists of the 1970s and 80s were very much against pornography. It was viewed as a tool of the patriarchy to subjugate women. But feminists in the 2020s have a slightly different view.

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Pornography you also analyze through you know the evolution of feminist critiques of pornography and also just in your conversations with your students as well. because I think this works well with what you were talking about about sex positivity and feminism in the 1970s and 80s. you know we have to update it now right? because feminism in the 70s and 80s was also blanketly porn is patriarchal. porn is degrading to women. it's wrong etc. and I think now feminists intersectional not just white feminists have a positive and different view of sex work that is a marked shift from that perception in perspective I should say from the 70s and 80s. so do you mind taking us a little through that mini-history and that evolution as well and how pornography can be viewed in 2022 through a feminist lens or how you maybe view it as well? it's a broad question I understand.
so you're right that for especially American feminists but to a lesser extent British and Australian feminists in the mid-1970s onward came to see pornography as a kind of like a linchpin of patriarchy. they saw pornographic representation as to the training ground for men's subjugation and abuse of women outside of pornography. and outside the bedroom as well. so they for example drew a strong connection between sexual harassment in the workplace. or unfair unequal wages and pornography.