A new essay in the latest issue of Adbusters Magazine by Douglas Haddow paints a scathing critique of pornography: not as a moral diatribe but from the perspective of a modern man deeply concerned with the negative effects of pornography on men as a result of isolating over-consumption, and lacking any significant analog to feminism. The essay called “Pornocalypse Now” opens with a well-known quote by George Orwell, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face \u2013 forever.” Haddow imagines what if Orwell, instead of having written a novel called 1984, had been born in 1984 and a young man today? According to Haddow, “Orwell would probably not be a down-and-out journalist, but more likely a disengaged copywriter \u2013 his dystopian prose taking on an entirely different shape and form: \u201cIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a woman\u2019s face.” The increasing prevalence of “abuse-porn” coupled with a decline in male sexual health paints a bleak future in Haddow’s essay. He muses that “what needs to occur now is the genesis of a new ‘masculinism’ \u2013 a philosophy of man that embraces the achievements of feminism and strives to reconnect with the real.”<\/p>\n GUEST: Douglas Haddow, writer and creative consultant with Adbusters Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n Read Haddow’s article here: http:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/magazine\/83\/pornocalypse_now.html<\/a><\/p>\n![\"pornocalypse](\"http:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/files\/magazine\/lead_images\/Adbusters_82_Porn.jpg\")
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