I have to give it to Hugh Hefner and Larry Flynt --at least they are sincere peddlers of pornography. Not so Discovery Channel and the people who run their subsidiary The Learning Channel who've become champions of breedsploitation.
Here at culturekitchen we have written through out the years about how right-wing messaging around pregnancy and breeding falls more into categories of pornography than actual decency and morality. Forced pregnancy advocates --the so called "right to lifers"-- are more excited about the prospect of forcing themselves sexually on women through anti-reproductive rights legislation than they are about promoting family values. They may call it "saving the unborn" but what is at work is not just a fetus fetish, but a desire of total control, domination and subjugation of women.
So it's no wonder that this pornographic idea of women --that women somehow live only to breed on demand-- is something that's become a whole cottage industry in reality TV. A cottage industry completely controlled, it seems, by TLC.
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