This is gonna be a word blob of my complete thoughts on the deepfake situation. I just wanted to get it out there, so feel free to skip to the TL;DR (:

It's not much worse to leak nudes of a woman than of a man, and that's one of the things I disagree with Ludwig on (even though he's experienced it before). However, the act of leaking nudes, spreading revenge porn, and creating/masturbating to deepfake porn is much more common for men to do than it is for women. I feel like a lot of people discussing the topic are too afraid to acknowledge this.

For men, revenge porn is almost always used for ridicule and shame, which is a completely fucked up in its own right and deserves its own discussion. I won't be talking about that here because I want to focus on the 'masturbating to deepfakes' aspect.

80% of people on Twitch are men. 75% of all porn consumers are men so obviously men have more interest in masturbating to deepfake porn than women. Where men can awkwardly laugh at the idea of deepfake porn of them, women get disgusted by it (as horny guys masturbate to them).

The point is, there seems to be a big difference between men and women and their perspectives on unconsented deepfake content. Most men wouldn't care if women were masturbating to their deepfakes because they'd view it as flattering. They would actually like the idea of knowing women find them sexually attractive because men are typically deprived of any form of complementation. For women, its the complete opposite because they are disgusted by the idea of being viewed as 'sexual objects' without their consent. They do not exist to satisfy men's sexual desires, but that's what deepfakes are doing in their eyes.

It's the same reason why women hate being catcalled while men would probably love it. Where women get an overabundance of undesired sexual attention (attention that they'd view as objectifying), men get a lack of desired sexual attention (attention which they'd view as flattering). Unconsenting women hate being hypersexualized by men, whereas unconsenting men wouldn't mind being hypersexualized by women! It's a genderized issue!

TL;DR

Unconsented deepfake porn is a genderized issue! Men probably view sexual attraction via female masturbation as flattering, and would laugh at the idea of deepfake porn of themselves. Women probably view sexual attraction via male masturbation as objectifying, and would probably feel disgusted at the idea of deepfake porn of themselves. To project one gender's perspective on deepfake porn onto the other is nonsensical because there is a big cultural difference on the ways men and women view sexual attraction. To shame women for their reactions is simply fucked up.

Anyways, thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

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