>>782354Ok, please elaborate what 'ideological state apparatus' means, how porn serves this (hypothesis 1), what it would take to disprove that (~h1), whether result on the ground confirms h1, and whether you have controlled for other variables.
Let me start with my own position. I define "part of ideological state apparatus" in the sense that the state requires it for ideological justification and reproduction. For example, advertising is part of the capitalist ideological state apparatus, because it justifies capitalist practices (which is served as pro-customer) and because it shapes someone's mind to think in terms of brands and products.
My hypothesis is that Porn is not part of the ideological state apparatus. People do not watch porn and then think that capitalism is normal. People do not watch porn and think that property rights is inalienable or think in terms of commodities instead of labour processes. People do not watch porn and start defending capitalist competitions between nation states.
The most common complain i hear about porn is that it distorts people's view of sexuality. That is a fair complaint. My counterpoint is that romance novels also do the same thing by giving people unrealistic expectations about the other sex, but it would be pretty absurd to label Pride and Prejudice as "part of the ideological state apparatus". This is why it is absurd to import concepts from political economy into interpersonal relationships because the latter is dominated by frankly vibes based, unquantifiable and normative concepts (such as what a proper relationship between the sexes should look like).
My ~h1 would be simple: if someone can demonstrate that watching porn leads to internalization of the capitalist logic then my theory would be wrong. I am pretty confident that i am not wrong though, otherwise we would not have so many porn threads in siberia