In the Mazan rape trial, the 51 co-defendants, all different and yet united by the same crime, have very little in common. For ten years, Gisèle Pelicot was raped nearly a hundred times by ordinary people convinced that women are objects. How could so many male individuals within a 50 kilometer radius normalize rape in this way? Since the opening of this extraordinary trial, we have talked about chemical submission, patriarchy, rape culture… but little has been said that it was also the trial of pornography. And the industry in this sector has clearly been forgotten. Only one column, published at the end of November in “Le Monde”, recalled the crucial role of porn in the normalization of sexual violence.
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Before the Vaucluse criminal court, psychiatric experts spoke of a real “addiction” to this content for some. One of the co-defendants in the box saw fit to mention that he liked to watch “people being sodomized in their sleep” to
