Pornography
Porn has ruined sex
From Jezebel (via FLP). Anecdotal, but they’re the same anecdotes I’ve heard from countless young women. In a similar vein, after reading this post and thread at Feministing the penny dropped on what’s behind the “Yes Means Yes!” thing. Rape porn has become so ubiquitous that even normal regular everyday boys-next-door think that having sex [...]
If only the woman had been naked while he was beating her it would have made a cracking good porn film
Yesterday I came across a comment by Sam Genderberg that was so arresting I asked her if I could quote it here. She was referring to this video, which (WARNING) is very disturbing: Sam’s comment (just the first part): Making the blog rounds this week is a video of a man verbally and physically abusing [...]
Adsense for Conceptual Artists
Now here’s a coincidence. It so happens that I’ve been kicking around the idea of taking on advertising again to cover the site costs, and just this morning I was complaining to the other spirits here in the Smoking Lounge about the problems with Google Adsense. Me: The problem with Adsense is that it goes [...]
Twisty goes the scatalogical route so I don’t have to
I’ve discussed anal sex a number of times with guys my age (and I’m referring to lovers, not office mates), guys who grew up when I did, before the culture became pornified. For the men in my life, pornography was the Playboys they whacked off to as teenagers, which they outgrew when they began their [...]
Quick question: do people who like pornography think sex is dirty?
It’s a real question, not rhetorical. Here’s the background: I’m used to hearing pro-porn people, even some pro-porn feminists, say that anti-porn feminists don’t like porn because we’re hung up about sex, think sex is dirty, whatever. That’s always seemed like a groundless accusation to me. I like sex very much; I just don’t like [...]
Brief election-watching hiatus while I marvel that even liberal men don’t seem to realize that the women in porn are real human beings
I was following various election links when I found myself over at Digby’s reading this gem from last month: I’ll accede to the fact that romance novels may not be pornographic in the way that many people think of pornography. But they are indisputably very sexually explicit, which I guess many women find to be [...]
Worms
My blog is famous for thread drift (well, as much as anything about my blog can be famous), but I’m going to be pro-active here and start a proper post for the issues raised in this comment, which is threatening to massively derail the thread where it was originally posted. Which thread was approaching an [...]
All your questions answered (and by the way, I’m selling the blog to Focus on the Family)
For those of you following the saga of Alas and the Pornographer, Barry has spoken: Yes, he knew there would be porn. Yes, he understood that the internet rating for Alas would drive up the search engine rankings for the pornographer. No, he doesn’t think it’s such a bad thing. Yes, he should have been [...]
Okay, this is too much
I stopped reading Alas months ago because the anti-feminist quotient there was just too high. So I’m just now discovering what some of you may already know: Barry sold his domain to a pornographer, so now his blog is hosted alongside hard-core porn reviews. The deal is that the huge traffic to Alas — feminist [...]
Antidote
I pulled a muscle some time in the past couple of days while bending over backwards to maintain an even tone regarding pornography. I personally loathe the stuff, but in my capacity as Queen of the Universe it’s incumbent on me to be as fair and balanced as possible. Just like Bill O’Reilly. But if [...]
