Tag: pornography
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Oooooooh This Makes Me Mad
A not-very-thought-provoking read on Al Jazeera (to their credit–in the Opinions section–by Naomi Wolf: “Is pornography driving men crazy?” An interesting title, actually, because she doesn’t really talk about what she means by “crazy” in the first place. I think “crazy” here might be retranslated to “those who willingly watches pornography.” I’m frankly hoping someone…
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I’m Not an “Ordinary Person”
I really want to fill out the questions in this survey from Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, and Martin Baker about the ordinary person’s use of and relationship to pornography. For maybe the first time ever, some serious researchers (in England) are getting together not to talk about how good or bad porn is, or whether…
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Finally, A Response to the Atlantic Article
1) Hey, all you out there, nominations for the 2011 Feminist Porn Awards are being accepted! Go nominate somebody! Ooooh I’m so excited! 2) I haven’t said much about the whole Natasha Vargas-Cooper in the Atlantic thing yet, because, frankly, I didn’t take the time to read the article until today. The article “Hard Core”…
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Emotional Remove and Porn Fantasy, Part II
>Most of our cultural experience, through media in general and porn in particular, does little to dispel the difficulty of incorporating emotion into our sexual lives. Particularly since we all know that porn is supposed to be bad and that we’re not supposed to be watching it, that remove we impose upon ourselves early on…
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Emotional Remove and Porn Fantasy, Part I
This is part one of a two- or three-part series of musings about porn, sex, and emotion. The series isn’t finished yet, so I’m publishing it in parts to keep the length down. Comments and feedback would be much appreciated. I believe above most other things in the necessity of fantasy. Whether because of the…