Tag: taboo
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Fauxcest Porn: Why Are Women Into That?
Another interesting detail that popped up in a lot of the conversations I had with people at AVN/AEE and XBIZ last month was the popularity of “fauxcest” porn these days–which I just wrote about for Refinery29! Fake incest in porn is far from a new phenomenon, with Kay Parker starring in Taboo in 1980, and most…
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Why Sex and Porn Matter
In a series of conversations, some of them with a troll on a Village Voice article about Stoya, and others after the fact with friends about my anger and passion on the subject of sex-positivity, I’ve realized that while my reasons for writing impassioned essays and graphic novels and making films and continually making myself…
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Emotional Remove and Porn Fantasy, Part III
But ah, that’s the thing. Porn may, for all abstract purposes, lie in the middle of this emotional/sexual spectrum as a safe zone for emotional and physical and fantastical experimentation, but that does not mean we treat it that way. For several reasons. Firstly, porn is, we all know, pure fantasy. It’s not real. Or…
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Family Time in LaLaLand
Sitting around the table trying not to be too obviously the black sheep yesterday (by which I mean pretending that the perverted and inappropriate half of my brain wasn’t running on high as I sat across from my grandmother), I started thinking about family and what it means in the larger world versus the porn…