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jackystjames:

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*Steven is always a ham.

Constance Penley gave me a copy of her recently published, Feminist Porn Book, during my visit to UC-Santa Barbara with Steven St. Croix, Raylene, and Eddie Powell last night. We were there as guest speakers for her undergraduate film…

juliemeadows:

“Part of our effort is about promoting safe sex and we think that this is a bad influence,” foundation President Michael Weinstein said in a telephone interview. “We can’t and don’t want to control the content of the films in terms of any speech, but as a public-health entity, we are promoting…

It’s one thing to promote a message.  It’s another thing entirely to use unwilling and unpaid porn performers as guinea pigs and free labor to promote that message.

AHF has over $200 MILLION in revenue. Shouldn’t doing PSA’s, giving money to performers and porn producers who are willing to promote condom usage, and bankrolling “safer sex” videos be more than enough??

No, this isn’t about “performer safety”. This is about regulating porn out of existence. And shaming sexual performers into compliance.

kinkykinkshamer:

It bothers me when people say that Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon were working to criminalize pornography. This isn’t true. Their proposed statute used civil tort law, not criminal law. As John Stoltenberg explains in his essay “Confronting Pornography as a Civil…

Sorry, but no dice.

Using “civil rights” language to promote obvious censorship of legal speech amongst consenting adults is bad enough….but whitewashing away the direct effects of allowing any woman to claim treble civil damages against anyone who produces adult consensual sexual media on the grounds that such content is innately damaging to “all women”, all without even necessitating direct proof of damage done? That is simply insane.

The fact that only fundamentalist Christian right-wing groups backed this “ordinance” should speak loudly about its true nature. And the fact that some antiporn activists speak so fondly of it even today should also speak loudly about the inherent fascism of todays antiporn “feminist” movement.

kinkykinkshamer:

It bothers me when people say that Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon were working to criminalize pornography. This isn’t true. Their proposed statute used civil tort law, not criminal law. As John Stoltenberg explains in his essay “Confronting Pornography as a Civil…

Ummm…no.  Nice try at whitewashing, KKS, but Dworkin-MacKinnon was in fact outright censorship, of the most rancid kind. Allowing ANY WOMAN to file frivilous lawsuits against ANY form of speech they proclaim as “pornography” merely because it is held to violate “women’s civil rights” is the epitome of “content-based” restriction that has always been dismissed by any decent non-wingnut court of law.

Also…I find it hilarious that KKS attempts to differeniate the “civil rights pornography ordinance” from classical obscenity laws…by stating how classical obscenity laws are softer on actual sexual speech than their proposed ordinance!! In other words, outflanking the traditional Right FROM THE RIGHT, yet claiming their work to be “leftist”??

Then again, this is the same kind of claptrap that produces the likes of Gail Dines and Melissa Farley….so I shouldn’t be surprised, I guess.

imcuriousblue:

kinkykinkshamer:

It bothers me when people say that Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon were working to criminalize pornography. This isn’t true. Their proposed statute used civil tort law, not criminal law. As John Stoltenberg explains in his essay “Confronting Pornography as a Civil Rights Issue”:

Nothing like some outright revisionism about Dworkin and MacKinnon. The idea that their so-called “civil rights ordinance” did not constitute censorship because it used the instrument of civil law rather than criminal law is simply ludicrous. Any law that defines an entire category of speech or expression to be open to civil lawsuit is in fact state-sanctioned legislation against speech, in other words, state censorship, even if it invites non-state actors to penalize speech rather than direct employees of the state. Add to this the fact the Dworkin/MacKinnon ordinance had an incredibly broad definition of “pornography” (far broader, in fact, then the majority of obscenity law, especially with the post-Miller restrictions on the application of such), and its clear why the courts in Booksellers v. Hudnut were quite right to strike down the Dworkin/MacKinnon Ordinance as unconstitutional, directly violating First Amendment speech protections, and in many ways, a much stronger form of censorship than traditional obscenity law.

It is indeed unfortunate that to this day, there are many attempts to soft-peddle and propagandize for what was one of the most grevious attempts to silence sexual expression that the US has seen in recent decades. All too often, out of a misguided need to defend any and all things “feminist”. What’s especially sad is that these days, too many supposedly “kinky” and “sex-positive” folks are drinking this koolaid.

Some useful background reading, with good links to further background reading on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Booksellers_v._Hudnut

eladarling:

Fucking preach it. Stop assuming I’m too ignorant or blotto or otherwise incapable of making an informed decision about the career I choose to pursue. I fucking love my job.

missdanidaniels:

Women know what they are getting into when they get into this industry. And if you didn’t research, that’s your problem. Don’t ruin it for the rest of us to try to make yourself feel better for your own regrets. But hey, what do I know, “I was tricked into porn and didn’t know when I get tested it…

As we like to say down here:  CHHHHHHRRRRRUUUUCCHHHHH!!!!!!!

juliemeadows:

“OK boys, strap on your rubbers, it’s raining nonsense.

The Los Angeles City Council voted 9-1 to require male porn actors to wrap their rascals and wear condoms when they’re shooting. And when they’re filming.
The move is being closely watched by other filth hamlets looking to “protect” their…

Just go read the full post…and then react!!!