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The Week The 8 Foot Staff Boomeranged: Shelley Lubben’s...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:05:17 -0400

The Week The 8 Foot Staff Boomeranged: Shelley Lubben’s Awesome MegaFAIL

Some people have really bad days.

And some people have really, really BAD days.

The week that…

The Great Feminist Porn SmackOff, Part Deux: Gail Dines Gets Cross-Examined

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:39:02 -0400

OK…I promised a continuation of analysis of the hijinks that took place last Friday in the 2257 trial, and here it is. The entire day’s worth of events is courtesy of AVN’s Mark Kernes, whose article can be found here.

We pick it up right when Gail Dines,…

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When The 2257 Trial Collides With The Great Hartley v. Dines Feminist Porn SmackOff

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:56:29 -0400

I know that the headlines are being dominated now by the latest Pentagon Papers antics of Gleen Greenwald and Edward Snowden, but a smaller tempest in a teapot which could have some major impacts on adult media is currently ongoing.

The case is Free…

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DOJ Presents Its 1st Expert Witness in 2257 Trial

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:33:31 -0400

juliemeadows:

I’m reading this and the question most prevalent in my mind is, “What adult industry ‘personnel’ has Gail Dines ever interviewed?”

http://business.avn.com/articles/legal/DOJ-Presents-Its-1st-Expert-Witness-in-2257-Trial-520873.html

Good Girls Like It Bad: Learnin' About 'Dem Feminist Porn

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:27:38 -0400

Good Girls Like It Bad: Learnin' About 'Dem Feminist Porn:

jackystjames:

Photo by: Jeff Koga

*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…

Lydia/Julie Meadows: Michael Weinstein Statement in Bloomberg Article

Sun, 26 May 2013 06:56:14 -0400

Lydia/Julie Meadows: Michael Weinstein Statement in Bloomberg Article:

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.

Response To An Antiporn Whitewash of MacKinnon/Dworkin's "Civil Rights Ordinance"

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:17:09 -0400

Response To An Antiporn Whitewash of MacKinnon/Dworkin's "Civil Rights Ordinance":

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.

Sex Not Gender: Busting Myths About Andrea Dworkin: No, She and MacKinnon Didn't Try to Criminalize Pornography

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:10:31 -0400

Sex Not Gender: Busting Myths About Andrea Dworkin: No, She and MacKinnon Didn't Try to Criminalize Pornography:

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.

Kinky Kink Shamer: Busting Myths About Andrea Dworkin: No, She and MacKinnon Didn't Try to Criminalize Pornography

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:56:03 -0400

Kinky Kink Shamer: Busting Myths About Andrea Dworkin: No, She and MacKinnon Didn't Try to Criminalize Pornography:

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

Gail Dines'/Stop Porn Culture's Latest Poop Fest: Throttling Routledge Press' Porn Studies Journal Because Sexual McCarthyism...errrrrrr, "Academic Bias"

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:05:34 -0400

You know…I figured that since her vaunted government in Iceland who was pushing her antiporn ban legislation got whacked in recent elections, you’d think that Gail Dines would see fit to take a chill pill and rest herself for a spell.

Unfortunately…or…

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: FUCK YOU EXPORN GIRLS TRYING TO "SAVE THE WORLD" RANT

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:57:46 -0400

: FUCK YOU EXPORN GIRLS TRYING TO "SAVE THE WORLD" RANT :

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!!!!!!!

"Comparing porn performers to animals in mainstream movies? I was never caged and made to act by some..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:21:37 -0400

“Comparing porn performers to animals in mainstream movies? I was never caged and made to act by some master/keeper without my own voice to consent. It is dangerous to refer to legal sex workers in this way. Michael Weinstein has stated repeatedly that performers don’t have a choice. This is the argument anti-porn people use to conflate porn performance with sex trafficking. It’s insulting and irresponsible and I appreciate Larry Elder pointing it out during his interview with Weinstein. No one is forced to work in porn. No one has a gun held to their head. People have a choice. The propaganda and lies are thick.”

- http://www.juliemeadows.com/blog/2013/04/11/doug-offers-his-perspective-on-ab-332 (via juliemeadows)

Lydia/Julie Meadows: L.A.’s Insane War on the Porn Industry

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:49:24 -0400

Lydia/Julie Meadows: L.A.’s Insane War on the Porn Industry:

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!!!

"ATTN: Assembly Member Roger Hernandez: If you Google my “Dave Cummings” stage name, you’ll see that..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:47:49 -0400

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ATTN: Assembly Member Roger Hernandez:

If you Google my “Dave Cummings” stage name, you’ll see that I am Hall of Fame porn performer Dave Cummings,and an 18-year veteran of the Adult Film Industry who also has been a Producer and Director for over 10 years. And, I am a regular voter in California.

I’m also a former military officer of 25 years active duty, and recipient of The Bronze Star; and, I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration.

From an economics viewpoint, enactment of AB 332 seems like it could devastate far too many jobs in California, lower sales tax income and income tax payments to the Great State of California, and cause a costly State enforcement/bureaucracy and funds to implement a silly system that seems unnecessary given the present MORE THAN SATISFACTORY, and rigidly followed, medical testing procedures ALREADY in place for us performers.

In my opinion, passage of AB 332 innately has the potential to push MANY porn productions “underground” or out of California, possibly stripping us performers of some of the workable protections we presently have from the testing regimen already in place. Passage of AB 332 could also possibly result in lessened/lax future compliance by performers of present testing Industry mandates and health protections for actors/actresses, something people like me and many other tax-paying performers and voters are strongly against.

Want an avenue to temporarily side-step your hearing? Postpone it until the Constitutional and other challenges presently already in the Federal Courts are resolved and all appeals are ruled upon. Why spend State of California monies to enact and implement a law that might not pass Constitutional muster!?!?!

Administratively, please share this (FAXED) email ASAP with all your committee members.

Respectfully and sincerely,

David Conners, aka “Dave Cummings”

”

- Dave Cummings on #AB332; http://business.avn.com/articles/legal/Dave-Cummings-Speaks-Out-Against-AB-332-513798.html (via juliemeadows)

I may not be a native Californian…but if I was, I’d be spreading the word around. Then again, this could easily go nationwide if it passes, anyways. Please….spread the word!!!

An Open Letter To The Pro-Sex/Anticensorship Left: Time To Arise From Your Slumber

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:36:38 -0400

In my nearly 10 years as a blogger on sexuality issues, I’ve been very much taken aback by the means in which the Left has been so schzophrenic on sex.

Just as the Right still has their battles between the Religious Right and the Libertarians over just…

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"There was one rumor that “Susie Bright” and sex theorist “Pat Califia” were one and the same, and..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:09:38 -0400

“There was one rumor that “Susie Bright” and sex theorist “Pat Califia” were one and the same, and that this individual was not actually a woman at all but a pimp hired by an entity composed of the Mitchell Brothers and a Japanese porn syndicate, which was selling women as sex slaves overseas.”

- Susie Bright’s memoir, _Big Sex Little Death_ (via marginalutilite)

LOL!!!! That is all.

juliemeadows: R.I.P. Harry Reems.

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:00:49 -0400

juliemeadows:

R.I.P. Harry Reems.

upwithchris: Rep. Paul Ryan and the Senate Democrats released...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:25:02 -0400

upwithchris:

Rep. Paul Ryan and the Senate Democrats released competing budget proposals this week. But what you wouldn’t know from all the attention the Ryan plan has gotten is that there’s a third proposal that forms a much stronger progressive counterweight to the unbridled conservatism of the Ryan budget. Watch Chris Hayes explain — with the help of some awesome graphs — how the “center” gets defined in Washington, and what the budget debate really looks like if you take the progressives’ proposal into account.

sarajayxxx: Shaped like an S…. For Sara!

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:58:02 -0400

sarajayxxx:

Shaped like an S…. For Sara!

"Educate people. Educate. Inform. People like Gail Dines, who redefine positive terms and ideas,..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:14:11 -0400

“Educate people. Educate. Inform. People like Gail Dines, who redefine positive terms and ideas, twist them around and would choose to ban everything that offends them are the same kind of people who would pile all the lowly sex workers into a transport large enough to carry them and then light a fire under their ass. Hate is not education. Shame is not education. “Abstinence-only” education is not education. Words have meaning. Saying ‘no’ to things you don’t like and shutting down other’s voices is not progressive.””

- Porn vs. Anti-Porn Conversation: Mirror Neurons

http://www.juliemeadows.com/blog/2013/03/14/porn-vs-anti-porn-conversation-mirror-neurons/

(via juliemeadows)