of that whole "maybe there are a few feminists out there who are anti-sex." An old comment on RATM I just found going back and looking at one of the porn posts.

Sarah, you are nothing more than a puppet, a Manchurian Candidate for the male-ocracy (and a particularly boring, imbecilic one too). How dare you glorify jizzpics and the monsters who view ( Read more... )

I wanted to link you all to a conversation going on in my comments over here. I felt it warranted its own post. It began with a discussion of the Penn & Teller Bullshit! episode on pornography, and the part of the show in which Gail Dines, exasperated, cried out "You keep badgering me for studies! There are NO GOOD STUDIES!!!" A commenter felt -- ( Read more... )

I've known vaguely that there was a scandal wherein Evelina Giobbe, a luminary of the anti-prostitution movement, allegedly sexually assaulted one of the women she supposedly helped to rescue from prostitution. (Does anyone know whether she was found guilty?) I'd seen tiny snippets of the court documents, such as this:

Kelly Holsopple, Plaintiff, vs ( Read more... )

I feel a little honored, like a celebrity stopped by. One I totally disagree with, but still. :)

Though I do think it would have been nice if she'd actually gotten what I said correct.

I said I think it's weird pressure to hold a pledge over someone's head as incentive to get them to stop using pornography, and I stand by that. As I've mentioned ( Read more... )