Pornography is not free speech. It is a teaching tool for toxic patriarchal values that hurt women. Need to start looking into the topic of the harms of pornography? This list isn’t a bad place to start. https://bunnyemily.tumblr.com/post/181348764986/radicalacceptance-tell-me-again-how
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Dead Wild Roses: The Truth Behind the Fantasy of Pornography – Shelly Lubben
None dare call it torture until the escape… –Shelly Lubben Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Pornography, Shelly Lubben, The Harms of Pornography
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pornography is Hate Speech Against Women
It’s almost like ‘free-speech’ has very different meanings for different classes of people… “Pornography is hate speech against women. If it was any other group that was made object to such depictions it would be rightly banned and decried. Again, I reiterate my point that when Bumfights was made, homeless and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Creepy and Smutty Novel
In Los Angeles yesterday, a woman who claims that Donald Trump raped her when she was thirteen, was supposed to hold a news conference.But it was cancelled at the last minute after her lawyer said her life had been threatened and she was living in fear. A woman who accuses Donald
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin on Pornography
“People say, “Oh, well, pornography—that’s for masturbation, nobody can get hurt that way.” But orgasm is a very serious reward, isn’t it? Think of Pavlov’s little dogs, right? They don’t just think about salivating; they salivate. They do it because they learned it. Period. Now think about pornography. The dehumanization is a basic part of […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Lie – Andrea Dworkin
-‘The Lie,’ Andrea Dworkin. 1979. Letters From A War Zone, 1993.Filed under: Culture, Feminism Tagged: Dworkin, Pornography, The Lie
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: If You Needed More Reasons to Be Against Pornography – Andrea Dworkin
-Andrea Dworkin “The Lie” 1979. Letters from a War Zone 1993.Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Andrea Dworkin, Feminist Quote of the Day, Pornography
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Refuse to Click – Your Preserving Humanity Public Service Announcement of the Day
Against human trafficking? Against slavery? Necessarily, you must also be against pornography. Filed under: Education Tagged: Human Trafficking, Pornography, Slavery
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Dworkin on Pornography
In the United States, [pornography] is an $8-billion trade in sexual exploitation. It is women turned into subhumans, beaver, pussy, body parts, genitals exposed, buttocks, breasts, mouths open and throats penetrated, covered in semen, pissed on, shitted on, hung from light fixtures, tortured, maimed, bleeding, disemboweled, killed. It is some creature
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky – On Pornography
“(Asked about his stance on pornography, in response to perceived endorsement of Hustler, who had tricked Chomsky into giving an interview for the magazine.) Pornography is humiliation and degradation of women. It’s a disgraceful activity. I don’t want to be associated with it. Just take a look at the pictures.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Andrea Dworkin on Pornography
Let’s not have the porn = ‘freedom of speech’ argument this one time okay? I live in a country where if you film any act of humiliation or torture, and if the victim is a woman, the film is both entertainment and it is protected speech. Now that tells me
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Gail Dines on Porn Culture.
“Pornography has socialized a generation of men into watching sexual torture,” Dines said. “You are not born with that capacity. You have to be trained into it. Just like you train soldiers to kill. If you are going to carry out violence against a group you have to dehumanize them.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Can You Find the Empowerment?
Well colour me “sex-negative” I guess, but I’m having a lot of trouble finding *any* value associated with the debasement and objectification of women. And that, fair readership, is the first and last argument you will ever need for discussing the “benefits” of pornography with misguided people. Filed under:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Science of Pornography
Like any habit, consuming pornography can be a hard cycle to break and here is why. Filed under: Science Tagged: Behaviouralism, Pornography, Science, Stimulus Processing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anti-Pornography? Absolutely.
The idea that somehow pornography is good for society, or that it serves some sort of preventative function for males, or (insert rationalization here), make me ill. Pornography, like religion, has no place in a civilized society. I found this awesome quote while browsing the interwebs and I agree with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 2014 is not a good year to be a teenage girl – Clara Bennathan
I saw this quote on the Anti-Porn Feminists blog. Too good not to share. I have seen a sixteen-year-old boy weeping in distress after getting a girl’s pube stuck in his teeth, I hear he was unshaven. I have seen boys showing each other porn on their iPhones on the
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Of "Porn Filters" and Agendas
Remember July this year, when Joy Smith stood up in Canada’s Parliament and suggested we should follow the UK’s example and implement a “porn filter”? Well, Cameron’s filter is about to go live, and as one might have expected, it’s blocking a heck of a lot more than just “adult
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: With Freedom and Liberty for Some, Sometimes.
I know, I know, the senate scandal had some interesting things happen this afternoon. But, as I started this post prior to those revelations, we’ll talk about this first and senate tomorrow or so. Somehow, I have ended up on the mailing list for Conservative MP Joy Smith; I would
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: With Freedom and Liberty for Some, Sometimes.
I know, I know, the senate scandal had some interesting things happen this afternoon. But, as I started this post prior to those revelations, we’ll talk about this first and senate tomorrow or so. Somehow, I have ended up on the mailing list for C…
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