Comments on: Pornography and Pop Culture – Part 1 http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/ surf's up Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:35:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mm http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/#comment-655 mm Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:35:12 +0000 http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/#comment-655 hi, i am a feminist who chooses not to use "2nd wave" or "3rd wave" as I believe it encourages a chasm between different groups of women over just a few issues - which tend to be porn and sex work! I don't have time for an epic response to this, but I feel that a lot of the fighting between these "waves" leaves no space for layered opinions on the issues. Either you are opposed to all porn everywhere, or you can't get enough of "Girls Gone Wild." I have no time for a male-run industry in which plastic-ed women work for pennies in cock-centric porn. But to be anti-porn means also denouncing the female-run, queer porn industry which, though small, has potential to educate and yes stimulate women. This porn industry demonstrates safe sex, educating where school sex ed programs DEFINITELY lack. Can't we be against exploitative porn rather than blanket hating the whole concept of film and photography for sexual pleasure? hi, i am a feminist who chooses not to use “2nd wave” or “3rd wave” as I believe it encourages a chasm between different groups of women over just a few issues – which tend to be porn and sex work! I don’t have time for an epic response to this, but I feel that a lot of the fighting between these “waves” leaves no space for layered opinions on the issues. Either you are opposed to all porn everywhere, or you can’t get enough of “Girls Gone Wild.”

I have no time for a male-run industry in which plastic-ed women work for pennies in cock-centric porn. But to be anti-porn means also denouncing the female-run, queer porn industry which, though small, has potential to educate and yes stimulate women. This porn industry demonstrates safe sex, educating where school sex ed programs DEFINITELY lack.

Can’t we be against exploitative porn rather than blanket hating the whole concept of film and photography for sexual pleasure?

]]> By: Greenconsciousness http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/#comment-646 Greenconsciousness Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:54:03 +0000 http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/#comment-646 Can you provide the name of the paper you are writing about or a link to it on-line? Whisnant’s paper ? You have provided a big service to women with this post. Can you provide the name of the paper you are writing about or a link to it on-line? Whisnant’s paper ? You have provided a big service to women with this post.

]]> By: ceceliahouse http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/#comment-29 ceceliahouse Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:53:06 +0000 http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/#comment-29 Valenti's cover shouldn't be too surprising, given that on the feministing bio page she lists the movie, <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0274812/" rel="nofollow">The Secretary</a>, as one of her favorites. Valenti’s cover shouldn’t be too surprising, given that on the feministing bio page she lists the movie, The Secretary, as one of her favorites.

]]> By: kara http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/#comment-28 kara Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:53:18 +0000 http://ceceliahouse.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/pornography-and-pop-culture-part-1/#comment-28 yeah - valenti's cover threw me for a loop as well. it seems that there is a huge push in the 3rd wavers to embrace a level of stockholm syndrome when it comes to porn. i hear a lot about "women taking the power of porn back (?!)." uh. when did women ever have the "power" to begin with? you can't reclaim something that wasn't there in the first place. it seems to me that by money being involved at all would make anything less liberating - at the very least, it's a false sense of liberation. does that make sense? girls gone wild videos = liberation? i don't see it. i have to run right now - i need to think about this some more... i'll be back! thanks for writing all of this out - next best thing to being there with you! yeah – valenti’s cover threw me for a loop as well. it seems that there is a huge push in the 3rd wavers to embrace a level of stockholm syndrome when it comes to porn. i hear a lot about “women taking the power of porn back (?!).” uh. when did women ever have the “power” to begin with? you can’t reclaim something that wasn’t there in the first place.

it seems to me that by money being involved at all would make anything less liberating – at the very least, it’s a false sense of liberation. does that make sense? girls gone wild videos = liberation? i don’t see it.

i have to run right now – i need to think about this some more… i’ll be back! thanks for writing all of this out – next best thing to being there with you!

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