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Saving the world through porn

2006-12-07 16:33:32.605514+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Heather Corinna[Wiki], whom you may know from her work at Scarlet Letters and Scarleteen, and whom you may not know from her testimony to the Supreme Court in support of your First Amendment rights (upon which she remarks: "I have never had a pet name for my body parts, but I’m seriously considering calling my tits Exhibit 42 from now on."), wrote a long piece on why Scarlet Letters hasn't had any updates in a while: Why I Stopped Trying To Save The World Through Pornography:

Women can’t possibly reclaim pornography — which is an expression of sexuality — before we’ve reclaimed sexuality, period.

The whole thing is worth reading. And I think this ties in to why I was intrigued by Ariel Levy's comments, despite what I see as some obvious and immediate flaws in Levy's arguments: Raunch culture is still a defining culture for sexuality.

Anyway, too much coding to do right now to explore this too far, maybe y'all can take it soimewhere.

[ related topics: Politics Sexual Culture Sociology Civil Liberties ]

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