Comments on: Feminist Porn Wars

By: Jiz Lee

Jiz Lee — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:45:50 +0000

Looks like I’m joining the conversation a little late. I need to visit eros blog more often!

It seems like this is an issue of sex positivity.

I think one’s sexual preferences (or non-preferences as the case may be) has less to do with feminist identity, and more to do with a generalization of cultural sexism. Women who enjoy giving head should not be held to the same double standard as in the past, for women who enjoy sex.

There are open-minded feminists (both making their own porn, and buying and watching porn) who are sex positive. Feminist pornographers are making conscious decisions in their films.

*Audacia Ray * Shine Louise Houston * Tristan Taormino*

I love me some sex-positive feminist porn!
Jiz Lee

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:50:56 +0000

I think real feminism is about breaking down walls and replacing them with new ideas.

You can’t JUST break down walls. I you did the feminist identity would be a reactionary pile of rubble.

I think feminist literary style deconstruction of porn imagery is a wall that has already been broken for a lot of people who are feminists and like porn.
Lots of us have been running back and forth over the previous site of that wall building a sex positive identity and having fun.

People are rebuilding on the site, just like Audacia Ray, but some individuas who havn’t been paying close attention say. “Wait! What about that wall! Someone needs to do something about that wall!”

I think at this point, it is more likely a personal wall than a fixture of society.

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:47:57 +0000

Well, how about around the head, between the breasts, under the legs, and back up between the lips, nothing but tongue.

Cum, even in movies doesn’t bounce and these guys are no Michael Jordan.

“Off the satellite, of the empire state building, though the window, off the rafters, off the wall, nothing but net.

I never thought I’d think of old McDonald’s commercials reading a blog about sex.

By: Dr.Whiplash

Dr.Whiplash — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:54:15 +0000

What is and what is not feminist is precisely whatever the grand ranging vista of females say that it is. It is not about narrowing the choices of women, but about broadening them. If anything, (Purely being the devil’s advocate here, and taking an opposing position to my own statement), feminism is heterosexual activity, because the majority of females claim to be hetero. People who relate feminism with the hatred of or the exclusion of men, are harming the very gender they claim to champion, and obviously have an agenda that takes a deviating path to true feminism. If even a small percentage of women enjoy contact with semen, it is a feminist activity that they have a right to enjoy if they want to. If it was true that only a small faction of women enjoyed porn, that would still make it a feminist activity.
In my experience, it has always been the repressed females who shy away from giving head, and the more self-actualized are the ones who truely enjoy it.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:39:40 +0000

Ugh, fanatical feminism at its finest. “Men can’t tell you what to do, but as I woman, I totally can.” Lovely.

I don’t know what the debate is. Considering feminism is supposed to be about choice, it bothers me that some feminists run around yelling about how a woman giving her SO a blow job is somehow degrading.

I like giving oral sex. I don’t feel degraded or oppressed. If anything, I feel more empowered because I have most of the control in that situation.

By: johnsonjb

johnsonjb — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:14:28 +0000

First off, what they are saying is “bad for women” depends upon the perspective of who i saying. That being said, I am male, yet I prefer lesbian films, I prefer dominatrix films, and I prefer the wonderfully imaginitive softcore porn that has a *gasp* story. So I guess that makes me a feminist male, of a sort. I have noticed, that the male dominated porn industry keeps getting a smaller and smaller throne, as people are seeing there is a wide range of flavors emerging from other sources, mainly the women of porn.

I understand that porn is supposed to serve a purpose, but the object of that purpose has been redefined through time. It is unfortunate that some of the feminists have gone from being about women’s rights, to becoming so Dianic that they have become anti-male.

Final bit, and on a lighter note…
money shots…personally, with inflation, and everything, the money shots in a 20-30 dollar dvd, are probably only worth 2 cents for the quality and style invested for the poor guy to “do his business for the money”. Now a real money shot? Well, how about around the head, between the breasts, under the legs, and back up between the lips, nothing but tongue.