May 29, 2007
Book: Getting Off: Pornography And The End Of Masculinity
>blurb
Pornography is big business, a thriving multi-billion dollar industry so powerful it drives the direction of much media technology. It also makes for complicated politics. Anti-pornography arguments are frequently dismissed as patently "anti-sex"—and ultimately "anti-feminist"—silencing at the gate a critical discussion of pornography's relationship to violence against women and even what it means to be a "real man."
In his most personal and difficult book to date, Robert Jensen launches a powerful critique of mainstream pornography...
buy: http://www.akpress.org/2007/items/gettingoff
thanks Diederik
~You don't have to be a Christian or a woman to not like porn.
>somewhat related:
A Call for an Open Discussion of Mass-Marketed Pornography
By Robert Jensen
"The fear of anything resembling censorship prevents us from confronting what pornography tells us about the cruelty of our culture, and the white supremacy and misogyny that abounds in America."
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/47677/?comments=view&cID=530286&pID=528942
(Posted Feb 10,'07)
~Unionize! Make the buggers pay!
[illus. not from above]
Posted by Stubbornson at May 29, 2007 03:05 AM