On Religion and Feminism

OK. This is gonna be a deep, long, TLDNR post. If you’re after porn, scroll down, hit back and check out the other recent posts. In the last two days there’s been a bit of a flurry of argument on Twitter about Islam, feminism and racism. Specifically, Kitty Stryker said that Anna Span was being racist for saying “You can’t ignore the correlation between Islamic countries and terrible female rights.” Read More …

This Is How Some Cultures View Women

This is an ad from Egypt encouraging women to cover themselves to prevent rape (via this post at Pharyngula?. That’s right girls, if you’re raped, it’s your own fault for being uncovered and letting the flies stick to you. Never mind the education campaign telling men that rape is bad. Responsibility and honour lies with women. I’ve stated before that I think religion is responsible for oppressing women and Islam Read More …

This Load Of Guilt And Shame Brought To You By “Dirty Girls Ministries”

I’ve long considered the idea of “porn addiction” to be bullshit. Now I’ve got another example of just how bullshit it is. Dirty Girls Ministries (I’m not going to link to them) is a new website created by evangelical Christian group the Westside Family Church. It aims to “help women struggling with pornography addiction” through “confession, prayer support, resources for accountability and many other tools.” Yes folks, the loony Christians Read More …

Conservatives Consume More Porn

It’s not surprising, but a study of which US states consume more online porn has found that “red” states are up for it more often. New Scientist has found that those states with more conservative and religious populations tend to be the biggest consumers of porn. Utah tops the list. Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year’s presidential election Read More …

A New Joy Of Sex, Censorship And Other Linky Stuff

Once again I’ve got a bunch of things to write about and I’m just going to be lazy and bung them all into one post with a nice sexy pic to make it a bit more fun. First – they’re about to release the rejiggered Joy Of Sex. The New York Times has a great article about how the book has aged and it goes into some interesting detail about Read More …

Time Again For Operation Church Stakeout

A while ago I made a little site called ExExExChurch which is my response to the way some religious groups are fixated on the idea of “porn addiction.” The name is a play on one of the worst culprits, XXXChurch, a insistent rabble of lunatics who believe that masturbation is a sin. Anyway, via Fleshbot I found this news story of another bunch of self-righteous busybodies who are filming the Read More …

Scary Comments About Sex By Fundamentalists

In theory I shouldn’t talk about religion on this blog, but sometimes I feel the urge to post something I’ve found. And given that US Republican candidate Mike Huckabee recently said he wanted to change the US constitution to resemble the bible, I’m feeling inclined to say something. Reading this list of scary, ignorant and occasionally amusing comments by fundamentalist Christians makes me concerned for the future. Individuals should be Read More …

Christian Site Just4Ladies.com Was Never A Porn Site

I’ve stumbled across another dodgy example Christian anti-porn extremism. This page asserts that the domain just4ladies.com was originally a “pioneering porn site for women” and was in operation as far back as 1995. It then gushingly praises the owner, Michele Washam, for converting it into a Christian site. Naturally I was curious to discover this when I found it on Google News. As far as I was aware, the first Read More …

I Need An Anti-Christian Filter For Google

This month’s feature at For The Girls is about cybersex. It’s a fairly general article that looks at the appeal of one handed typing and discusses some of the negative issues like whether it constitutes cheating. The article proved difficult to research thanks to the bazillion Christian-based sites out there raving about the terrible dangers of cybersex and how it’s always “addictive” and ruins relationships. I spent over an hour Read More …

Eek! The Christians Tried To Convert Me

We have new neighbours across the road and, because we didn’t hide quickly enough, they invited us over for a coffee. Now, when you’re a pornographer working from home in a nice, quiet, suburban neighbourhood, you do your best to stay on the good side of the neighbours and not attract attention. I’m also freakishly antisocial and try not to talk to any of them, just because it’s easier that Read More …