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This month’s feature article at For The Girls is a tribute to the pioneers of Pro Sex Feminism: Annie Sprinkle, Betty Dodson, Susie Bright, Joani Blank, Candida Royalle et al.<\/p>\nThis month’s feature article at For The Girls is a tribute to the pioneers of Pro Sex Feminism: Annie Sprinkle, Betty Dodson, Susie Bright, Joani Blank, Candida Royalle et al.<\/p>\n
It was hard to sum up the achievements of these women in one handy-dandy paragraph each, but I gave it a red hot go. In researching each of these heroines I visited their websites to see what they’d been up to lately and in doing so I got to read some truly fabulous blog posts and essays. So I thought I’d point a few out for your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n
Susie Bright’s blog<\/a> is prolific and always a great read. I really liked her comments on the sexuality of pregnancy and birth<\/a>. She used a Hitachi Magic Wand during labor. It reminded me of a comment I once read from a doctor who said he always wanted to stimulate a woman’s clitoris during birth because it would help with the pain, but it wasn’t his place to do so. I also found this page<\/a> which has real-life stories of women who used orgasm to ease their labor.<\/p>\n Susie also has two ironic sex guides that are worth a look: Meanwhile, I discovered that Betty Dodson has already covered the “vagina” territory that I previously blogged about in Read My Lips<\/a>. Her main comment about the Vagina Monologues is here<\/a>, written back in 2001. And here I thought I was being original. There’s also some correspondence with Betty regarding the way her Bodysex workshops were mentioned in Eve Ensler’s play here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I also read a great profile of Good Vibrations founder Joani Blank<\/a> at SFGate. Seems that Joani is with me and Betty on the “vagina” issue as well:<\/p>\n “We’re really cheating our daughters by teaching them that their genitals are their vaginas,” said Blank, who considers it a feminist issue. She even went up against Eve Ensler – the creator of “The Vagina Monologues” – on this one, confronting her about the vulva issue after a show. “She gave me a very wimpy answer,” Blank said.<\/em><\/p>\n Annie Sprinkle continues her work apace, regardless of breast cancer or anything else. The Love Art Lab<\/a> has some great photos of what she and her lover Elizabeth have been up to.<\/p>\n It’s thanks to the work of these feminists that women like me can stand up and say we like porn and want to make our own, female-friendly version of it. I admire them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This month’s feature article at For The Girls is a tribute to the pioneers of Pro Sex Feminism: Annie Sprinkle, Betty Dodson, Susie Bright, Joani Blank, Candida Royalle et al. It was hard to sum up the achievements of these women in one handy-dandy paragraph each, but I gave it a red hot go. In researching each of these heroines I visited their websites to see what they’d been up Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-pornforwomen","category-sex-and-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nHow To Ruin A Woman’s Sex Life In 30 Days<\/a>
\nThe Straight Man’s Guide To Lousy Sex<\/a><\/p>\n