{"id":114,"date":"2006-07-02T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/02\/catching-up-with-the-pro-sex-feminists\/"},"modified":"2006-07-02T22:59:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T12:59:04","slug":"catching-up-with-the-pro-sex-feminists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/02\/catching-up-with-the-pro-sex-feminists\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With The Pro-Sex Feminists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/anniesprinkle.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Annie Sprinkle\" \/>This month&#8217;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<p>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&#8217;d been up to lately and in doing so I got to read some truly fabulous blog posts and essays. So I thought I&#8217;d point a few out for your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susiebright.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Susie Bright&#8217;s blog<\/a> is prolific and always a great read. I really liked her comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/susiebright.blogs.com\/susie_brights_journal_\/2006\/06\/egg_sex.html\" target=\"blank\">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&#8217;s clitoris during birth because it would help with the pain, but it wasn&#8217;t his place to do so. I also found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unassistedchildbirth.com\/sensual\/birtherotica.html\" target=\"blank\">this page<\/a> which has real-life stories of women who used orgasm to ease their labor.<\/p>\n<p>Susie also has two ironic sex guides that are worth a look:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/susiebright.blogs.com\/susie_brights_journal_\/2006\/06\/how_to_ruin_a_w.html\" target=\"blank\">How To Ruin A Woman&#8217;s Sex Life In 30 Days<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/susiebright.blogs.com\/susie_brights_journal_\/2006\/06\/a_mans_guide_to.html\" target=\"blank\">The Straight Man&#8217;s Guide To Lousy Sex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I discovered that Betty Dodson has already covered the &#8220;vagina&#8221; territory that I previously blogged about in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/15\/read-my-lips-its-vulva-not-vagina\/\">Read My Lips<\/a>. Her main comment about the Vagina Monologues is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettydodson.com\/vaginano.htm\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>, written back in 2001. And here I thought I was being original. There&#8217;s also some correspondence with Betty regarding the way her Bodysex workshops were mentioned in Eve Ensler&#8217;s play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettydodson.com\/vdayquestion5.htm\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also read a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2003\/02\/14\/WB212311.DTL\" target=\"blank\">profile of Good Vibrations founder Joani Blank<\/a> at SFGate. Seems that Joani is with me and Betty on the &#8220;vagina&#8221; issue as well:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re really cheating our daughters by teaching them that their genitals are their vaginas,&#8221; said Blank, who considers it a feminist issue. She even went up against Eve Ensler &#8211; the creator of &#8220;The Vagina Monologues&#8221; &#8211; on this one, confronting her about the vulva issue after a show. &#8220;She gave me a very wimpy answer,&#8221; Blank said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Annie Sprinkle continues her work apace, regardless of breast cancer or anything else. The <a href=\"http:\/\/loveartlab.ucsc.edu\/2orange\/index\/index.html\" target=\"blank\">Love Art Lab<\/a> has some great photos of what she and her lover Elizabeth have been up to.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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. 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