{"id":670,"date":"2008-04-13T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T06:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/feminist-porn-awards-fallout\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T06:02:07","slug":"feminist-porn-awards-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/feminist-porn-awards-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Porn Awards Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following last weekend’s Feminist Porn Awards<\/a>, there’s been the inevitable debate about whether feminist porn can even exist.
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\nViolet Blue’s SFGate column<\/a> discusses the idea and at the time of writing there are no less than 806 comments. I have only read the first 6… it’s too nice a day to even consider going through the rest.<\/p>\n

There’s also a high-falutin’ discussion at Finally Feminism 101<\/a>. This one is interesting because the hardcore feminists join in and the term “the patriarchy” gets thrown around with abandon. Not surprisingly, plenty of true believers are still offering up that “false consciousness” argument that if you’re a woman who enjoys porn (or heterosexual sex for that matter) you’re a victim of the overwhelming patriarchal culture that pervades all our thoughts and influences everything we do… Essentially you’re a victim no matter which way you look at it and the only way to get free is to become a lesbian and quit watching porn.<\/p>\n

I’ve also added my own comment down the bottom. Here’s a bit of it:<\/p>\n

\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe that creating a visual depiction of sex is automatically anti-feminist. As always, context is the key.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe the old Dworkinist line that sex is automatically anti-feminist because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a patriarchal construct. This line of thinking condemns any woman who enjoys heterosexual sex as some kind of traitor to the sisterhood and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s this attitude that has resulted in millions of young women determinedly saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a feminist\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

I also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t accept the suggestion that all women who appear in porn (or prostitution for that matter) are victims who have been forced into it. Remember when feminism was about giving women a choice? About making people understand that women have their own thoughts and desires? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do find it amusing (and frustrating) that so many people would think that feminist porn is an impossibility. Still, at least there’s a discussion about it, if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following last weekend’s Feminist Porn Awards, there’s been the inevitable debate about whether feminist porn can even exist. Violet Blue’s SFGate column discusses the idea and at the time of writing there are no less than 806 comments. I have only read the first 6… it’s too nice a day to even consider going through the rest. There’s also a high-falutin’ discussion at Finally Feminism 101. This one is interesting 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],"tags":[319,539],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-pornforwomen","tag-feminist-porn-awards","tag-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}