There used to be a time when I did not know about pornography’s harms, when I wasn’t aware of how much pornography and prostitution harm women and children. It was then. Then, I did not use to care much about other people’s lives or, more exactly, I wasn’t very much aware of what really happened [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Then and Now
Posted in Free Speech, Gender, Harms, Porn Consumption, Pornified culture, Pornography, Radical Feminism, Rage on January 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Musing on a new piece…
Posted in Blogging, Pornified culture, Rage on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am currently musing on a new piece I will write on the pornified culture, in order to release some of my anger and rage, ’cause I need to! I will post it on this blog when it’s ready…
Ah, here is a great writer!
Posted in Misogyny, Pornography, Prostitution, Sexual Abuse on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Politics and Misogyny by Bob Herbert: If there was ever a story that deserved more coverage by the news media, it’s the dark persistence of misogyny in America. Sexism in its myriad destructive forms permeates nearly every aspect of American life. For many men, it’s the true national pastime, much bigger than baseball or [...]
Oh, this makes me angry!
Posted in Porn Consumption, Pornography on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mobile porn to hit $3.5bn by 2010 Revenues from mobile ‘adult services’ are set to approach $3.5bn by 2010, according to a new report. [...] A significant proportion of new revenues are expected to come from the relatively underdeveloped North American markets, despite restrictions on on-portal content. “While operators in the US and Canada are [...]
Well, that’s a start!
Posted in Anti-Porn, Blogging, Feminism, Radical Feminism, Website on January 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hi, I’ve finally decided to start my own blog which is now linked to my web site Against Pornography which was created in 2007. I’ve already made 7 posts on this new Blogger weblog so far (including this one). I’m pretty much new to the radical feminist blogosphere, so I don’t know how things will [...]
Assault at kink.com, torture porn production company
Posted in Free Speech, Harms, Pornography, Prostitution, Sexual Violence on January 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
***Warning: may be triggering*** As reported on the Prostitution Research & Education Traffick Jamming blog: “kink.com is a torture pornography production company. In January 2007 kink.com purchased a large building in San Francisco, in the Mission District, a community that is in need of affordable housing, that has many at-risk youth, and that for many [...]
‘Lie Dead’ by Rebecca Mott
Posted in Prostitution, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rebecca Mott is British. She is a survivor of child sexual and mental abuse. When she was 14, she was a prostitute working in a club. The men that used her were into extreme sexual violence. These experiences made her a radical feminist. For she feels that feminism is working toward a future without sexual [...]
Australian Article on the Harms of Internet Porn
Posted in Effects of porn, Harms, Pornography, Rape on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following article, which comes from Australia’s mainstram media publication The Age, aims at raising the awareness on the harms of Internet Pornography and the degradation of women, which porn undeniably entails. Although much of the content of this article will seem very familiar to radical feminists, it is nevertheless a great reading, and hopefully [...]
The Sex Industry in Nevada
Posted in Harms, Prostitution, Rape, Sexual Abuse on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found this interesting article about prostitution in Nevada, which was written by Suki Falconberg, “an ex-prostitute who fights against the sexual enslavement of women,” on January 17, 2008. Within this article, the author bring up many important points and facts: “. . . I would see nothing wrong with Las Vegas as a sexual [...]
Have you ever been harmed by pornography? – Please send your personal story anonymously here
Posted in Effects of porn, Free Speech, Harms, Pornography, Prostitution, Rape on January 20, 2008 | 11 Comments »
If you have been harmed by pornography (or in prostitution) as a woman, the partner of a porn user, a family member of a user, an acquaintance of a porn user, in the making of porn, as a porn user him/herself, etc., in any of the ways described on this site here or there, or [...]