Archive for 'Pornography'
There’s A First Time For Everything, but todavia no for Graciela
I just stumbled across this story from the BBC about Graciela Yataco, a Peruvian model-cum-actress who at the age of 18 has been working to support her mother and brother for 10 years and out of school for 3. The article’s about her decision to sell, and then not to sell, her virginity for 1.5 [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under BBC, Canada, Catholicism, Christianity, Genesis, God, Graciela Yataco, Judeo-Christian, Peru, Pornography, Sex Roles, Women and Gender Studies, objectification, pimp, porn star, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexual advance, virginity.
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The Jessica Valenti Rapport
So last night, the guest on the Colbert Report was none other than Feministing.com‘s executive editor, Jessica Valenti, talking about her new book, Full Frontal Feminism. Read the rest of this entry for video of Jessica on Colbert. Sorry so grainy.
Posted: June 7th, 2007 under Colbert Report, Female Sexuality, Gloria Steinham, Jane Fonda, Jessica Valenti, Mardi Gras, Misogyny, Pornography, Stephen Colbert, Women and Gender Studies, birth control, femininity, feminism, gender, gender bias, mental health, objectification, rape, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, shemale, standard of beauty, violence against women, women's rights.
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Keep Your Socks On, I'm Cumming: Sex Positivity, Female Orgasm, Scientific Bias
In an article in the College Hill Independent from 2002, Ariana Green writes, “TEACHERS of abstinence-only sex ed have successfully followed Bush’s lead: they talk without ever saying anything of value. It’s an especially sad truth, right up there with the state of the economy and the administration’s hunger for war. Bush proposed to increase [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under A Hunger So Wide and Deep, Becky Thompson, Betty Dodson, Brown University, Carol Queen, Cunt, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Dick and Jane, Exhibitionism for the Shy, Federation of Feminist Women's Health Clinics, Female Sexuality, Feminist Frontiers, Global Sex Survey, Hollywood, Inga Muscio, Italy, Lara Kaplan, Masters and Johnson, Museum of Sex, Natalie Angier, Padua, Pornography, Realdo Colombo, Ruth J. Simmons, STIs, Sex for One, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist A, Time, UC Berkeley, Woman: An Intimate Geography, Women and Gender Studies, abortion, abstinence, abstinence-only, abuse, activist, anatomy, anxiety, arousal, brain, cervix, clitoris, contraception, cultural bias, cumming, education, embarrassment, empowerment, erotica, fear, female anatomy, female orgasm, feminism, gender bias, genitalia, genitals, government spending, herbalist, heterosexual, higher education, horror movies, intercourse, masturbation, men, midwife, neuroscience, orgasm, porn star, positron emission topography, right-handed, science, science and gender, sex, sex ed, sex education, sex positive, sex research, sex work, sex workers, sexpert, sexual pleasure, sexually transmitted infections, sin, speculum, stripper, trance, violence against women.
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I, Fembot: the Object and Subject revisited
Sit back and grab a drink, because this might be a long haul. You’re back! Sweet. Here goes: a good friend recently brought up self-objectification in a frank conversation about sex. “Really, I don’t see what’s wrong with it,” she said, “I like feeling sexy.” I listened to her argument, but I remain skeptical that [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under Barbara Stanwyck, Barbie, Equal Pay Act, Female Sexuality, I'm in love with a stripper, Lady of Burlesque, National Committee On Pay Equity, PTSD, Perfect Gentleman, Pornography, Renegade Evolution, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, T-Pain, Wyclef Jean, agency, black women, blogging, boyfriend, cartoon, depression, empowerment, expatriate, feminism, fucking, hispanic women, jean, objectification, porn, posttraumatic stress disorder, power, psychology, renegade, self, self image, sex, sex object, sex work, sexual advance, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, sexual pleasure, stripper, stripping, violence, violence against women, wage gap, wyclef.
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Reactions to Objectification in Japan
Rape culture in Japan is much more extreme than it is here in the States. There is a weaker taboo against ephebophilia, the “sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to pubescent adolescents,” which has resulted in a culture of so called “lollipop” or “Lolita” pornography of prepubescent girls, of [...]
Posted: May 22nd, 2007 under FRUiTS, Hideaki Anno, Japan, Japanese, Lolita, Love & Pop, Pornography, Sex Roles, Tokyo, adolescence, agency, enjo kosai, ephebophilia, fashion, fashion photography, film, fresh fruits, lollipop, objectification, photography, porn, prostitute, prostitution, punk, rape, sex, sexual preference, statutory rape, street fashion, subsidized dating, taboo, tentacle rape.
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College Sex Magazines and the Photographer as Subject
Stripping to pay for college is fairly common these days, leading some to question where the power lies in the profession in today’s sex-positive atmosphere: with the customer or the stripper? Across the East Coast, students at colleges and universities have been breaking into another sexy industry: pornography. In this article from the New York [...]
Posted: May 12th, 2007 under Boink, Boston University, H-Bomb, Harvard, Howard Stern, New York Times, Outlet, Playboy, Pornography, SWAY, Self Objectification, Squirm, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Vita Excolatur, college, erotica, francesca woodman, playful nudity, porn, social class, stripping, suicide, the gaze, violence against women.
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