Re: [microsound] [ot] feminism and pr0n

["ph!L @ c e n t i b e l" <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>...i don't think, though, 
>that feminist critics shed all that much light on the 
>subject. its way too easy to get bogged down in the 
>issues of the exploitation/commodification of women, 
>and miss the other strange points of the genre....

>...i'm not 
>sure if any feminists even bother to look at how 
>pornography affects the sexuality of the consumer 
>beyond a certain acquired lack of regard for females 
>partners....

I'm not sure if you're aware of how much feminist writing there has been
on pornography. Not all of it is anti-porn, as you seem to suggest. See,
for example, Nadine Strossen's (sp?) _Defending Pornography_. For more
on the feminist debate around porn, see _Sex Positives?: The Cultural
Politics of Dissident Sexualities_, edited by Thomas Foster, Carol
Siegel, and Ellen E. Berry, or _Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political
Culture_, by Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter. Or even Laura Kipnis'
_Gagged and Bound_, which (as I understand it) argues that Larry Flynt
is more of a feminist than Andrea Dworkin.

Phil the Pheminist

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