Ok I was going to reply but my phone died and when the website reloaded it lost my response. So I can't be bothered right now.
Just want to say her writings are important to me as a woman because of how she challenged intercourse under male privilege and dominance.
Dworkin wasn't puritanical she was a prostitute, bisexual and an atheist.
She believed pornography was part of the patriarchy and male sexual dominance. Under the laws that Dworkin and Mackinnon wanted to pass only sexually explicit material that depicted and promoted sexual violence and...
Yes I agree this is very true. I mean one minute she says you have to be a messed up person to do porn and that many porn stars have had abusive childhoods. That she's witnesses young women being manipulated into doing things they don't want to, I call that rape. But at the same time she's been...
I found a video that might be of interest to you sunstone "Mercedes Ashley: how I got into porn since so many ask" you can find it on YouTube.
It's an hour long and I have watched half of it so far. She says that most porn actresses she's met we're abused as children and porn stars are F'ed up...
:facepalm: pornography also depicts control and violence and abuse. I've seen a behind the scenes porn shoot of a woman crying and saying "it hurts" "I know it's meant to be acting but it hurts" they were still filming when she was crying, it was rape, and that wasn't fetish porn, it was...
Yes it's sad that anyone is sexually assaulted period. But he was making a point that he was sexually assaulted because he was perceived as female. So when someone makes a point about gender based sexual assault or that you're more likely to be sexually assaulted if you are perceived as female...
There are feminists out there who has had to fight really hard to have their work published or produced and for it to remain published and it isn't easy.
Where have you got his idea that we don't support each others work?
There are woman writers I want to read but I have to buy their books...