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Posts tagged Prostitution

To The White Men Who Are “Tired” of Women Speaking Negatively about “Men and Sex”

[this image is from here] I found this silly blogpost today. And I responded. The post by nixsight follows, and where I found it can be seen by clicking on the link in this sentence. On his own blog, his words are not so rudely interrupted by mine. But that was then, and this is here. Why Do Some Men Use Some Prostitutes? opinio nation 15:35 15/01/10 I concluded from this that it’s not

Pimp and Ho Drag Shows: No, it’s not a “gay” thing

[image is from here] When I hear "drag show" I tend to think of a gay male supremacist community event, often a fundraiser. The funds are never being raised to help women in systems of prostitution, mind you, because the reality of women in prostitution is far from the consciousness of the participants. The last gay white male supremacist drag show I went to was held at a college. It was

2010 FIFA World Cup: Soccer and Sex

Thanks to Clint Eastwood’s most recent film, Invictus, millions of people around the world – many of whom, both in and outside of South Africa, were previously unaware of and/or indifferent to the 1995 Rugby World Cup – now know the story of how Nelson Mandela harnessed the universal language of sport to preach transformation [...]

P.I.M.P.s, W.I.M.P.s and other men who control and occupy women for pleasure or profit

[image is from here] Take it, conquer it, enslave it, overwhelm it. Trick it, manipulate it, seduce it, drug it. Buy it, sell it, consume it, lend it around. Then get another one and enjoy beginning again. If she resists, break her down. Use violence or the threat of violence in the right way and she will beg, cringe, cry; she will help you hurt her so that you will hurt her less--this is the

What if we had a reasonably good conversation about pornography’s harm but pretended there were no women being abused in the industry? Naomi Wolf succeeds in accomplishing this mission with plenty of help from New York Magazine, Ariel Levy, and MEN

I cannot agree more with this article. I was in a relationship for 2 years with a man who was addicted to pornography. I am a very outgoing, sexual (but not promiscuous), and independent woman. However, after being subjected to constant rejection and coming in second to pornography, it did nothing short of crush my spirit. I would beg to say that the

“The Patriarchal Punch” and The Liberal Lack of Imagination: on society, story-telling, and speaking out

[image is from here] This post follows up where the last one left off. The link to the last one, for those who want the beginning of this exchange between myself and two people over at the blog, sexgenderbody, is here. The two other people involved in this exchange are named Arvan and letseatcake. For a time I thought these might be one and the same. It gets clearer they are not. Or it was

The Death of Imagination: on pornography, shame, and humanity

[image is from here] I don't quite get why liberals don't get what pornography is and does. I honestly don't quite get it. I think individualism and liberalism have combined so thoroughly with capitalism and patriarchy to make people believe, against great evidence, that pornography just causes "arousal" or "harms no one". You have to be a pretty fucking callous bastard to come to that

For every incested, molested, and raped child: YOU are A Beautiful Child, and your soul is older than any of these small goddamned hills

Men who buy sex: Who they buy and what they know

They don't tend to identify themselves as such. They get to be anonymous, the procuring bastards. Unless they are caught and photographed for committing a crime. Here is an image of the renowned anti-prostitution procurer of women in prostitution, former governor of the state of New York, Eliot Spitzer. [image is from here] Consider the following statements made by men who buy sex from women.

Debating Prostitution: in India and in the U.S., men want women and girls for rent or for sale

Illustration by Sorit [image above and most of what follows is from here] A brown hand offering up a white woman to black hands? As if most women in South Asia are white. And as if men in India, and the international purchasers, traffickers, and procurers are Black. From OutlookIndia.com here: [Part of what follows the editorial in the comments section:] [M]aking a choice between prostitution