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Posts tagged sexual slavery and trafficking

Question: If Catharine A. MacKinnon speaks truth to power, what do dick-whipped white het men in power call the reality she addresses?

Answer: Dick-whipped white het men don't deal with the realities feminists describe. Question: Why don't they deal with reality? Answer: Because they're too busy misunderstanding and misquoting white radical feminists, and they're too busy benefiting from the privileges and rights, entitlements and lack of stigma that they enjoy. Including the right and entitlements to systematically misquote

Andrea Dworkin Speaks Out on Prostitution and Male Supremacy: If you’ve never heard her, witness political brilliance

Over at YouTube, just within the last few years, the place has gone from being an antifeminist video playland to also including a few profeminist and feminist videos and speeches. It's about time. What follows was posted by micksmum26  on February 24, 2010 ECD. She introduces this speech this way: Andrea Dworkin, feminist, gives a speech in Brighton, UK, in 1996 [on 10 November]. She discusses

Breaking Free: Sisters Helping Sisters Break Free. More Great Work by Vednita Carter

All that follows, including the photograph, is from *here*. Vednita Carter - Breaking Free Founder and Executive Director Mission: To educate and provide services to women and girls who have been victims of commerical sexual exploitation (prostitution/sex-trafficking) and need assistance escaping the violence in their lives. Philosophy Statement: We understand prostitution/sex- trafficking

Why [not ALL] British Men are Rapists–let’s see if people can figure out who, exactly, the title is referring to

What follows is from *here* and was sent to me by A.R.P.'s UK correspondent, Christina. Thank you, Christina. [sic]Why British men are rapistsJoan SmithPublished 23 January 2006 In the world of stag-night excess, lad mags and lap dancing, paying for sex is losing its stigma and more and more men do it. These "clients" are responsible for a grotesque crime, yet they get away scot-free

“Prostitution: Where Sexism and Racism Intersect”, by Radical Feminist Vednita Nelson

[image from the Gabriela Network, NYC is from *here*] All that follows is from the Prostitution & Research website, linked to from this blog to the right under important webpages. The article that follows is linked to *here*. Prostitution: Where Racism and Sexism Intersect* by Vednita Nelson Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, 1993, Volume 1: 81-89. Black women find themselves in a unique and

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

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 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