Hi everyone! A friend of mine shared this article with me, and I thought you guys would be interested to see this as well. In short, a video sermon will be broadcast on superbowl sunday showcasing various pro football players who discuss their problems with pornography. Just as a warning, there is talk of some relgious matters....HOWEVER.....I'm ( Read more... )

Another curious post by me... I have recently started seeing a guy, and well, he has a lot of pornography on his hard drive... a lot of which is what he told me he would not consider to be objectifying. He offered to show me, but I was afraid of it only upsetting me. He's promised me that he won't use any of it while we are together. I trust him, ( Read more... )

How do you deal with it when you see/hear someone make a ridiculously stupid, overtly sexist comment? In general? I'm not really looking to discuss which comments would be defined sexist, more just wondering about your personal ways of coping if you happen to be around people who make comments that are sexist or offensive to you. I used to get so ( Read more... )

This is outrageous, how can they joke about violence on women?
http://blog.fleshlight.com/2010/06/obscure-sex-moves-illustratedtony-danza.html
This ad in the official company blog of a company who makes male sex toys.

This is brilliantly depressing: more cartoon commentary on unrealistic expectations ( Read more... )

I'm working on revamping my website and turning it into more of an e-zine and resource centre. I'd like to include articles written by as many different people as I can, and include links to good websites. I want it to focus mainly on the subjects of feminism, anarchism, cannabis activism, anti-racism/sexism/homophobia/consumerism, animal rights, ( Read more... )

...for pointing out that it's culturally normal to be exposed to porn WAY before the parents ever mention anything about naked people. Oof.

http://xkcd.com/751/

this might be really depressing when I find out the truth, but....

We always hear that almost all men use (I choose the term 'use' rather than 'look at', because, let's face it, pornography is a masturbation aid, and masturbation is active, not passive) porn. But do we really know how many do?

In the absence of real statistics, if we are relying on ( Read more... )

Hi, after a long absence from Livejournal I come back, and my first new post is here because this article is worth debating...
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They're targeting strip clubs, but I don't know why it can't apply to porn, too:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/25/iceland-most-feminist-country

(Well, this says the law bars, "clubs from making profit from the nudity of ( Read more... )