How did porn get to be cool? Pop culture’s unquestioning embrace of porn leaves Adam Carey searching for answers. Read the Sydney Morning Herald article here.
How did porn get to be cool? Pop culture’s unquestioning embrace of porn leaves Adam Carey searching for answers. Read the Sydney Morning Herald article here.
Anti-porn conference stresses importance of awareness Students of all stripes came to discuss feminism and pornography during the Feminist Anti-Pornography conference held last weekend. The UNH Womyn’s Club, along with the New Hampshire chapter of the group Stop Porn Culture, hosted the event. Read the article by Caitlin Andrews for The New Hampshire here.
image which appeared in Vanity Fair magazine is from here Bob Guccione, who died Wednesday 20 October 2010, at the age 79, was what might be termed one of several infamous U.S. pimperors, or rulers of pornography empires that trafficked in women and made exploitation and objectification into “sex” for heterosexual male consumers. He was the founder of Penthouse, a magazine of pornography (literally, the graphic depiction of ‘whores’) which started in England in 1965 and arrived in the U.S. in the late 1960s becoming tremendously popular and profitable through the 1970s and 1980s. It was Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine’s main rival for years. While Hefner made women into naked and less-naked Playboy Bunnies whose features were far from natural or normal, Guccione turned...
Obituary in The New York Times
Pornography often goes under the euphemism of adult entertainment, which makes it sound like something complicated that we young people wouldn’t understand, like Plato or Keynesian economics. The truth is, however, that most people who watch porn aren’t adults, and most people reading this website will probably already have come to the conclusion that it isn’t entertainment either. Let’s look at the facts. The single largest demographic group of porn consumers is not over 18. It is believed to be the 12 to 17 year old age group. Somewhere between 60 and 90 per cent of under-16s have watched porn. Most children first experience pornography at age 11, which means they will be either in the final year of primary school or the first...
A new Playboy Club is set to open in London 30 years after the original Park Lane venue closed its doors. Read about it hear. More porn-related news here.
I noticed 2 things when I walked into the petrol station locally – one was a well-dressed man in a suit looking a young woman up and down as she got into a car. The second was a construction worker casually looking at the newspaper rack – his eyes peeled to the left – The Sport as often it does was displaying an “up the skirt” shot. Two men drawn to the visual – as we probably have done since day dot, some might argue. But was there ever a more difficult time for visual overload and temptation? At a click of a mouse in a bedroom with a PC many men enter an Aladdin’s cave of porn. They literally have the capacity to...
Porn performers on edge after new HIV case Los Angeles Times A few quotes: “Consumers generally don’t want to see condoms. That puts them one notch removed from the moment,” said porn star Jeremy Steele. “That’s part of the fantasy… …The HIV infection report has caused some major porn producers to suspend production, a development that could not come at a worse time for performers, who have been hurt by the recession and fewer shooting options, insiders said. “Over the last few years, it’s extremely slowed down. Why? Because of the economy, in conjunction with all the pirated and free porn … and how mainstream it has become,” Steele said. “There’s countless young girls and guys trying to come into the business. It’s now...
“A generation raised on hard core has trouble with the real thing“ Gail Dines writes today for Australian (Melbourne) newspaper The Age. “In the vast majority of porn today, sex is not about making love, as the feelings and emotions we normally associate with such an act… are missing, and in their place are those we normally associate with hate – fear, disgust, anger, loathing, and contempt. As she is being roughly penetrated by any number of men, she is being called vile names such as whore, slut, and worse. We often hear that porn is all about fun and fantasy, so it has no real effect. My interviews with university-age men tell a very different story. When I talk to men about their...
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