Noam Chomsky on his interview with Hustler magazine.
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Will Self writing in the London Evening Standard and on The First Post.
Will Self – London Evening Standard
01/04/2009
‘Porn in the home – it’s the nation’s dirty secret’
“…there’s nothing innocuous about pornography, and with a flick of a button you can access material in your own home that quite clearly involves the exploitation of vulnerable women – and men. I know this because like most men I’ve taken a look. I’m not proud of it, but nor do I believe in pretending to complacent ignorance. Let’s face the facts: the commercial imperative has, in the past 20 years, swelled the trickle of top-shelf mags and dodgy VHS tapes into a raging torrent of grisly filth.
I don’t believe that I’m a joyless puritan because I think this wrong. Pornography is definitely distinct from the erotic, and the criterion remains the same as it was at the time of the Chatterley trial: the erotic has an artistic merit that makes it something more than a mere stimulus, while the pornographic is nothing but that. The erotic involves men and women at an emotional level; the pornographic renders them nothing but purveyors and consumers of commodified sex…”
Read the full article here.
Will Self – The First Post
31/03/2009
‘Mr Jacqui Smith is a crap book-keeper’
“…I don’t happen to think pornography is a victimless crime: on the end of that remote control button is not some free-spirited – yet entirely well-adjusted – nymphomaniac, but a collection of miserable and tranquilised emotional zombies.
But that being noted, most of us have succumbed to the lure of a fiver’s worth of arousal at some time or another – hell, it’s just one of the panoply of seeming-delights that we consume, without bothering to consider the consequences for their producers. Who could happily slip on their trainers if they were treated to a view of the child-labourer who stitched them for a couple of bucks a day? Or bite down on an out-of-season sugar snap bean if he was confronted with the human being who wrecked her back harvesting them? Not me. Porn – together with drugs – is just the most poisonous of the fruits of globalisation…”
Read the full article here.
BBC Grumpy Old Men
Will Self also briefly remarks on the failure of ‘Sexual Liberation’ to deliver “some kind of fantastic egalitarian paradise of free love” but instead an “astonishing kind of public pornography”. BBC’s Grumpy Old Men.
BBC Question Time – 27/01/2011
On the subject of the sacking of Andy Gray and Richard Keys from Sky Sports for a number of sexist comments:
“It’s incredibly hypocritical of Sky -another Murdoch company- to get on it’s high-horse about sexism when it’s a major purveyor of what is effectively soft pornography itself which is exploitative of women.”
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