Two articles came through my in-box the other day. I found one of them rather thought-provoking and the other quite irritating. But they both had one thing in common. Well, actually, more than one thing, but they had one thing in common that I found especially difficult. They were both using gender-essentialist language to talk […]

A few months ago, I wrote about some research showing that when porn becomes legal in various places, the rate of sex crimes stays about the same or decreases. This is contrary to one of the common anti-porn arguments that we’ve heard from various directions. And now, there’s even more evidence showing that porn doesn’t […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. This isn’t the usual look at the politics of porn. According to the article Changes in pornography-seeking behaviors following political elections: an examination of the challenge hypothesis, there’s an interesting connection between how people vote and their porn habits. It turns out that states that voted […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: pornvalleyvantage.com (share this clip) If you’re as frustrated as I am with the biased writing about porn that we usually hear, and if you like to geek out on some well-designed and well-written research, you’ll enjoy From The Devil in Miss Jones to DMJ6 […]

This showed up in my in-box. I’m really looking forward to reading this book! Check out the info below and feel free to pass this along. Feminist Porn Studies: Writing by Academics and Sex Industry Workers http://feministpornstudies.wordpress.com/ A new generation of women in the porn industry openly identify as feminist and own their own companies, […]

Clipped from: msmagazine.com (share this clip) Over on the Ms Magazine blog, there’s a post exploring whether porn is racist, which was sparked by some of the things that Gail Dines has said about the industry. And in among the various comments, Dines herself includes a link to the chapter in her book on race […]

This post first appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: bishuk.com (share this clip) One of the most common complaints people have about porn is that it offers an unrealistic model of sex. Penises are always big and hard, vaginas are always ready for deep, thrusting penetration, there’s no lube, warm-up for anal sex, […]