You're welcome :) If you don't want to identify yourself as a feminist, that's fine, I've just seen too many women back away from it to please someone else, not because they had well thought out reasons. I should have made the distinction.
I take a libertarian view on pornography. It shouldn't be outlawed, but hope people have the common sense to not display it before kids and where it is not appropriate.
Those women in those sites you showed are really of the fringe element. I wonder what happened to them that they feel this angry. I understand some of the frustration over men who are just crude pigs who exploit women, but I respect the women who can get in there and get good pay for it as sex workers. And not all men who enjoy sex workers are disgusting pigs, they simply enjoy the sight of women. I think Teleen is a better expert on this, anyways :) More power to her being successful. Feminists of this stripe fail to realize that a woman can be a sexual force in charge of her own sexuality and can display it in confidence. She isn't a passive sexualized object being exploited by men.
Men should be blamed for when pornography is excessive, not the women working in the industry. So called feminists who attack or criticize women in the sex industry are no better than self rightious bible thumpers who condemn sex workers.
I get tired of the "boobs, boobs, boobs" fixation as shown by these women, but it's not the fault of the sex workers. Men have allowed themselves to be swayed by the media that promotes certain body types of women and condemns others. Men are by nature visually orientated and that is what these man bashers are condemning. They would do better to attack mags like Cosmo that plays too much into promoting the ultra thin top heavy image of women so that women outside the sex industry are promoting it, too, so much so that "ass" and "leg" men seem to be on the wane. Men shoud be challenged to recover what really turns them on, not just the need to display the "perfect busty blonde" conquest to other men.
Sex workers were sacred in Babylon, where men went to temple of Ishtar to be taught by priestesses how to please women in bed. Temple dancers and courtesans for hire were also sacred, (like Firefly). It's sad it's not like that any more.
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If you don't want to identify yourself as a feminist, that's fine, I've just seen too many women back away from it to please someone else, not because they had well thought out reasons. I should have made the distinction.
I take a libertarian view on pornography. It shouldn't be outlawed, but hope people have the common sense to not display it before kids and where it is not appropriate.
Those women in those sites you showed are really of the fringe element. I wonder what happened to them that they feel this angry. I understand some of the frustration over men who are just crude pigs who exploit women, but I respect the women who can get in there and get good pay for it as sex workers. And not all men who enjoy sex workers are disgusting pigs, they simply enjoy the sight of women. I think Teleen is a better expert on this, anyways :) More power to her being successful. Feminists of this stripe fail to realize that a woman can be a sexual force in charge of her own sexuality and can display it in confidence. She isn't a passive sexualized object being exploited by men.
Men should be blamed for when pornography is excessive, not the women working in the industry. So called feminists who attack or criticize women in the sex industry are no better than self rightious bible thumpers who condemn sex workers.
I get tired of the "boobs, boobs, boobs" fixation as shown by these women, but it's not the fault of the sex workers. Men have allowed themselves to be swayed by the media that promotes certain body types of women and condemns others. Men are by nature visually orientated and that is what these man bashers are condemning. They would do better to attack mags like Cosmo that plays too much into promoting the ultra thin top heavy image of women so that women outside the sex industry are promoting it, too, so much so that "ass" and "leg" men seem to be on the wane. Men shoud be challenged to recover what really turns them on, not just the need to display the "perfect busty blonde" conquest to other men.
Sex workers were sacred in Babylon, where men went to temple of Ishtar to be taught by priestesses how to please women in bed. Temple dancers and courtesans for hire were also sacred, (like Firefly). It's sad it's not like that any more.