- P. Califia, "Public Sex"
That was 1986. In some ways it's gotten so much better. In all too many ways it still hits hard.
"Even those of us who are deviants or sex radicals or both can't seem to stop apologizing for the shabby forms our society often forces Eros to assume" is... whoof.
Full text:
"The Meese Commission has highlighted the failure of most civil libertarians to deal directly with porn. The typical anticensorship witness argued that we can't ban porn because the next things to go would be important - art, literature, theater, legitimate film, political protest. But this claim rings hollow. Silencing artists and radicals is not on the Commission's agenda. Most of the commissioners are quite plain about the fact that they just don't like people having sex out of wedlock or looking at porn and not feeling guilty about it.
The flaws of pornography make it difficult to defend. Much of it is sexist, made under poor working conditions, overpriced, and controlled by the Mafia. But you can't fix any of these problems by making it even more illegal and harder to get. The more marginal, the more persecuted porn is, the worse it will become. And the new producers who are gambling with nonsexist, challenging material will be squeezed out of business.
More of us have to start saying that we use porn, like it, and want it to be accessible. Even given the constraints under which it is currently produced, pornography is valuable. It sends out messages of comfort and rebellion. It says: Lust is not evil. The body is not hateful. Physical pleasure is a joyful thing and should not be hidden or denied. It is not true that women have no sexual hunger. There are other people who think about and do the things you dream about. Freedom is possible.
There is a choice.
Even those of us who are deviants or sex radicals or both can't seem to stop apologizing for the shabby forms our society often forces Eros to assume. Meanwhile, war has been declared against the sexual imagination, and I'm afraid we're all going to lose."
Just gonna keep reblogging this forever
Lust is not evil. The body is not hateful. Physical pleasure is a joyful thing and should not be hidden or denied. It is not true that women have no sexual hunger. There are other people who think about and do the things you dream about. Freedom is possible.
There is a choice.
The number of people on this site who hold otherwise progressive values yet who will fight you to death like a wild dog over any one of these sentences is absolutely wild.
There is a really toxic, sex negative culture fermenting under the surface, especially in younger generations who are, unless they get really cool with a bunch of freaky AND NORMAL shit really fast, in danger of handing an entire treasure chest of victories over to conservatives that will immediately be used against them.
This right here is a lot of the reason i keep being so outrageously lewd here - i couldn't find the porn i wanted, so i had to make it. i love that other people also enjoy it, and maybe get off to it, or just see that they're not alone with their fantasies
