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From the “I like to think I’m this insightful when I’m drunk” files:
So here’s what I want to talk about with class. This guy was all, “I would like to see sex shops zoned into a particular area.” Well that’s how it Already IS, fucker!! That’s how it’;s BEEN for decades now, and guess what, that’s where the PROBLOEMS come from! Just think for one nanosecond about the term “slumming.” That is fucked up. That implies a direct corrolation between porn/sex/dirty stuff and LOW CLASS. And let’s not forget lower class folks are presumed to be “wilder” and all that bullshit… oh and when it comes to sex shops, strip clubs, etc., eben if they DON’T want it in their neighborhood, guess who has the most effect when it comes to NIMBY (not in my back yard) bullshit? It’s not the poor!
Look I was blind to a lot of this stuff (not all of it tho) for a long time but now that I see it? I fucking see it EVERYWHERE, and it pisses me the fuck off!! Because to me it is now so fucking OBVIOUS, that it pisses me off that some people just.don’t.see it.
Okay and this is one of the main things that annoyed me about Pamela Paul’s book Pornified too. She doesn;t want porn to go away. She just wants it to go back to being something confined to the wrong side of the tracks. And she doesn’t see anything wrong with that! She just puts it out there like there’s nothing worth examining. She even used the phrase “low class stripper” a couple times and just didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.
-the fabulous/infamous Amber Rhea, under the influence of a little vodka and a lot of pissed off
(”Drunkblog RANT - classism and other shit,” Being Amber Rhea)
It’s funny - I didn’t see it either for a while, or I saw it and didn’t focus my eyes on what I was seeing.
For a lot of women sex work is a last-ditch option, something we all consider in the back of our minds when we’re growing up; we ask ourselves once or twice, if we needed the money, would we strip? Would we do porn? Turn tricks? And that fallback, that fishnet safety net, is there for every woman when times get tough.
Of course, it’s a valid emergency gig, but it’s not a decent job, let alone a respectable career choice. Once again, nice girls don’t. Well bred girls don’t. It’s beneath them - much like community college and dating outside their background.
So, yeah, it’s a class thing. Sex work is something a woman can turn to when she’s down and then slander once she’s back on her feet. In fact, she’s expected to. That’s part of the ritual of the redemption of the whore: she has to cast off her old life to be reaccepted into society.
It’s funny, the correlation between porn and lower-class neighborhoods. There’s an assumption that sex shops lower property values, so they’re restricted to less desirable areas. Interestingly enough there is no cause and effect there. According to Manhattan lawyer Herald Price Fahringer, “[New York City] did a study a couple of years ago that showed no rise in crime or decline in real property values.” (There’s been more on that issue recently, but I can’t find the link I’m thinking of; if anyone turns up some info, you’ll be duly rewarded with link love.)
Question your assumptions: porn is adult entertainment, and a working-class stiff doesn’t have half the entertainment budget a CEO does…
* For more information on the voluntary Restricted to Adults label, visit RTALabel.org.
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasmer participants. Want in Sugasm #62? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the linklist within a week and you’re all set.
This Week’s Picks
Me, Her, and Him 3 (http://erotischism.blogspot.com)
“But as sexually satisfied as he kept Kendall — or as satisfied as one man could — she was yearning for another kind of action.”
Polyamory vs. Polyfuckery (http://perverselypoly.blogspot.com)
“I admire Rachel’s altruism, despite her saying it’s a practical matter of what it takes to get her wet.”
A is for Abandon (http://redvelvetropeburn.com)
“The hands pressed into her lower back and she wanted to ask Him if He had felt them but her orgasm overtook her and she lost all conscious thought for a few moments.”
Mr. Sugasm Himself
The Best of SugarBank 2006 (http://sugarbank.com)
Editors’ Choice
Lovely Contradictions (http://pick-up-pieces.blogspot.com)
Slippery MetArt beauty courtesy of The Erotica Journals.
The end of 2006 is shaping up to be a pretty exciting week for the forces of porn:
The Adult Industry Podcast Network just launched and is taking submissions. If you’ve got a podcast out there geared toward the adult industry, or if you’re about to start one, check them out. They’ll host your podcast and promote you to their listener base.
Frankly I’m glad to see an industry-specific business podcast for adult entertainment. If you’re an adult webmaster or do sex-related affiliate marketing give their podcasts a listen.
Sam Sugar’s TGP.com is now in beta and is also taking submissions. The site’s relaunching with a bold new look and a very 2.0 theme:
TGP.com has entered the public Beta phase, allowing users to contribute to and benefit from what its owner calls “one of the adult Internet’s most valuable URLs.”
Here’s how the system works: Users upload erotic photos and links to their websites or affiliate programs. The photos automatically are placed in a gallery, and surfers who visit the site vote for their favorites. The most popular galleries appear on TGP.com’s home page, thereby generating significant traffic for the originating website.
Affiliate links are more than welcome, and Sam has invited both the amateur and professional sex blogging community to participate. Solo models, your time has come…
Interested in coming together for a cause?
The Event
“WHO? All Men and Women, you and everyone you know.
WHERE? Everywhere in the world, but especially in countries with weapons of mass destruction.
WHEN? Winter Solstice Day - Friday, December 22nd, at the time of your choosing, in the place of your choosing and with as much privacy as you choose.
WHY? To effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy, a Synchronized Global Orgasm.”
More details at globalorgasm.org. Thanks to Halycon of Globalgasm for the tip.
I’ll be incommunicado observing the Solstice from midnight EST til dawn of December 22nd. Happy holidays.
This week’s best of the sex blogs from the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasmer participants. Want in Sugasm #57? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the linklist within a week and you’re all set.
This Week’s Picks
Same Time Next Year (http://nocloudnine.blogspot.com)
“She nodded again, grabbing the doorframe as she pushed against the finger.”
Fuck me- it’s friday. (http://dirtylittlecockslut.blogspot.com)
“I won’t pretend to be coy- because I know what I want.”
Sexual Things You Don’t Know About Me (http://www.taratainton.com)
“My own erotic inner self has been piqued these last few days by a wonderful fantasy; maybe I can help pique yours by sharing.”
Mr. Sugasm Himself
Happy Thanksgiving (http://sugarbank.com)
Editors’ Choice
Fast and Furious (http://edinerotica.blogspot.com)
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Our featured beauty is a JS Hicks photo courtesy of DD Girls Blog.
The phrase “porn addiction” has been repeated so often in the past few months that it’s becoming accepted as fact.
First: Obsessive porn usage is a compulsion, not an addiction. It’s an addiction only in the same sense that any pleasurable activity is worth endlessly repeating. It’s a form of escapism and should be no more illegal than me wasting two years of my life gaming in front of a computer, or “wasting” my childhood hiding out in a library instead of socializing. Some people are just hard-wired with escapist nerd tendencies. The cure for that isn’t legislation, it’s learning how to deal with your life balance issues.
Note to my readers: Porn “addiction” can be easily cured. Start working in adult. I guarantee you, after the first year you’ll be so blasé about gangbangs that you’ll have to start looking at softcore.
Richard of DamselTheater.com demonstrates the dangers of sensationalist reporting in his MySpace blog:
After watching another news show about the dangers of porn, I thought it might be fun to put together a written documentary about the dangers of sports addiction. Although this piece is tongue-in-cheek, the references are all valid links (as of today). What this shows is how one can make a compelling case about the horrors of a subject by focusing on only what is wrong. I was initially going to put this disclaimer at the end, but was afraid of too many people not going that far to see that it’s a joke…
–sort of.
Sports addiction is a growing problem in America that dwarfs any concerns that one may have about pornography. A search for sports in Google shows that there are 772 million sports sites compared to a only 91 million porn sites [...]
“Is sports addiction better than porn addiction?,” http://blog.myspace.com/richreynolds
It’s a great argument on the subjectivity of addiction. Check it out.
(This is something new I’ll be doing. There are a lot of stories I’d like to pass on, but don’t have a chance to write a full commentary for. I’ll be posting those links as Quickies. Let me know what you think in comments.)
* I’ll be blogging on this later.
** Update, 11/2 9:36p EST: See also commentary at Viviane’s Sex Carnival, The Huffington Post, and Violet Blue’s Tiny Nibbles.
The best of the sex blogs this week by the bloggers who blog them. Spotlighting the top 3 posts voted by Sugasmer participants. Want in Sugasm #52? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the linklist within a week and you’re all set.
This Week’s Picks
Tempting Decisions — a dialogue (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
Petting Teacher (http://dirtydetails.blogspot.com)
D-Day for Dior (http://theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
Mr. Sugasm Himself
Porn Fatigue (http://sugarbank.com)
Editors’ Choice
First Taste (http://engrailed.com)
Obsession Art courtesy of ErotiCandy blog.
