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Be safe and enjoy!
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In Defense Of Sluts
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, June 18, 2004
Rather, we need more of the self-defined sluts, luminous or divine, ugly or silly, egregious or annoying, regularly nonjudged sluts who can do whatever they want and sleep with whomever they want and who don't have to worry about what the hell "progressive" men or "enlightened" columnists or gum-snapping bimbo "Bachelor" bait have to say about it.
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I'm with you slutty Chrzanka. I think the whole American obsession/fear of sexuality and all things "dirty" is related to an even deeper fear of what other repressed/obsessed Americans might think. I also think it's related to parental laziness. Parents seem to want the world outside of their nuclear families to raise their kids, and the government, through regulation, seems more than willing to step up. Rather than monitor what their children are exposed to, or God forbid, actually discuss TV/movies/news etc. with their kids, parents by and large seem to want anything "questionable" to just disappear. I think the real damage comes from that covering over of language, bodies, sexual expression and so on. Keeping thing hidden and mysterious doesn't serve us or our children well and might even put us at greater danger of varying kinds of destructive behaviour and abuse.
I don't think these are particularly "sexually open days." Sure it's easier to be open about one's sexual identity, but no one really wants to see or talk about the sex itself. Maybe being slutty isn't the answer. Maybe we just need to be honest.
-Max
Yes, yes, yes, Max & Chrzanka! But when are we just gonna stop talking about it and thinking about it and just get down to it?
There was an article in the Dallas Morning News a few months ago that I thought for sure would get some letter-to-the-editor responses & editorials. It was about the fucked-up (yet somehow un-fucked) third party organizations that take our tax dollars and teach our children--at least those who suffer through public education--abstinence by way of showing pictures of cancerous vaginas and syphilis-infected penises. There was no response. Nobody questioned the methodology of instilling fear and repulsion toward an act as natural as eating or sleeping. Or the neo-born-againness of it all. Not so much as a critique that a more proper way to prevent cancerous vaginas (which, according to the article, was caused by an STD!!!) and syph-dick is to educate the children--who will have sex--about condoms and other ways to protect themselves, physically as well as emotionally. No more self-hatred leading to unsafe sexual practices!
But this is the country where our President mentioned this "fact of life" in his State of the Union address this past January: "Abstinence for young people is the only certain way to avoid sexually-transmitted diseases." Really?!?! Are you that unimaginative? (Further proof that war takes no creativity!)
There's also the case of Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who was fired for saying that masturbation should be discussed as part of young peoples' sex education. The people of this first-rate third world nation cannot even accept the possibility of discussion about masturbation. Just think of what they'd do with some real fucking! (Maybe they wouldn't be so goddamned uptight.)
Ah, I often fantasize about that shipload of puritans sinking in the Atlantic on their way to the New World and wonder, what if....
Max and Skajlab,
First of all, I want to thank both of you for your eloquent feedback! I agree with both of your positions and would like to add a better-worded position of my own (loosely taken from the aforementioned paper in my original post).
Searching for a feminist perspective that can handle the contradictory and challenging portrayals of female sexual pleasure within the context of today's culture is vital. And many women pornographers, like Annie Sprinkle, have already taken up this challenge within the pornographic imagination/industry. They have pursued and produced feminist sexual images that are non-exploitative, yet exciting, informative, yet sensual and above all pleasurable. In an interview, Annie Sprinkle comments, “Maybe there’s a little bit of porn star in some of you (or maybe not), but there’s a lot of 'you' in every porn star." This statement attests to the abundant configuration of women’s sexuality within pornography, but it especially highlights the many types of female desires that are located in an infinite spectrum of individual women’s sexual experiences. Finally, and probably most importantly, I would agree with Carole Vance’s dictum that “Being a sex radical at this time, as at most, is less a matter of what you do, and more a matter of what you are willing to think, entertain, and question” (p.23).
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REFERENCES
Annie Sprinkle’s homepage: http://www.anniesprinkle.org/
Interview with Annie Sprinkle. In Juno, A and Vale, V. (Eds.). Angry Women (pp.23-40). San Francisco: Re/Search Publications.
Vance, C. (1984). “Pleasure and Danger: Toeard a Politics of Sexuality.” In Carole S. Vance (Ed.), Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (pp.1-27). New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Chrzanka, I'd love to read your paper. Can you send me the citation or email a copy to me? I've long been a fan of Annie Sprinkle. Email me at my Srek account.
-Max
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