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Some feminists feel porn is very bad for women….

The pro-porn rebuttal to that opinion has already been made very competently by Nina Hartley and others.

To summarize it, pornography is good because it gives outlet
to things — to fantasies it would be inconvenient for us to pursue in our real lives, and also to impulses which might, if indulged, jeopardize our standing in the community. Both factors apply to both genders.

As an ideological supporter of porn, it gave me personal pause to find myself in disagreement with intelligent women on so important a question. It also forced me to visit the commitment I have made to pornography, which would have to be nullified if I became convinced porn was actually bad for women. Suffice it to say, I don’t believe it is harmful.

This is a critical time for pornography. Significant censorship is quite possible. And I’m afraid the business-as-usual defenses of long historical success are going to cave next time they are tested.

I’m convinced that when push comes to shove, to win, to really WIN — not merely to scrape by with a technical legal victory — we have to make a case on merits, not just Free Speech… more

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Rivalries can be fun.

When the normal course of things provides neither spoils nor perils of sufficient magnitude to inspire our best efforts, competitors can decide to become combatants. When such is the case, there can be no small disagreements. Every “victory” inflates, and every “defeat” is a bitter pill.

The artificially enlarged significance of trivial matters can transform the mundane into grandiose symbols and it can fuel true progress — but it can also wear you out.

Though there are others, AVN and XBIZ are regarded as the industry’s two primary editorial voices. During the last two years, I have watched the rivalry between them swell, and I have watched friends and colleagues take sides. Though at times certain definitive adjectives have suggested themselves in my mind in connection with one magazine or the other, I cannot embrace them.

Tough call — I admire both rags for different reasons — I guess the question comes down to what it is you’re looking for as a reader when you turn the pages…

Journalism is a truly fascinating field. on the one hand, it is elevated by an extraordinary ethical standard — comparable to the weighty oaths undertaken by physicians and attorneys — the journalistic ideal, reportage, telling it like it was — and only how it was, unembellished, untainted, undistorted, etc, etc..

I was up too late, and loose-of-word, when I tossed these few up on kblogger one night:

I must thank Raven for putting that blog in my hands. Though I had built impoverishedNOOBS on Wordpress, I hadn’t really appreciated the power of the blog…until I heard the Raven’s gentle rapping, tapping… nevermore.

My concerns for the Pornbiz have expressed themselves in urgent tones, in sarcastic tones, in pleading tones, in humorous tones… This one’s short, sweet, not un-funny, and arguably poetic. You decide.

Damn, these metaphors will be the death of me, but WTF… Euphemisms, by any other name, are i n e v i t a b l e when the attending physician and a patient must discuss a prognosis such as this.

If it were me in the doc’s tough spot, I think I’d go the philosophical route…

“You’ve had a wonderful run, Old Boy…”

Nah, the truth of the matter is it’s not so much “death” as having to decide (on your death bed, unfortunately) whether or not you believe in re-incarnation. If you do, then you shall succumb to the Fog for only a brief instant, and then all will be aglow, again, and brighter than ever — smile

But, do nothing, yet.

I am convening opinions at DOTxXxBLOG — and nothing is decided.