[lbo-talk] The Anti-Porn-Left Strikes Again!!! Jensen & Dines @ Z-Net

[Chuck0]

Anthony J. Kennerson wrote:
> http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=91&ItemID=9272 
> <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=91&ItemID=9272>
> "Pornography is a Left Issue" by Gail Dines and Robert Jensen
>  
> This article really pissed me off..big time.
>  
> Never mind the claims to represent all of feminism or Leftists, or the 
> usual antiporn feminist claptrap about how all men (especially Leftist 
> men who don't march in perfect goose-step to the MacDworkin party line 
> about porn/erotica's ultimate evil as the center of capitalism and 
> racism and (of course) misogyny.  It's the absolute brass of these 
> people to claim that they are being "hassled" and harrassed by us 
> pro-porn/anticensorship Leftist feminists for simply calling them out on 
> their BS and fellow-travelling with the Far Right, that really galls 
> me.  Not to mention, the utter classism and elitism and hidden racism 
> embedded within all their arguments...as if the likes of Susie Bright, 
> Nina Hartley, Dr. Carol Queen, Scott Tucker, and other genuine sex 
> radical Leftists were dominating the debate rather than them.

I've already thrashed this piece of garbage essay today on one Myspace 
club. This essay is a classic example of leftist prudery and 
unrecognized moralism. A friend sent me this essay a few days ago and I 
went to the website promoted in the essay. I started laughing when I 
checked their links and found a link to Enough is Enough, the anti-porn 
group run by Donna Rice. Yes, that Donna Rice of Monkey Business fame.

I've battled with the religious right on porn and free speech issues. A 
session I organized several years ago on porn in public libraries for 
the ALA annual convention ended up catching the interest of the American 
Family Association. They assigned a reporter to my session, who 
misrepresented himself several months before the conference, 
interviewing me for a sensational story that was run on right wing news 
sites. He even showed up for the session and sat in the front row. I'm 
told that ALA got several hundred letters of complaint from angry 
religious zealots. And I was scolded by a Marxist comrade because he 
thought that our session didn't push the envelope enough!

Anyway, the anti-porn leftist prudes remind me of the religious right. 
When I argue with them and tell them that I enjoy porn, they quickly 
resort to moralizing arguments about my lifestyle and interests.

Chuck