[lbo-talk] Re: alt-porn & explicit content

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 5 07:25:19 PDT 2005


Chuck0 wrote:


>jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
>>This is what my SO has on the shelf here at home that I've actually
>>read. Much more here that I haven't and likely won't make the time
>>to read. I have never been to the Family Research Council website.
>>If these sources are tainted with right-wing propaganda I certainly
>>missed it but I suppose it is possible. Why don't you read them and
>>let me know.
>
>Yes, I know these things have been studied among sex workers. Women
>who work in other industries also have similar rates of abuse in
>their lives.
>
>I'm sticking to my point: leftist prudes dredge this stuff up to
>make generalizations about pornography, which is a genre of fiction,
>not some monolithic "industry."

I'm guessing that the anti-porn gang still hasn't listened to my interview <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#050324> with the actual sex workers who put out $pread <http://www.spreadmagazine.org>. They approach this as a labor issue, not a moral issue.

Doug



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