[lbo-talk] From failed, surreal dreams to a plague of fantasies

[Dennis Perrin]

> Now this is a brave and original analysis!
>
>  Here's a more interesting suggestion: read Laura
> Kipnis' Bound & Gagged -- I know that Doug doesn't
> like LK personally, but I think she's brilliant --
> which is a genuinely creative examination of what
> counts as porn (which is not obvious) and what
> function it serves in society. Her class analysis of
> Hustler (yes!) as a liberatory (!) enterprise is
> especially interesting, real ice cold water in the
> faces of the PC crowd and the MacDworkinites.


> jks

Are you seriously lumping me in with the "MacDworkinites"? Dude, I was in 
the heat of the porn wars back in the day. I fought against those types in 
print and in person. I've also lauded Hustler's satirical side in such PC 
journals as USA Today. I was commenting on the CURRENT crop of porn, which 
has become incredibly misogynist, coarse, and at times simply anti-humane. 
There's plenty of erotic/explicit expression that I still enjoy and will 
defend. But the stuff today is, in many case, god awful.

DP