- Pornography causes violence against women.
- Pornography is responsible for "copycat" behavior
- Pornography degrades women
- Pornography is only (or overwhelmingly) for men
- Pornography inherently exploits and abuses women
- Pornography is inherently "bad"- sexist, violent, etc.
- The "offensive" offensive nature of pornography warrants government action
The full text of this highly informative article can be found at Feminists for Free Expression
NP
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Dear Peter (or Always Controversial),
Sorry for the intrusion into your comments space, but I see no other way to contact you.
The Community Radio Show (on Valley Free Radio, WXOJ-LP) would like to invite you on the show this Sunday evening to take the porn debate to the airwaves.
Please contact me at editor at vfrcommunityradio.org
Thanks (and you can delete this comment if you'd like!)
Mr. Pell,
I'm having trouble finding documentation to support the assertions made by FFE. In particular, would you help me find the data to back up these claims?
PORNOGRAPHY IS ONLY FOR MEN
* Half the adult videos in the U.S. are bought or rented by women alone or women in couples.
* Sexual health professionals recommend pornography as entertainment and information for women and men. It may enhance failing marriages and help couples talk about and experiment with sex.
As for this claim...
* AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases have made it a public health necessity to encourage sexual fantasy material that offers women and men safe alternatives to unhealthy sexual contact.
NoPornNorthampton has reported how STDs such as herpes are rife among porn workers. Condom use and contraception are not always prominent features of porn movies, to say the least. This is preventing "unhealthy sexual contact"?
I'm having trouble finding documentation to support the assertions made by FFE. In particular, would you help me find the data to back up these claims?
I emailed FFE and asked them about source material. Anything beyond that and you'll have add me to your payroll.
NoPornNorthampton has reported how STDs such as herpes are rife among porn workers. Condom use and contraception are not always prominent features of porn movies, to say the least. This is preventing "unhealthy sexual contact"?
The only sources I've seen for this information come from anecdotal sources. I'd be interested to see what studies this claim is based on. I do know that the overwhelming majority of gay male pornography made in America include condoms.
Condom use is not the norm in the porn industry as a whole. See our post at
http://nopornnorthampton.org/2006/10/13/condom-use-below-20-in-american-porn-movies.aspx
The New York Times writes about how porn workers are put at risk to satisfy consumer tastes in "Sex-Film Industry Threatened With Condom Requirement" (8/24/04)...
While most people in the sex industry appear to agree in principle with the idea of consistent condom use, it has long been believed here that condoms are not sexy.
"In any sexual interaction where condoms are used, consumers tend to drift from that," said Graham Travis, head of production at Elegant Angel Video, a production company that turns out as many as eight new releases a month. "What the consumers want to see is performers without condoms, something that's as real and intimate as possible..."
The issue of worker safety in the pornographic-film industry has become more urgent in the wake of the most recent outbreak here of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. The outbreak was prompted in March by an actor who was infected while shooting a movie in Brazil and who transmitted it to at least three others after he returned to work in Los Angeles.
As many as 60 actors were believed to have been exposed to the virus, according to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, which tests about 1,200 sex-industry performers every month for sexually transmitted diseases. Filming was shut down until the outbreak was declared contained in early May.
Outside one of the foundation's two clinics in the San Fernando Valley on Monday, an actress who calls herself Nautica Thorn said the idea of all male performers wearing condoms was "great," but impractical.
"People these days really go for the shock value, for the high-risk stuff," she said, "and that's harder to do with a condom..."
Sharon Mitchell, a former adult-film actress who earned a Ph.D. in human sexuality before co-founding the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, said on Monday that condom use in the industry had gone up after the H.I.V. outbreak to 23 percent from 17 percent and that it was now back to about 17.5 percent.
What Nopornnorthampton fails to observe is the relatively rare incidence of HIV infection in the porn industry in light of all the sexual contact that occurs. Observe also, that the orgin of the "break out" reported upon by Nopornnorthampton was sexual activity in Brazil, not the USA!
A.C.
Peter,
Please contact me at ashelffo@gmail.com--I'd like to talk with you about what needs to be done in light of the planning board's vote the other night.
Andrew Shelffo
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