links for 2008-10-17
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"According to Axel-Lute, sex-positive journalism is 'not just someone saying ‘Yay sex!’ It’s more detailed than that. It can be a story about something that’s a problem, but if you report it objectively then it still counts for the award.'
Featuring articles from papers like the Miami Herald, The New York Times, and Washington Post, the award is given for several categories: daily newspapers, other news publications, features, columns, sex-themed publications, and opinions. Judges included sex columnist Dan Savage, sex therapist Marty Klein and journalist Judith Levine."
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"You know what I heard when John McCain did his fucking air-quotes? 'You women are flighty and irresponsible and you don't know what you want from one day to the next. You will choose to abort a wanted pregnancy because of a cough. You need me the big maaaaaan to make your decisions for you, and even though I chose a woman as my running mate I think women are worth less than I am.'
I mean, where else can you go from there? 'Health, that's been stretched so far.'"
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"As with everything, detractors have risen across the blogosphere mocking those who dare to share in the same way that polite society once shunned those who dared to speak their truths, simple and complex.
But we have our voices and we’ve found courage in those who told their deeply personal stories before us. We’ve found kindred spirits who share our trials and we have opened our eyes to the realities that others are living."
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"When the abortion fiends want get more abortions, they pretend it's the 'mother's health.' Yes, they'll say anything to HAVE ANOTHER THRILLING LATE TERM ABORTION!
Who are these 'exteme-abortion' people, I wonder, that John refers to. Who does he think they are? Socialists? Slutty socialists?"
I heart Susie Bright.
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"It was here, though, that Wosnitzer mentioned that the targeted audience of the film is college students, which upsets me the most. 'The Price of Pleasure' really reinforces the negative stereotypes about sex workers all being victims and used against their will, as well putting a guilt trip on anybody that uses porn. Most college students are still somewhat immature or just exploring their sexuality and this film seems to want to make them feel ashamed about viewing just about anything with sexual content."
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An oldie but a goodie! "When I started dancing it did not occur to me even once to wonder if I was fat. I knew that women looked good and I knew that I was a woman, and that was enough for me (though I was pretty proud of my big boobies). I had been around naked people my whole life (thanks to hippies, saunas, and other group bathing rituals) so strippers were just naked women to me."
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"This is the media once again participating in trans phobia. As I discussed in my post regarding an episode of Bones, it is clear that the media is intent on portraying transsexuals, and transgender people as somehow abnormal and in some cases mentally deficient. It was also not in the least bit accidental that the person that they chose to use as an example was black. "
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"With the hope of teaching us by example, Gira presented us with models of other sex bloggers whose lives have been upset or flat out ruined when they revealed too much online. She also talked about different kinds of sex blogging: the cathartic kind you don’t think anyone will read and then they do, the kind you think will make you famous and it does – but in a bad way, the kind where you think a lot in between writing about actually having sex." Bonnnie Ruberg's write-up of Melissa Gira's Blogging Sex workshop. Soooo wish I could've been there!