Getting Off Part One: Male Sexuality as Degrading
Trigger warning for mentions of rape. Moderation Note: In this thread, please refer to the ideas of “Jensen” or “sex-negative feminists,” not the ideas of “feminists” or “the feminist movement.”...
View ArticleGetting Off, Part Two: Pornography
This week, on Ozy Is Annoyed At A Radical Feminist… Critique of Porn, ur doin it rong. It’s a common idea that sex-positives think porn should be exempt from gender egalitarian critique. Of course it...
View ArticleGetting Off Part Three: Jensen Gets Something Right
[The phrase "be a man"] is usually connected to one man’s demand that another man be “stronger,” which is traditionally understood as the ability to suppress emotional reactions and channel that energy...
View ArticlePornography Is What the End of the World Looks Like
Pornography, Robert Jensen writes, can dramatically decrease a man’s capacity for empathy.Usually I address my writing about pornography to men, who are the majority of the consumers of sexually...
View ArticleOur Porn, Ourselves
Charlie Glickman maps the sexist anti-porn arguments of radical feminist Robert Jensen.I recently attended a lecture by Robert Jensen, noted radical feminist, anti-pornography activist, and one of...
View ArticleThe Utility of Violent Porn
Under what circumstances is it acceptable to simulate non-consensual or violent sex?Defining pornEveryone has their own images of what porn is, their own definitions, and, it seems, objections to what...
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