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It’s by our new anti-BDSM ally and collaboration partner RepublicofSandals, who does a great job explaining how sadomasochism exemplifies the contradictions, double-think and insanity found in “1984.”
To sum it up, BDSM is SEXUAL ABUSE and a form of OPPRESSION. It is NOT any form of love, freedom, liberation, play, or healthy sexuality.
Please watch it and share your thoughts! Let us know if you agree. Thanks! 🙂
B = Bondage
D = Domination, Dominance, Discipline
S = Sadism, Sadist, Submission, Submissive, Slave
M = Masochism, Master
OTHER DEFINITIONS
(From Random House Dictionary)
SADISM
1. Sexual gratification gained through causing pain or degradation to others. (Psychiatry)
2. any enjoyment in being cruel.
3. extreme cruelty.
MASOCHISM
1. The condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, & humiliation (Psychiatry)
2. gratification gained from pain, deprivation, degradation, etc., inflicted or imposed on oneself, either as a result of one’s own actions or the actions of others, especially the tendency to seek this form of gratification
3. the act of turning one’s destructive tendencies inward or upon oneself
4. the tendency to find pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness, etc
SADOMASOCHISM
1. interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain
2. gratification, especially sexual, gained through inflicting or receiving pain; sadism & masochism combined
WOW. The University of Chicago is helping to fund some students’ memberships in a sadomasochism club. This is so wrong! In so many ways! Don’t you think?
[The College Fix] — Some University of Chicago students may need to add whips, collars and handcuffs to their back-to-school shopping list.
That’s because the elite private college’s Risk-Awareness Consensual Kink student club, affectionately known around campus as RACK, has plans to take field trips to the local kinky sex club.
The visits are eyed for Galleria Domain 2, the windy city’s “place to explore and satisfy your fetish, kink, leather, and BDSM fantasies,” complete with “three rooms of unique, high quality BDSM furniture, two social areas, and a library,” the club’s website states.
Well, at least it has a library, although I’m not sure how much reading goes on in there.
On May 6, the University of Chicago’s Student Government Finance Committee voted 5-0 to approve $300 to help fund trial memberships for students to the club, described at the meeting as “Chicago’s biggest dungeon.”
It was billed as an “opportunity to connect/engage with the broader Chicago kink community … (and) to engage in BDSM activities that are not suitable/appropriate for spaces that students have access to (i.e., in shared apartments or shared rooms),” according to the meeting’s minutes posted online.
They may have a point. Flogging and electrocution might not play so well in the Max Palevsky Residential Commons.
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Right! But who knows, the way things are going, on-campus sexual torture just might be next! 0-0!
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~ It looks like this is not the first time that this University has supported sadomasochistic torture practices of their students:
“In February, the campus hosted a “Taste of Kink” workshop as part of its annual Sex Week activities that allowed students to explore “the exchanges and sensations that can be generated by floggers, rope, electricity and more,” the agenda stated.”
Right! Because sexual sadism, masochism and torture should be part of every students’ formal education! (NOT.)
We encourage everyone to write to the University of Chicago and share their concerns/opinions/objections to allowing and funding this sort of abuse and harmful “education” of their students!
“The University of Chicago is not alone in its student sexual exploration. Harvard University has a club called MUNCH that caters to students who like “alternative sexuality and kink.” So does Columbia University. The University of Michigan recently hosted a BDSM tutorial.
In years past at Yale’s Sex Weeks, they have included everything from sadomasochistic porn screenings to sex toy demonstrations to live nudity in the classroom.”
~ Ouch! We’re not sure how or why the parents of these students are allowing this, or why the U.S. government approves loans for young people to “study” and support sadomasochism and abusive sex, but we sincerely hope that concerned parents, professors, students and others speak up to the appropriate parties to help end this insanity.
“As for these colleges’ Bondage, Dominance, Sadism and Masochism events, they unfold against the backdrop of “50 Shades of Grey,” the soft-porn book sensation (and pending Hollywood hit) that helped normalize painful sex.
If behavior modification is the goal, there’s a captive audience at universities (pardon the pun).”
WOW. A woman is suing Facebook for 123 MILLION dollars because they were VERY slow to remove some revenge porn images posted by a former “friend.”
The legal document states that Ali is seeking “full justice for the significant trauma, extreme humiliation, extreme embarrassment, severe emotional disturbances, and severe mental and physical suffering … due to the unconscionable activities and gross failures of Defendant Adeel and Defendant Facebook.”
Additionally, Ali’s lawsuit claims “seeks to expose the frailties and failures of the falsely advertised, and false promoted privacy mechanisms” of Facebook, and the significant damages that can result from those failings, that she further alleges “Facebook’s upper management, officers, directors and key employees have long known about and essentially concealed.”
Check out the full story below for more details. It’s very interesting. And very relevant to anyone who uses Facebook!
So what does everyone think? Do you think the woman suing should be awarded the full amount? If not, how much should she get? And if Facebook loses this lawsuit, do you think they will change their ways and take quicker action in revenge porn cases in the future?? Please share your thoughts. Thanks! 🙂
The “Fifty Shades of Grey trailer is out and Gail Dines explains in her new article that it’s NOT a “sexy romance,” but rather a sad and tragic tale of ABUSE.
The most likely real-world ending of Fifty Shades of Grey is fifty shades of black and blue. The awful truth in the real world is that women who partner with a Christian Grey often end up hightailing it to a battered women’s shelter with traumatized kids in tow. The less fortunate end up in graveyards.
Right! Feel free to pass this article along to anyone you know who thinks Fifty Shades is just a harmless love story of a rich handsome man in love with a sweet and innocent young woman, who just likes a bit of “kinky fun” in the bedroom…
Also, if you’d like to learn more about the harms of Fifty Shades of Grey in general, feel free to check out our page on this issue at our website. Thanks!
It seems some young men working for the NSA pass around homemade porn they find to each other and think it’s fun… Apparently they think being able to do this is one of the “fringe benefits of surveillance positions.”
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden explains:
“In the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work, for example an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising situation but they’re extremely attractive,” said Snowden.
“So what do they do? They turn around in their chair and they show a co-worker. And their co-worker says: ‘Oh, hey, that’s great. Send that to Bill down the way,’” he said.
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Ouch! So much for respecting people’s privacy. Pretty outrageous, don’t you think?
That said, this demonstrates yet another way the recording of sexually explicit photographs and videos can potentially be problematic and have unintended negative consequences. Something for people to think about before they decide to do something which often can’t be taken back…
In any case, hopefully this particular NSA abuse being exposed will help to end it!
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It’s good to see that porn actor “Mr. Marcus,” who knowingly exposed others to syphilis, has to pay one of his victims a significant amount of damages! It’s some measure of justice, anyway. Hopefully others will note these harsh consequences, and NEVER consider misleading their employers or fellow workers about their STD status and test results!
[Post Periodical] – Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Minning heard testimony Friday from Heather DeAngelo, known in the industry as Lylith LaVey, before ordering Jesse Spencer to pay her $129,360. Spencer did not participate in the court proceedings and was found to be in default.
DeAngelo sued Spencer, also known as Mr. Marcus, in September 2012 after finding out he had the communicable disease, according to her complaint alleging fraud, negligence, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress. The scenes involving DeAngelo and Spencer were filmed in July 2012 in Encino, according to court records.
DeAngelo did not allege she contracted the disease.
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In addition to this latest penalty…
“Last year, Spencer was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years probation for “knowingly exposing at least two co-stars to syphilis after testing positive for the disease days earlier.”
If you missed Monday’s powerful radio interview of ex porn performer “Jessie Rogers” (Jessica Mendes), here’s the podcast below! ~~~ Our wonderful volunteer Jessica does a GREAT job of sharing her story and exposing the true harms and abuses of the toxic porn industry. Listen and find out for yourself!
Many thanks to David Swanson of SwanSong Radio who hosted this very helpful interview! Thanks also to all radio stations that have aired it (such as CJSF), and those will be airing it next week!
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VIDEO: Left of Porn: Radical Exploitation?
– Ben Barker speech at 2013 Stop Porn Culture Conference
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION AND POETRY TEXT: (By poetry author Grainne Humphrys)
Spoken word poetry by creative activist Gráinne Humphrys inspired by frontline anti-porn activist & writer Gail Dines who wrote ‘Pornland’. Here is my fierce warrior ‘Kali the Destroyer’ feminine power addressing the unholy alliance of capitalism, porn & patriarchy.
Just to clarify I am not anti-sex, I am anti-corporate sex! I am against corporate sex because it breeds exploitation, objectification, seperation, disconnect, cruelty and hatred. Like most women, I am also a victim of it. It’s complicated and often emotionally painful. We all have to get through this dark layer in order to be fully liberated.
I have explored both my basic animal/ natural healthy sexuality (lust) and the narcissistic disconnected sado-masochistic, dominance/submission, victim/perpetrator dynamic, dualistic, unhealthy sexuality our culture promotes (hatred and desire). Now I’m working towards a more integrated, connected, holistic, heart-centred sexuality which is a challenge (pathway to the divine). This is Chakra 2 wound healing for me, using Chakra 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 to truly value myself, accept myself and express it for the collective wild feminine!
I have also been a nude model on a number of occasions and I have no problem with erotica or consenting adult artistic depictions of nudity, although I think more critically around it now. Everyone has their own unique sexuality. Mine is a mixture of raw animal magnetism and pure spirit. I’m working on the authentic passionate heart, rather than Donna Juanita’s shallow seductions & conquests.
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‘Warhead’ ~ a poem to our pornified patriarchy & sex obsessed culture, inspired by Gail Dines’ ‘Pornland’ lecture
WARHEAD
You invade me
You possess me
Oppress me
Own me, take me
Claim me as yours
Your penile police brutality
Carving up my territory
Into your laws, rules, codes
Your pictures and your fantasies
Your obscene male supremacy
Your totalitarian
Patriarchal porn state
Overwhelms my psyche, engulfs me
Floods my mind, permeates my soul
Disturbs my balance and
Crushes me with depression
Despair
You infiltrate me
Colonise, conquer and capitalise
Divide the women
Saturate my children
With sexualised objects
Grooming my son to be a sadist
And my daughter a masochist
Feel my fury
And my outrage
You leak into everything
And I see you everywhere
Insideous creep, insatiable greed
If I speak out I am gunned down as
Sex-hating prude
Killjoy, celibate fool
I can’t win
But I fight back with
What you view as rejection, an insult, an affront
To your masculinity
The F word
My refuge
My voice
My power
My reality
My sanity intact
Thanks to
Feminist
Brute, beast
Breasts, thighs, splayed pussies
Cocks rammed into throats, arses
Billions made on the back of
Traumatised, tender women brutalised
Victims all over again
Take it hard, bitch
I resist
Penetration
Sublimation
I am a slut
Whore, Madonna, child
Your warhead holds no bars
Tie me up, gag me
Take me from behind
Anal rampage until my rectum
Collapses and scars my psyche
Sanctioned by our culture
And legislation
Your freedom of speech is my slavery
Perverted justice
I can be bought and sold
Given away and owned
From ‘Stepford wife’ to ‘Stepford slut’
From scrubbing floors to sluttish whore
From fecal throat infection to gonorrhea of the eye
You are the male tyrannical gaze
I am object but invisible
I play out the reflection
Mirrored in your eyes
Dehumanised
Exhausted, weeping
Impossible airbrush
Normalised
I’m saying “fuck me” over and over again
From every magazine
Every billboard
I am For Sale
Commodified
Seducing you through the
Dark, hard lens of a porn machine
You know not
How much you damage me
Violate me
Hurt me
Scarring my divinity
With brutality
No limits
Beyond boundaries
You are de-sensitised
Needing bigger and better
Hardcore highs
Whilst porn addiction is denied
I cry out the despair-void
I cannot contain the Lie
It makes me die inside
If I resist
I am a sadist
Prudish, castrating bitch
Now I’m a porn princess
PVC, MILF, BDSM
Cheerleader, schoolgirl
The endless dodgy dull scenarios
Played out ad infinitum
Slowly killing off my soul
Creeping erosion as the
Porn conveyer belt cracks on
I say you are
Unaware misogynist, a slave to
Porno corporate cock
Distributing death instead of life
Humiliation instead of open celebration
From noble protector to furious rapist
The degenerate prince of sadistic romance
Unseeing, unknowing, unawake
Warhead
An army of hatred
Pretending to be sweet
Crashing onto my shores
You violate, rape, abuse
Rows of girls you claim to adore
And empower
Objectified by your predatory sexual lens
But nothing is what it seems
Brutality and STDS endured
To maintain your sick mirage
Your carnal dream is my living nightmare
Of idealised and humiliated womanhood
Your childhood wound has
Sucked too long on the grey nipple
Drinking in the sinister forces
Of death, hatred, disease
You are cowardice
Spunking arrogance and
Imperialism onto
My feminine empire
My sacred self
Here is a very powerful documentary that shows just how very UNSAFE porn truly is. It was made awhile ago, but the recent HIV outbreak in porn demonstrates that nothing has really changed.
DESCRIPTION: Porn performer Darren James was diagnosed with HIV in early 2004, and then infected several women, which led to a two month shutdown of the adult movie industry in Los Angeles. Featuring Sharon Mitchell, founder of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation and Rob Black, producer of Gonzo pornography.
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NOTE: We are not embedding the video in this post because of how graphic its thumbnail is.
Anti-Porn Film and Slideshow. Plus Stop Porn Culture Info
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"The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships."
See clips: I.e. Noam Chomsky on "choice" in porn.
See the whole film HEREright now at Media Education Foundation.
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