citeva alte resurse care merita citite, pentru context:

The Vibrator-Light-o’-Truth: Erotica, Porn and Selling a Sex Positive America
Girls gone wild & Babes in BushWorld & Feminism Is a Failure, and Other Myths
Of Woman Porn
Feminist Views of Pornography
Research for sex work

eu cred ca discutia despre porn etc. trebuie pusa in contextul potrivit, care nu e alb-negru. ideea cea mai de baza e ca 1. nu exista nici un punct universal valabil despre sexualitatea umana si despre nivelul de confort sau libertate pe care o are fiecare om in privinta propriei sexualitati, si 2. in acelasi timp sexualitatea personala exista in cadrul conventiilor si regulilor impuse de societate, care este adinc patriarhala, materialista, consumista. e incontestabil ca sex work-ul, ca industrie, tinde sa exploateze. pe de alta parte, ce industrie nu exploateaza cit poate mai tare? de ce e sex work-ul vazut atit de diferit? cum putem deconvolutiona cauze de simptome? si cum putem sa criticam ce trebuie criticat si propune solutii fara a intari astfel stigmatizarea si marginalizarea anumitor alegeri sau feluri de expresie a sexualitatii cuiva?

dilema poate fi privita din 2 perspective. mai intii, putem spune ca daca sexualitatea oamenilor e un lucru in primul rind personal si un prerogativ, atita timp cit este influentata de factori socio-culturali si cit devine la rindul ei parte din acesti factori e si un lucru profund politic. sau, un alt mod de-a pune problema ar fi: ca feminist(a), trebuie desigur sa intelegi si sa combati acele structuri opresive care inseamna exploatare pentru femei (si barbati) dpdv sexual (conventiile in ce priveste comportamentul sexual, traficul de fiinte umane, imaginile pornografice care dezumanizeaza sau obiectifica corpul feminin sau normalizeaza violenta sexuala), dar in acelasi timp trebuie sa vezi ca fiecare are dreptul la propriile idei si valori legate de sex, placere, sexualitate si felul in care acestea sint folosite sau manifestate (de ex. a declara ca sex workerii nu pot fi decit exploatati in ceea ce fac, si daca exista unii care au alte pareri atunci ei nu sint destul de constienti, inseamna a adopta o pozitie autoritar-patriarhala fata de sex workeri) .

mai jos sint 3 citate preferate de-ale mele:

“Because of this [“whore”] stigma, which keeps many women from freely exploring, experiencing, and naming their own sexuality lest they be called whore, many critics isolate prostitution from other situations in which women are objectified or their labor exploited, and assume both that any problems associated with prostitution are unique and that the existence of prostitution is the root cause of patriarchal and capitalist objectification, economic exploitation, and violence against all women. From a sex workers’ rights point of view, it is the laws against prostitution and the stigma imposed on sex work that provoke and permit violence against prostitutes, and ensure poor working conditions and the inability of many sex workers to move on to other kinds of work without lying about their experience.” Priscilla Alexander

“… Sex has been distorted and vilified. I’m scared of my attraction to body types. If everything desired is objectified then maybe eroticism needs to be redefined. And I refuse to be a ‘man.’” Propagandhi, “Refusing to be a Man”

“Anti-porn arguments bore me. Such accounts get in bed with right-wingers, infantilize women, condescend to sex workers, refuse to critically consider porn as a social practice, and prescribe what gets to count as “healthy” sexuality (usually vanilla, reproductive heteronormativity). Yawn. / But sometimes, it’s true, as a critical theorist, pro-sex politics also bore me. They sometimes (not always, sometimes) feel limited, especially when what counts as politics is just about fucking. And because I’m a cranky girl, I worry about the very real potential for flattening all those uneven social relations and their histories into a spread-around lack of mind-blowing sex. (If you doubt, did you read the above?) If we meaningfully consider sex and sexuality –especially in its regulation and criminalization—in a dialectic with ideologies of race, gender, nation, capitalism, and material relations, the rhetorical hard-sell of personalized liberation falls flat. / […]To paraphrase critical theorist Lauren Berlant, the real fear in America is not that we –queers, feminists, and others of our kind – will have sex in our bedrooms, but that we will have politics in public.” Mimi Nguyen, “what kind of monster are you?”