Assumptions

I’ve noticed that there’s a core assumption people in the West tend to carry around – maybe people all over the world – which goes something like this: “People are basically like me.”

Porn as a Form of Female Empowerment

I really should have talked about Belle Knox before now. I blog about porn, and yet when a porn-related news story gets international attention I don’t mention it? What’s wrong with me? (Then again, my blogging about porn is more related to my own likes and dislikes, so maybe it’s not such a big deal…)

Savita Bhabhi, and Feminism

Once again it’s time to dip into the Impenitent Porn Lover mailbag and answer some reader mail. I’ll choose a letter at random:

Dear Thinking Inside Your Box:

You write about feminism a lot, but you clearly have no qualifications to do so – and that’s good enough for me!

So tell me: do you think feminism can ever be counterproductive? And what about this whole Savita Bhabhi thing in India?

With love, A Reader Who is Clearly Not Thinking Inside Your Box, But Somebody Else

Another excellent question! My readers are clearly intelligent and articulate people, so I don’t know why I don’t do this reader mailbag thing more often. And as it happens I know about the Savita Bhabhi thing this reader is referring to. (What luck!)

Feminism (long)

Alternate Title: Feminism? (long)

Let’s go back in history for a second. Waaaay back. Not quite to the primordial soup, but almost. People who subscribe to the theory of evolution – many Americans don’t but most of the civilized world does – believe that for much of human history, the vast majority of it, we lived in a world which was harsh and unforgiving, in which the strength of men was needed to protect women and children from the elements and from predators. Men slew beasts, built shelter, and mastered fire. (Actually it doesn’t necessarily have to have been men who mastered fire, it could have been women, but we usually lump the mastery of fire along with the slaying of beasts and building of shelter and whatnot.) Later on men also mastered the art and science of farming, to which women may very well have contributed but it took a lot of muscle power to make it happen, so it was still very much a male-dominated type of work.

Thank You Ladies!

When I was growing up, and even into my early adult years, porn wasn’t easy to come by. You had to buy magazines or videos or go to one of those adult theatres (where the floors are probably covered in old, sticky cum). Now it’s quite easy to get porn of any type through the internet, meaning that a lot more people are consuming porn than ever before. It also means that the demographics of porn consumers are changing; people are probably consuming porn at younger ages than in times past, but more importantly (for this post) women are also viewing porn more than they have in the past.