Jackson Katz wrote me several supportive emails a few years ago. In one he says I totally agre with you that the mainstreaming of pornography is a terrible development and he fears it’s only going to get worse,and then he told me about this book he was working on. In another email he said he thinks the reason that some women even some who call themselves “feminists” are supporting pornography now,is a misguided attempt to appear so-called “liberated” and to appeal to men,but he said there are a lot of people out there including many men who are educating about the truth about pornography.

I want to describe this workshop called Pornography:What’s The Harm? by anti-sexist anti-violence therapist Rus Ervin Funk from the web site of The Center For Women and Families in Marcch 2005. It says Join The Center For Women and Families in this frank conversation about pornography and the harm it causes to the women and men used in it’s production to women and men through men’s use of pornography,to women in general,and to sexual,gender and racial justice.This discussion will include ways to combat pornography and to support the people who are harmed. Facilitated by Rus Ervin Funk MSW,The Center For Women and Families Part of Sexual Asault Awareness month. Co-sponsored by the Jefferson County Chapter of The National Organization For Women and The Women’s Center For Growth and Leadership at Jefferson Community College.

Your rage and energy on these topics is welcome and wonderful, and my first thought when I read your comments above was that you’d do well to get a blog yourself. Then Twisty took a moment to reply to you, and then it appeared you took her comments (or perhaps her lack of some highly specific response you had been anticipating) to mean things I’m pretty sure Twisty didn’t mean.

A couple of things:

1) While I wouldn’t dare attempt to speak for Twisty (the still fairly Young Onion in me remains both theoretically, and to a lesser degree generationally, deferential to the far more experienced and knowledgeable Spinster Aunt) but since she’s said as much in her replies to you, I think it’s pretty damned safe to say she’s on your side. You might safely assume that the average reader of this blog is also on your side.

2) Damn straight, you should get thee a blog. Not because your ideas, experience, research, etc. don’t merit airing here in the comments (that’s not my call anyhow), but because why not? I’m pretty sure folks would want to read you and learn from what you have to say. If you are so inclined, I’d be happy to give you some pointers on starting out on such a quest (in which case, feel free to contact me). And I have a massive list of antiporn resources, blogs, etc. that you might like to network with.

3) If you’re not inclined to blog as such, but you’re interested in engaging in a very active way with others working against pornography, on a site where specific pieces of research such as that which you’ve referenced above are likely to generate a broad response (maybe closer to the responses you seem to be seeking, from my highly subjective vantage point in all this), I highly recommend the bulletin boards at Genderberg.com.

4) It’s my impression that Twisty probably gets an assload of email and comments on any given day. I twittered with embarrassingly girlish glee when she responded to a very few of these I’d posted, and did not sulk needlessly that I didn’t get some highly detailed narrative responding to each and every thing I’d articulated. It’s her blog, and she’s going to write whatever she damn well pleases (both in posts and comments) and has the time for (she also has a non-blogging life!). I take what she offers here as a gift, pure and simple, and I’m grateful for it.

Best regards – Victoria

Why do you say that I’m just making personal rants against pornography when I have given a lot of strong factual informaton to make the case against it! And when you say my “views” against pornography and that most people on here agree with it, how is it just a “view” that pornography is harmful very sexist,dehumanizes women and has woman hating in it just a “view” and how could any true feminist visiting here not be afgainst that?