It seemed likely that you’d have posted something, at some point, that’d reassure me that I was still on the right track, and here it is. So again, thanks.

I wanted to add some of my comments, because I think pornography is making people all the worse.

There actually is tremedous hostility to women who are against either straight porn OR lesbian porn. The next generation in Los Angeles is quite enchanted with this garbage– all of course under the heading of “fun” “freedom” etc. What I’ve discovered is that a lot of the women who are into all of this were abused as girls, or came from very abusive families or step-families. The more you found out about the lesbian porn advocates, the more you discovered the self-hatred and abuse beneath the radar screen.

Even one of the gay men I know out there who goes to “orgies” all the time and brags about the all the porn he watches, and all the sex he is obsessed with, once admitted in a moment of truth, that he always felt unloved. That his father rejected him for being gay, and that he had extremely low self-esteem. All of this came as quite a shock to me, because he has everything going for him. I was shocked the most at his admission that this orgy filled porn life was the best it was ever going to be for him.

When he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he was so afraid that the treatments would harm his “sexual performance” (men think sex is about performing, and they believe it is all about the penis all the time), that he chose to forgo treatment. The cancer is slow acting, but he will die slowly, all because of his sex addiction.

I tell this stuff to bring home a truth about sexual abuse and pornography. Andrea Dworkin linked the two very effectively. The difficulty is, that on blogs, people get flippant. They just attack anti-porn feminists and drive them off the blog in the first place, and the people who say “they choose to love this stuff” are not honest about who they really are: rejected and sexually abused young people, who are fed into the porn killer machine yet again.

J said something about a, “post-patriarchal world.” LMAO. That is, without a doubt, the most precious statement I have ever seen anyone make. Doesn’t the marginalized status of feminism and the explosion of young women embracing their own oppression tell you anything? Patriarchy is here FOR ETERNITY.

Or only until we smash it.

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Not to be argumentative, but I watched a video at http://web.mac.com/bobbywos/iWeb/Pornography & Pop Culture/Gail Dines.html

which showed that, increasingly, the gonzo porn is showing who hate what is done to them, are crying, etc. That seems to be the appeal for the more misogynistic of porn viewers.

It’s pretty clear that our society is taking away a woman’s right to abortion and contraception, while using “free speech” arguments to further the use of hate speech.

The sanction of violence against women is another indicator that overpopulation has gotten way out of hand.