Too smart for the 'sex poz'

Resources:
http://www.voicesmatter.org/stories.html
http://www.notforsaleboston.wordpress.com
http://www.ncf.ca/ip/social.services/rape.crisis/porno.txt
http://www.sexindustrysurvivors.com
http://www.victimsofpornography.org
http://www.xpalss.org
http://prostitutionresearch.com/blog

Andrea Dworkin on the fallacy of 'biological superiority'. Essential reading for all thinking people: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIIID.html

To confront pornography and listen to the women hurt in it and by it, and still to cast pornography as merely a free speech issue, or merely as a matter of who feels offended by what, requires a stunning exercise of deliberate blindness, an extraordinary numbing of one's basic capacities of sympathy, moral identification, and outrage. It indicates that privilege is being defended with all the perceptual and conceptual resources at one's disposal -- the privilege of being a man, yes, but also the relative comfort of being a woman who believes it cannot and will not happen to her.

Rebecca Whisnant

Suppose you want to write
Of a woman braiding
Another woman's hair-
Straight down, or with beads and shells
In three-strand plaits or corn-rows-
You had better know the thickness
The length the pattern
Why she decides to braid her hair
How it is done to her
What country it happens in
What else happens in that country

You have to know these things

Adrienne Rich

[W]hen you are powerless, you don't just speak differently. A lot, you don't speak. Your speech is not just differently articulated, it is silenced. Eliminated, gone. You aren't just deprived of a language with which to articulate your distinctiveness, although you are; you are deprived of a life out of which articulation might come. Not being heard is not just a function of a lack of recognition, not just that no one knows how to listen to you, although it is that; it is also silence of the deep kind, the silence of being prevented from having anything to say. Sometimes it is permanent.

Catharine MacKinnon

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