That something, which is not,
Nevertheless should populate
Empty night more solidly
Than that with which we copulate,
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
That something, which is not,
Nevertheless should populate
Empty night more solidly
Than that with which we copulate,
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
You may discover that while you enjoy one another's company and have fabulous sex, your habits regarding housing, money, possessions and so on are wildly incompatible.
Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt: The Ethical Slut
When was the last time you thought of the internet as a weird and wonderful place?
When was the last time the internet made you feel good?
When was the last time the internet gave you hope?
When was the last time you felt free on the internet?
Often the answer lies in providing people with a counter-ideology that both reveals the fabricated nature of consumer ideology and offers an alternative vision of the world. A counter-ideology to porn would similarly need to disrupt and interrupt its messages, and it would have to be as powerful and as pleasurable as porn, telling men that porn’s image of women is a lie, fabricated to sell a particular version of sex. This alternative ideology would also need to present a different vision of heterosexual sex, one built on gender equality and justice. Few men are exposed to such a feminist ideology.
Gail Dines: Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often in forms that look very little like sex but a lot like cruelty.
Gail Dines: Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality