Deep thinky thots on porn and such

[valarltd]

I was reading some feminist blogs before lunch. They are universal of their condemnation of pornography as a male-dominated commodification of women.

Which leaves me wondering about my own second job.

I am a woman, writing erotica (porn with better lighting and production values) for other women, being published by a female-run small press.

Aside from the fictional characters and one male editor, I'm not sure how men or the patriarchy comes into this at all. It all feels very lesbianic, especially when I'm writing f/f. I'm writing women making love to women, in order to please and arouse other women who will pay me, through the agency of a female company.

Yet, I'm told lesbians have no sexual agency under patriarchy.

Now I'm all conflicted and confused. I think I'll go be an agent of either compliance or subversion and go write another pegging scene.

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I believe the "all porn is bad" school of feminism comes from an extremely academic stream of thought that veers into nearly-posthuman territory with its ideas on society and images. I think these are good ideas, mind, but they're not really down-to-Earth ideas.

In most feminist blogs I've seen, "porn" is shorthand for "mainstream visual porn," and when exceptions like Torquere are brought up, the discussion heads back towards the ideas in my first paragraph.

I'm ambivalent about pornography, but I see much of it as being a symptom of a sick culture, not a cause.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I don't much like visual porn. The videos are dull and mechanical and in photos, women always look uncomfortable and bored. I have not, so far, found any hardcore exception to this in 20+ years of watching porn on and off.

Softcore stuff, where there's an actual movie around all the sex, seems to vary. Young Lady Chatterly was hot hot hot when I was a 17 year old virgin. It's still pretty hot today as a jaded 39.


On the other hand, I find written smut varies wildly. The TQ stuff is almost universally good (there has been the occasional story whose style was too experimental for me). Nifty varies wildly, but tends to come down on the "barely passable" to "unreadble" end of the scale.

I'm not sure I had a point.

Oh, yeah.

They'll take my smut away when they pry my cold, dead fingers off the keyboard.

(And won't that be a scene?
"Mama!" yells 16 year old Lilith. "Mama, Grandma's not breathing!"
Bun comes in.
"But oh mama, I didn't know two girls could DO that!" Lilith says reading over my dead shoulder.
"Hush, sweetie and ask your mom about it," says Bun, saving the document.)

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Since I find your pirate porn hot as hell, I have no moral standing, here. ;)