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

[jlm121.livejournal.com]

Where do you start

Women controlling their sexuality and using erotica and porn to do such.
Women who like gay porn and slash is the an attempt to feminize men and or an attempt understand them, or does it suggest a lack of self worth.
it all tends to make my head hurt

I like erotica. I tend to stray to the slash side because honestly it attracts a lot of good writers. Het tends to be very conventional and when it isn't it can border on scary with some exceptions. I like gay porn cause, hey for the most part it's like m&ms, one hot guy is good, two hot guys is better. I don't get 70s and 80s ugly actor porn, unless it was so homophobic that the guys had to be getting off on the girl, cause thinking the guy was hot was out of the question.

this makes absolutely no sense because I am tired and stressed out. I am going to go read slash. To hell with the patriarchial hierarchy

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Works for me.