"How to Read a Dirty Movie" & "All-Girl Action: The History of Lesbian Eroticism in Hollywood"
source: http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2010/06/the-porn-education-roadshow.html...
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At the height of the feminist sex wars, a lurid X-rated slide show toured college campuses, designed to alarm its audiences to the perils of pornography.
It was a fever-inducer.
I responded with two show-and-tell's of my own: "How to Read a Dirty Movie," and "All-Girl Action: The History of Lesbian Eroticism in Hollywood."
The following essay is a review contrasting our two presentations; the so-called "sex positive" and the "anti-porn."
I never read a critique of either of our shows which was more than, "Oh my god, they're showing nekkid people doing it!"
This review, therefore, was fascinating for me and I've always been surprised more people haven't considered it. Eithne Johnson's story is scholarly, published in a film geeks' journal. I'm glad to show it here, in digital form at last. I've included some of my own corrections and reactions in italics.
"In April 1995, MIT graduate students organized a public panel discussion in reaction to a private strip show that had been sponsored by male students in a dormitory. Offended by the idea of this strip show, the graduate students ambitiously wanted their panel to address the issues that they felt it raised: "prostitution, stripping, and pornography." Following advice from friends, faculty, and on-line respondents, the panel organizers decided to provide a "balanced" panel by setting up "pro" and "con" sides. Thus, they imposed this binary opposition on the speakers who (warily) agreed to participate.
More--
http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2010/06/the-porn-education-r...
It was a fever-inducer.
I responded with two show-and-tell's of my own: "How to Read a Dirty Movie," and "All-Girl Action: The History of Lesbian Eroticism in Hollywood."
The following essay is a review contrasting our two presentations; the so-called "sex positive" and the "anti-porn."
I never read a critique of either of our shows which was more than, "Oh my god, they're showing nekkid people doing it!"
This review, therefore, was fascinating for me and I've always been surprised more people haven't considered it. Eithne Johnson's story is scholarly, published in a film geeks' journal. I'm glad to show it here, in digital form at last. I've included some of my own corrections and reactions in italics.
"In April 1995, MIT graduate students organized a public panel discussion in reaction to a private strip show that had been sponsored by male students in a dormitory. Offended by the idea of this strip show, the graduate students ambitiously wanted their panel to address the issues that they felt it raised: "prostitution, stripping, and pornography." Following advice from friends, faculty, and on-line respondents, the panel organizers decided to provide a "balanced" panel by setting up "pro" and "con" sides. Thus, they imposed this binary opposition on the speakers who (warily) agreed to participate.
More--
http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2010/06/the-porn-education-r...
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THIS is a hoot !
"I Kissed A Girl— And It Answered All The Questions"
http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2010/06/i-kissed-a-girl-and-... - 1 year ago
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