Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s move to staff a porn squad, that is. Why? And why now? I can certainly understand that 9/11 greatly derailed the Bush administration’s goal to act against porn. At the time, they’d been lobbied (and lobbied hard) by anti-porn groups to “do something” and then Attorney General John Ashcroft seemed on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A book I was tempted to like is Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. A mild polemic, it explores the apparent proliferation of “raunch culture” where women adopte male attitudes and prowess about sex and sexual presentation, or go the ultimate girlie route and Barbie-ize themselves, or adorn themselves […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a word I think you’re going to hear a lot in coming weeks. And it’s the name of a new book, more completely titled Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families by Pamela Paul. I wrangled and read an advanced reading copy over the summer, but came away unimpressed. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not long ago, I wrote about author Ron Suresha’s struggle with a New London, Connecticut book event and I’m pleased to note that his agitation hasn’t ceased. He’s still getting notice. He has, as well, organized a morning reading of his own to counter the exclusion he and other New London authors have experienced. If […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
blog during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Because I’m not about to change the subject matter of this blog beyond its sex in culture and politics origins, I’m partial to putting the blog on hiatus when calamity strikes. Blogging about the joy of sex in the face of human loss and misery just isn’t my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
blog during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Because I’m not about to change the subject matter of this blog beyond its sex in culture and politics origins, I’m partial to putting the blog on hiatus when calamity strikes. Blogging about the joy of sex in the face of human loss and misery just isn’t my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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