[Inspired by Caroline's brilliant essay over at Uncool]

You know that I spend a lot of bandwidth here focused on exposing what I see are the lies and total wrongness of antiporn activism, especially from those pretending to be from the Left or the liberal perspective.

I’m sure that you have wondered out loud why I have such an obsession with these folks, and why shouldn’t I refocus this blog on more mundane matters, like, say, Obama’s historic candidacy or the upcoming hurricane season or the regular heat and humidity of South Louisiana??

Wehhheeelllll, Clones….if you really, really want to know, then I will amuse you with an answer.

It’s all about defending innocent people who do no harm to themselves or others against slander.

It’s all about defending the basic essential principle of social solidarity combined with respect for choice and diversity in all matters, from economics to sex.

It’s about debunking and demystifying all the rumors and memes put forth about not only the people who perform explicit sexual imagery and acts by their own choice, but those who actually enjoy the fruits of their labor.

But, mostly, because you can always count on the stupid, the insane, the totally whack, and the outright bigoted crackpot statement from the more strident of the “antipornradfems” which practically screams for a rebuttal.

Yes, I’m sure that the usual suspects do monitor and on occasion even will troll my blog so that they can fire their popguns at me for being such an evil defender of rape and murder.  I’m almost sure that Witchy-Woo, Maggie, Stormy, Sam Berg, Gooney Stan Goff, Bob Jensen, and all the rest of the AntiPorn Posse are already loading up their ammo to unload on me for  wanting to “increase men’s sexual access to women”; for being Renegade Evolution’s “pimp” (yeah, right, as if Ren Ev can’t make her own damn money on her own using her own damn talents; her use of sex being not even the best of these….and BTW, that is a high credit to her indeed, considering her sexual talents); and for basically being….well, a man who’s not afraid of either his dick or his brain and still willing to respect women for being human beings.

And that brings me to the final and ultimate reason why I will continue to bring the noise whenever it is needed; and to continue to tweak the noses of these bluenose pseudofeminists and their Christian Right allies in sexual reaction.  Actually, it’s more like several reasons, having mostly to do with some very intelligent, very talented, and very sexy women whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, debating, and even chatting with online. All of them have been associated in one way or another with performing or producing erotica/porn; and each have had their own unique experiences therein: the beautiful as well as the painful; the ecstasy as well as the agony. And yet, all of them have managed through their own ways to educate me more than any book or theory that sexual women can be as thoughtful, as passionate, and as human as any other woman or person on this earth.

Even if I never ever meet them face to face, they will have enriched my life and my brain (the big one between my shoulders as well as the little one between my legs) to my eternal benefit. And the best thing is….they still are.

Consider this collage of my inspirational erotic women my “Kiss my ass, suckas” tribute to the Antiporn Fascist League.

(Just a heads up: the pics are sexy yet safe; I can’t guarantee anything about either the women included therin or the embedded links; those specifically NSFW will be marked as such.)

Shauna O’Brien: Former Penthouse Pet/Softcore Erotica Super Diva/All-Around Baaaad-Asssss (Now Retired) Some background on her can be found here; see also this story on how Shauna dealt with a troll who questioned her abilities and profession.

Nina Hartley (Warning, link NSFW):  The one, the only, and the original…and the closest representative to Aphrodite we have on this earth. Enough. Freakin’. Said.

Vicky Vette (link NFSW): From corporate management to softcore modeling to hardcore porn to her own successful adult website: A bad girl done good.  Damn good.  And damn fine, too. (And her brains and heart are even bigger than her boobs, too.)

Keisha (another NSFW link): You do know that she’s pursuing a Masters’ Degree in Psychology, do you?? It should match her Doctorate in Sex pretty well, shouldn’t it??

Allie Chase (aka Naughty Allie): Computer geek by day; amateur swinging seductress by night…proof that you don’t have to be a professional porn actress to play the slut. Except…she does a lot more than just play.

Bridgett Lee (link NSFW. again): The Florida Sun Coast’s reigning hottest MILF…and a woman who has lived through one hell of a ride.

And, last only in this chronology, but never in rank, the Henchwoman/Roman God Emperor known as Renegade Evolution…..you think that I’d be “pimping” her for nothing??

For these fine ladies, I fight to my death.  Though, it’s so much better to stay alive to enjoy them.

Thems who hate on them and me for liking them as women: Just kiss it….then just SYAD and STFU.  And have a nice Fourth of July holiday, too.

As if there wasn’t enough reason to heart Renegade Evolution for being as brainy and passionate as she is sexy:

Gail Dines, Her Porn Training Program, and Me

It’s VERY long, but every word is worth the read….a total debunking of the antiporn “feminist” nonsense from pillar to post and back again.

For those of you who think that you are an ally of sex workers, here’s a reality checklist from Renegade Evolution that you might want to read up on. There will be a quiz later on on this.

Some of them aren’t big names. There are writers, bloggers, so on, out there who like to say or think they are allies, but they aren’t. Being an ally has some guidelines, after all. I mean, let us look at this logically and such:

-If you support anything that might endanger the health of a sex worker, you are not an ally.
-If you support anything which might affect the legal standing, legal rights, and legal recourses of a sex worker, you are not an ally.
-If you actively seek to silence the words of sex workers, you are not an ally.
-If you advocate anything that impedes progress for sex workers rights, you are not an ally.
-If you support anything that keeps sex workers engaging in business in unsafe, criminalized, unregulated conditions, you are not an ally.
-If you infringe upon or disrupt a sex worker’s ability to earn a living, you are not an ally.
-If you patronize, mock, insult, judge, presume to speak for, speak over, lie about, threaten, slander, hack, make assumptions about, or belittle sex workers, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to alter your terminology to suit terms sex workers prefer, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to recognize sex work extends beyond street prostitution, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to recognize the humanity of sex workers, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to recognize many sex works are adults with a level of autonomy, you are not an ally.
-If you refuse to recognize that many people in sex work would choose other options if they were available, you are not an ally.
-If you actually do nothing to help sex workers in the here and now, you are not an ally.
-If you take on a savior, superior attitude towards sex workers, you are not an ally.
-If you use sex workers words, images, ideas, writings, or experiences without their consent or knowledge, you are not an ally.
-If you use sex workers to further your wider agenda or goal without their consent, you are not an ally.

Got it? Hey, you might pass the “you’re not a feminist if” tests, but if you fail here, you are no fucking ally to sex workers.

Excerpted from here.

I have mentioned how much she kicks serious ASS, haven’t I?? And her’s isn’t half bad, either….

Nina Hartley’s site got seriously hacked last week, and the resulting consequences are as severe as the attack.

Ernest Greene has the update and the repercussions here.

To put it simply….I am numb today.

Speechless. Stunned.

Horrified.

The way I was on September 11, 2001.

The target may have been one woman, but the repercussions affect us all. Especially those of us who believe in more open sexual expression.

And the worst thing is…they could hit your favorite site next.

It’s not just about 2257 or the DoJ’s obscenity unit anymore…..what the government cannot do to censor and silence women like Nina, the cyber-terrorists will. And they won’t stop with Nina, either.

Are you going to do something about it??? It’s your freedoms, after all.

‘Ya think that all it takes to succeed as a male porn performer is merely to show off photos of your erection to every porn girl message board or adult social website or blog??

Well, buddy…you need to get your ass over to Renegade Evolution’s blog RIGHT FREAKING NOW and read Ernest Greene’s guest entry on the realities of being a male sex performer.  It’s long, but it is worth the time.

And when you are done, please try to tell me that the men who do sex work aren’t any less WORKERS who deserve as much respect and support as any coal miner, any domestic worker, any construction worker…indeed, ANY working man.  That they use their penises as much as their hands and other muscles of their bodies makes no difference.

That we supposedly workers’ right activists exclude female sex workers from our progressive working-class movements is criminal.  That we exclude the men who work with them is downright freakin’ INSANE…and absolutely SUICIDAL.

Just another reason why sex-negativity and not including sex radicalism KILLS the Left.

Both Ren Ev and Jill Brenneman have now posted their own reviews of the debate….and I can’t decide which one is better.

Ren’s reset includes nice pictures of the debators and a nice review of what went down.

Jill’s reset, though, contains a detailed and complete rebuttal and refutation of all the crackpot charges against the debate organizers for “rigging” and setting Sam Berg up.

Oh, well…..read them both and catch the truth behind the noise.

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Update: Karla Mantilla, who was the fill-in  replacement for Sam Berg at the W&M debate, has posted her own accounting of the debate at the official website for the event: pornographypanel.blogspot.com She has also released a statement expressing her support for Sam and her positions, that was read by Heart as a comment to Heart’s blog entry piece in “solidarity” with Sam.  And as usual, the usual GenderBorg Collective were in full force: Arxanta, Luckynkl, Satsuma, and Maggie Hays, among others, give their hosannas to Karla and Sam for representing the good fight against the evol of Jill and Ren Ev.

For those of you who are under the impression that Britney Spears is the only female artist who can portray “the sexxxxaaaaayyyy”…..sit yourself down, tone down the noise, and witness how a REAL master does sexy video….and note that Olivia manages to keep her clothes ON for the entire video (save for the shower scene at the “breakdown”:guitar solo).

She may have been more of a soft pop/country diva before that time, and she may be more known for her trials and travails (two stalkers, a victorious bout with breast cancer, and the heartbreak over her still lost current boyfriend) afterward…..but for the time between 1978 (when the mega-musical Grease was released) to around 1983, it was all Olivia’s world….and this was her masterpiece song and video that ruled the charts (a then record tying 10 consecutive weeks at Billboard’s #1 slot from November 1981 to February 1982), rocked the boomboxes, and  stiffened the…..imaginations of millions of growing young men at that  time.

Flip the switch, Olivia, and let’s do this.

Olivia Newton-John: “Physical” Video (1981, Physical); via YouTube (h/t to Isla Edwards)

Just call her my musical Headbussa.  And she can actually SING, too.

‘Ya see…this ‘Dog’s not just about Teh Sex, you know.