The SmackDog Chronicles (Ver. 2.5)

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  The continuing rantings of a Black middle-aged political Leftist and sex-radical progressive. (Charter member of the Sex-Pox Brigade since 2005)

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Behind the Crunch Again....And Notes on Kyle Payne by Anthony on July 11th, 2008
Well...I'm behind the crunch again....had to go offline a bit due to the same old issues. I'm doing my best to get back online ASAP..so bear with me. In the meantime, I couldn't help but comment on the Cat 5 blogstorm currently ongoing in the feminist blogosphere over the legend of Kyle Payne: self-identified male feminist, hardcore antiporn activist.....and convicted sex predator. Renegade Evolution, as usual, has been the point woman for exposing Mr. Payne's dual life and hypocrisy (starting here and moving on to here, here, here, and here; although Belledame should get first credit for initially discovering this slimeball). It seems, though, that Payne has managed to do what two years of Porn Sex Wars couldn't do: unite antiporn radfems and sex poxxies together in shared mutual outrage. (See Ren's blogroll of posts on the matter.) All I will say for now is this: if the GenderBorg is so willing to accept this sleazoid so easily into their midst due to his "activism", while slandering people like moi who use porn and still manage to treat women with respect and humanity, then they are so much worse and closer to the Radical Right than I ever, ever feared. I'll probably have more to say on this when I'm able to get back online regularly. Oh....and show some love to the God Emperor, too, when you visit there: getting burnt really does suck. Seriously. Ouch.  ...

Why Bashing Antiporn Fascists Never Makes Me Sad by Anthony on June 30th, 2008
[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.

Responding to NoPornNorthHampton: by Anthony on June 26th, 2008
Ahhh..lookee here. It seems that my commentary on Gail Dines and her appearance on Penn and Teller: BULLSHIT! seems to have attracted some interest. Particularly, the good folks at NoPornNorthhampton, who just so happened to break me off a comment attempting to refute my and P&T's takedown of Dines' fundamental makeup of porn and its supposedly harmful effects. In particular, this section which I wrote in the original: OK….so the fact that it’s mostly girl/girl sex and solo masturbation scenes and mostly “vanilla” hetero scenes found in most porn sites and movies which make up nearly 80 to 90 percent of the porn being viewed in the US means absolutely nothing to Professor Dines; it’s that nasty-ass gonzo and the circus-sex acts of facials and anals and gangbangs that really count… [....] Apparantly, Adam or one of his groupies had an issue with that; using a "recent academic study" that attempted to analyze porn DVD titles from the Adult Video News website to prove me wrong. Wosnitzer: “We went through Adult Video News every month. [It] publishes a list of the top 250 best sold and rented adult DVDs… [W]e avoided the issue of ‘What is pornography?’ because AVN defined it for us, in a sense… We took the top 50 from each month, went back over a six month period, randomly generated took the top 50 films. We coded by scene. We had a total of 304 scenes that we coded over this randomly generated list of the top 50 films… Wosnitzer: “We can read aggression and violence defined as any action causing or attempting to cause physical or psychological harm to oneself, to another person, animal or inanimate object, intentionally or accidentally, whereby physical harm is understood as assaulting another verbally and nonverbally…” Bridges: “…I’m going to begin to talk about what it is that we found after looking at these 304 scenes in these 50 top selling pornographic films. In total in the 304 scenes we coded a total of 3,376 acts of aggression. That ends up averaging…to an aggressive act every minute and a half. The scenes on average contained eleven and a half acts of verbal or physical aggression…” Now first off: these folks do know that analyzing this "random generated" (more like, pulled out of their asses) list or "top 50 videos" ignores the main point that most of the more popularly consumed and produced porn comes directly off the Internet, not from the major porn studios...and that analyzing 50 videos out of nearly hundreds if not thousands of adult videos that are released every year probably wouldn't reflect the true diversity of content of porn in the first place. Then there is their quaint and very open definition of "aggression". which could include anything from an overly aggressive kiss or an insertion of the digits into another person's naughty bits (remember, in Dines and NPNH's worldview, any means of penetration of a woman is de facto defined as near rape, regardless even of the woman's stated wishes), to open-handed slaps on the face or breasts or buttocks; to direct physical attacks designed to maim or injure. Not to mention the "verbal aggeression", which basically can be reduced to: "He called her a WHORE, a BITCH, a C*NT!! He said one of those seven dirty words!!! Oh, the humanity!!!" The notion that dirty talk is designed more as a turn-on for the woman as much as for the man seems to be absent from their "studies"...but then again, actually pursuing the opinion and thoughts of the actual actors in those scenes probably wasn't in their minds when they cooked up this "study", now wasn't it?? Bridges: “We also coded for, what…we’re calling loosely in this talk, ‘extreme acts’ (of sex acts). The only sexual sequence that we coded, which is…when one thing follows another, was something called ATM…’ass-to-mouth’. This literally involves anal penetration followed by oral sex…she is literally eating her own shit. That occurred in 41% of the scenes that we coded…” Ahhhh, dude...I've seen my share of ATM (and ATOGM) scenes, and I can attest with absolute certainty that there is positively, absolutely NO "shit-eating" involved at all. In fact, the performers of such acts are thoroughly prepared well in advance for those scenes through enemas and douching and all other precautions to insure that no "accidents" even remotely occur. Perhaps you got that confused with the "scat porn" study??? And considering how open your concept of "aggressive" sex acts are, how can we know that you have not taken liberties with your definition of "extreme" sex acts, too?? Would that include plain anal scenes (of course, taking a dick up the ass must be total rape, because no respectful woman would ever enjoy such a deviant...errrrr, patriarchial activity?? Or...gang bangs (read: sex with more than one man)??? Or blowjobs leading to facials (because REAL women prefer their sex strictly missionary, and with none of the nasty sperm present...eeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!! How gross!!!) And why deal with percentages, anyway.....why not just state the number of scenes you saw that contained the offensive acts....or, better yet, just name the movies and the scenes so that anyone wishing to analyze your study for accuracy can see them for themselves?? Bridges: “Slapping happened 30% of the time… Most of the aggressors in these films were men…73%. By far the most common recipient of aggression was a woman. Even when women were aggressing, they were generally aggressing other women…” Bridges: “How did the person respond when they were aggressed?… In 95% of these 3,000 and some acts of aggression, the person was either neutral, as in no change of facial expression or verbal expression, or was sort of saying, ‘That feels great. Keep doing it. Right on.’ And in only 3% did we see some overt expression of displeasure or pain. Again, it seems to be very important to the people who are watching this to believe that the recipient of aggression is fact enjoying it, is choosing it at some level…” Ahhh, but...

Why Ren Ev Is God Emperor of Rome...and Gail Dines Her Personal Pinata by Anthony on June 24th, 2008
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.

Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" Calls Out Gail Dines' BS...Tastes Like Crow, Professor?? by Anthony on June 23rd, 2008
This almost makes up for the passing of that bad-ass motherfucker George Carlin this morning.

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On Responding to NoPornNorthHampton: by iamcuriousblue on July 15th, 2008
Yes, I remember listening to video explaining the study in question.

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