This is a cross-post from TinyNibbles.com (NSFW) written by Thomas Roche and published here on Our Porn, Ourselves with permission. Some links are not work-safe.
As Violet mentioned in a Nibble earlier this week , anti-porn crusader Gail Dines ‘ May 18 piece in the Sydney Morning Herald got negative responses not just from many of our fellow sex-positive writers but from commenters at the Herald itself. From the looks of the comments in the Herald , readers in Australia (where porn is de facto illegal ) aren’t having it. Dines’ first misstep may have been in attacking home-grown Australian wonder AbbyWinters.com , which is about as sex-positive and mellow as one can
For me to disagree with Dines is not news — though Dines’ article does, to me, put the Herald ‘s May 6 article on the Feminist Porn Awards in sort of an Orwellian light. Responses from the sex-positive world have been strong, as they are whenever Dines opens her mouth. Never mind that The Sexacademic Jessi Fischer laid the groundwork for exposing Dines as a wingnut, when Fischer ran an awesome piece earlier this month on compulsive porn viewing from a scientific perspective. The Herald published a nice resp