Clipmarks - Anti-porn Clipmarks

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POPS Complaining about sexism means you're a "ranty-pants"?

by Lexica 9-30-2009

More: You don't have to be anti-sex, or even anti-porn, to chafe at a dominant aesthetic that just happens to play right into the pocketbooks of the beauty and anti-aging industries. Our cultural preference for skinny, nubile women is at least as much about money as it is about male desire — and it's about the least taboo thing I can imagine. Rebelling against a system that actually tells men what to like — as well as, of course, telling women how to be — actually seems kind of sexy. And refusing to do what you're told — in this case, to quietly accept sexism so as not to seem "strident" — can be exciting. So rather than reading Turner's new column…as the blotter of the fun police, I'm going to think of it as a dispatch from the fun radicals, a textual Molotov tossed into the edifice of institutionalized misogyny. And I'm going to enjoy it.

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POPS British try to ban 'extreme' porn

by dmtherob 12-30-2008

Extreme porn as defined by the British: is grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" and portrays in any way an act which threatens a person's life, or which results or appears likely to result in serious injury to someone's genitals or breasts.

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POPS Will Religious Fundamentalists Use "Porn" Law to Suppress Religious Minorities

by nedhamson1 10-30-2008

Fundamentalism, whether it is Christian, Hindu, or Muslim is based on fear and most often uses that fear to politically suppress and exclude those who have another view or culture.

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POPS Bali Hindus Challenge Indonesian Porn Legislation

by Jorjor 9-20-2008

It's time for a clip that has nothing to do with US politics: Usually when we hear about religious minorities making a fuss about anti-porn laws, it's because they're not restrictive enough. But Bali's 93% majority Hindus fear that the new, draconian laws being contemplated by the rest of Indonesia's Muslim majority will trample on local customs such as erotic temple statuary and threaten the tourist trade - skimpy is a word that barely describes the swimwear on Bali's beaches (pun intended) Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said, "Many people in Papua still live naked or half-naked. Are we going to arrest them all?" Bali is home to Legian beach, the only publicly acknowledged clothing-optional beach in Indonesia.

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POPS I like this guy :-)