bluecoat28 wrote:Oh Joy. I've decided to begin my "hentai-awareness for antipornstars" project tonight! Sometimes I don't think there is a PURPOSE in me doing this project, because hentai is so overthetop obviously pedophilic and mysoginistic... I GUESS I will continue with it though and show my findings to National Feminist Antipornography Movement members on July 21st's antiporn potluck... If any of you are around Massachussetts that date, send me a private message and I can give you more info about the event. The person who's in charge of it wants it to be women-only.
There is definately a purpose for it bluecoat, if a recent discussion at the livejournal's anti-porn group is any indication. One member posts:
"How do you feel about 'cartoon porn'? Maybe I'm questioning how much control I have over myself, I'd be worried about giving this up. I felt really good about limiting myself solely to cartoon porn, and it clearly helped reverse some of the desentisation porn had given me. I am a bit confused over where I stand on everything."
"It just takes over your head less. Maybe it all merges more, more relaxed because no real people. So the positive and negative shares more of the space, to be simplistic. I'm just thinking aloud. It's true they have spy bots and suchlike, not even going that far they put you into a seperate stream really. I find it so much less about the bodies and more the situations. And it's pretty easy practically and psychologically to go towards some decent stuff. some of the bdsm of male domination etc has women depicted really un-tackily, actually explores different ideas of a woman or situation a submissive male would find erotic.
Also my gf can accept it, even enjoys them too, when I haven't just let my mind rot like watching crap on tv.
I am leaning more towards totally giving up all porn though, perhaps it's the one place where my principles are obliged to take precedence. (Especially after the dream I had last night. I was like a preacher come down from the mountains, pushing people to reconsider their stance on porn and porn-like things (a sort of BDSM Big Brother, after reading about the pornification of our society, one of the links on oneangrygirl). not long later i ended up in a bath in a shitty public changing place with an unpredictable gang of lads stamping about)"
I have a harder time visiting that group than I do this one because many of the members are a little insecure about their stance because of all of the peer pressure to accept it; they want to appear like they're not sexually uptight. Some members find it genuinely difficult to stay away from porn and write about the times they lapse, which is angering for obvious reasons.
But I will give it credit, because there are some great posts there and some members who are very committed, but the level of insecurity on the board doesn't make it feel like a movement.
That's why I give props to Genderberg. This place has restored my sanity on more than 5 occasions.
So in short bluecoat, yes it's needed; Because people have difficulty figuring out why it may be sexist when there are no real women involved - even well-meaning anti-porners.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:34 pm
. I am going to the National Women's Studies Association Conference in Chicago until July 1st (so 3 days at the conference) and hopefully I'll learn about what the association has to say about antipornstitution. If I hear anything, I'll post it here.
I'm twenty-two years old right now... maybe I will write a critical analysis of hentai during my lifetime and you all can read it. We'll see. hehe that would be nice if I accomplished that. 
