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The trailer for the documentary “Scarlet Road” about a sex worker who focuses on men who are mentally/physically/developmentally disabled.  As a guardian/student teacher of people with disabilities, this brings tears to my eyes.  I wish that my 20 year-old kid (actually sister, but I largely raised her) had this opportunity to experience sex in a safe and comfortable environment like the men in this vid.  So many people think that mentally and physically disabled people don’t experience any sexual desire (even involved parents who are otherwise educated about said conditions).  I try and combat this stereotype whenever I encounter it (resulting in lots of awkward impassioned speeches).  This DOESN’T MEAN REPRODUCTION.  I don’t want my sister to reproduce, as she neither likes children nor is capable of caring for them (plus odds are any offspring would have major developmental problems).  I still want her to happily experience this major facet of the human experience though.  (Plus I’d like to limit the number of times I walk in on her masturbating as it is mortifying).  Individuals with disabilities fantasize about the same things the rest of us do, and shouldn’t have to live without the sex they desire simply because of the way they were born.  I know of at least one disabled man who has a relationship with a female sex worker and he is one of the happiest disabled adults I know (which is at least 40 individuals).  We all deserve to have that chance.  Sorry for the meandering ruminations, but this is a subject I have felt passionate about for many years/I have had a few cocktails.  If this raises problems for you, please respond, as I would love to have an honest, polite, conversation (made possible by the superficial anonymity of the internet) about this subject.

Recently watched this and it is fantastic, thought-provoking, and educational all rolled into one. I highly recommend anyone interested in sex positivism, sex work activism and/or disability watch for themselves.

THIS IS AMAZING

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Click the photo to purchase t-shirts, magnets, buttons and stickers promoting sex workers’ rights.

Had the most awful conversation with a self identified dude in my desi community today. I quote

” women who become strippers and whores and porn stars don’t deserve any respect. they do bad things and deserve bad things to them. i’m not a sexist but it’s true”

Besides vomiting and consuming the vomit so I could vomit it out again, I came to realise this fella from my close knit desi community could easily spread word to all the aunties and mama’s if I gave him a speech on slut shaming, victim blaming, facts on the sex industry or I could derail it some other way.

So I responded with “why is it such a bad thing to profit from turning people on?”

And he was speechless.

I know there is a lot more depth to this discussion, and politics and what not but seriously- if you can use your body to build something, fix something, cure someone or like produce the most amazing shit to man kind, why is it that people who use their bodies to give other folks amazing orgasms and what not ( all voluntary, all by choice btw) are suddenly thrown this festering heap of hatred?

I don’t get it.

I really don’t.

At the most you should be thanking people for that service.

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Queer Porn Star Accused of Pedophilia for Breastfeeding Baby

By Diane Anderson-Minshall

Weeks after queer porn star Madison Young had her baby, she created an art exhibit titled “Becoming MILF.” The concept, according to Jezebel.com, was to explore how Young now embodies a contradiction, the dichotomy to end all dichotomies — that of the Madonna and the whore. At the show’s opening, she served up self-made breast-milk shakes and displayed a baby quilt made of burp cloths and porn star panties. Turns out not every feminist porn star agrees. According to Salon.com, a series of sex worker Twitter wars ensued, the controversy tapping into “culture-wide mommy issues.”

Porn star Furry Girl (who is known for her, um, stage name–like features) criticized Young for publicly breast-feeding, tweeting that only “creeps and pedophiles” are interested in seeing a porn star breast-feed and insinuated that exposing her child to such an audience was abusive. Girl called Young a “a revolting person” and dubbed her defenders “baby fetishists” and “pedos.”

Of course Young (née Tina Butcher) is already a well-known feminist porn star, director, author, and the founder of Femina Potens, an ever-evolving, queer and trans nonprofit gallery and performance space in California that the San Francisco Chronicle calls “the most happening art space in the city; a revolution in art and sex.” She’s curated the gallery for years, mixing envelope-pushing women’s sexuality exhibitions and spoken word shows from lesbians like Annie Sprinkle with less kinky feminist projects from literati like Michelle Tea. Young’s shown up on such outlets as IFC and the History Channel and in MSNBC’s Brian Alexander’s book America Unzipped, which has a whole chapter on her art and work.

So what was this controversial display of pedophilia that Furry Girl imagines? According to Salon, Young posed for a black-and-white photograph dressed up like Marilyn Monroe while clutching her daughter to her bare breast, nonchalantly breast-fed on a video, and then announced that she would nurse live and in person at an upcoming event meant to promote “health awareness for our queer, kinky, and sex positive communities.”

At the event itself, Young discussed breast health, while other presenters talked about breast cancer, antiretroviral drugs, and safe sex. “It wasn’t a sex party; it was an adult sex-ed class hosted by sex workers,” writes Salon’s Tracy Clark-Florey.

Furry Girl, an actress in vegan porn, tweeted that context is at the root of her argument, though she no longer wants to comment on the debacle. Meanwhile, Young returned to social media in hopes of ending the Twitter mommy sex wars: “The only one sexualizing this image of me breastfeeding is you. Which makes me feel truly disgusted and violated.”

Our society is seriously screwed up in sexualizing a female body’s parts that are being used in a way they’re meant to function, to the point it feels it needs to control and limit their use for that function, based on the last couple generations being indoctrinated to believe that babies should drink formula because it’s healthier, because breasts = sex toys, therefore breastfeeding = dirty.

I have the state laws regarding breastfeeding in public bookmarked on my phone’s browser for when I feed the kid anywhere.  It’s a pretty BF-friendly area, the only people I’ve gotten the side-eye from were some older men when I fed the kid on a bench overlooking the Locks.  What, would you rather he screams?  Here are your options, disgusted onlookers: my child goes hungry and screams because you find breastfeeding off-putting, or I put my boobs to the use I choose to and feed my kid for free in an unobtrusive fashion.  MY BODY MY CHOICE.

The image is absolutely stunning and not remotely sexual.

Women are sexual. Mothers are sexual. Breast-feeding is natural. Get the fuck over it.

the emphasis should be placed on making sure actual pedophiles aren’t harming live victims, not censoring arbitrary things that could possible set them off. because then our society would be left with vary little.