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The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession by Kelsy Burke
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stevia333k's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.5
I read this book in order to learn more about sexuality grammars & how pornography developed. It's good at descriptivism, like it seeks to describe the social groups involved.
Personally the bibliography is kind of disappointing. I didn't like the citation style, but it is a style, and it mainly focuses on the mainstream that is kind of treated as the center I guess?
The biggest kicker (i forget if this was in the book, or was in an article that the book's author also wrote) was that people who are anti-porn are organizationally largely christian nationalists while feminists are largely focused on workplace rights. If someone is an antiporn feminist they are either very alone or else speaking a euphemism for (christian) nationalism.
I'm going to spell some stuff out that I think didn't get spelled out in the book, partly because they can be gotten from other sources & she would've been kicked out probably.
I didn't like the ending because it didn't say how free marketism was a euphemism for white separatism went unsaid ("white flight" by kevin m kruse) yet freemarket rhetoric was cited as a coalition/consensus building challenge, and further it kind of conflated horizontal ethics w/ vertical ethics, but the author explained that since affiliation/stance depends on who your social circle is, this is a big mood. That being said, I don't think she would've been able to research if she called out the vertical ethicisticians as fascists (that is disability & environmental justice is literally horizontal ethics), but whatever.
For example, I know from studying people's histories that this "marriage betrayal" is related to the war rape culture against enslaved captives (I'm thinking angela davis's "women race & class", Stephanie E Jones-Rogers's "They were her property", as well as chapter 13 of "global anti-vice activism" edited by pliney) but that the people involved would still be white enslavers. I also know the censorship involved largely has to do with how the gender binary is related to white separatism. Like what I just said are like basic critiques of white feminism & TERFs.
Personally the bibliography is kind of disappointing. I didn't like the citation style, but it is a style, and it mainly focuses on the mainstream that is kind of treated as the center I guess?
The biggest kicker (i forget if this was in the book, or was in an article that the book's author also wrote) was that people who are anti-porn are organizationally largely christian nationalists while feminists are largely focused on workplace rights. If someone is an antiporn feminist they are either very alone or else speaking a euphemism for (christian) nationalism.
I'm going to spell some stuff out that I think didn't get spelled out in the book, partly because they can be gotten from other sources & she would've been kicked out probably.
I didn't like the ending because it didn't say how free marketism was a euphemism for white separatism went unsaid ("white flight" by kevin m kruse) yet freemarket rhetoric was cited as a coalition/consensus building challenge, and further it kind of conflated horizontal ethics w/ vertical ethics, but the author explained that since affiliation/stance depends on who your social circle is, this is a big mood. That being said, I don't think she would've been able to research if she called out the vertical ethicisticians as fascists (that is disability & environmental justice is literally horizontal ethics), but whatever.
For example, I know from studying people's histories that this "marriage betrayal" is related to the war rape culture against enslaved captives (I'm thinking angela davis's "women race & class", Stephanie E Jones-Rogers's "They were her property", as well as chapter 13 of "global anti-vice activism" edited by pliney) but that the people involved would still be white enslavers. I also know the censorship involved largely has to do with how the gender binary is related to white separatism. Like what I just said are like basic critiques of white feminism & TERFs.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Rape, Ableism, Police brutality, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Classism, Domestic abuse, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship
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