Last Friday I found out about the upcoming anti-porn feminist conference being held in Boston next month (June 12-13), and I decided I’d had enough. So did a lot of other women, and men, and people of all genders and orientations who are pro-porn and support a woman’s right to choose, explore and enjoy porn.
We women are tired of people trying to control our sexuality by telling us what we should or shouldn’t like sexually (porn) based on what someone else thinks is best for us. It’s like keeping women in a perpetual state of being children about sex. And women who say they are feminists make it worse by discounting all the women who find porn to be an empowering sex toy. Or if not, to at least give us the benefit of the doubt that we can make that decision for ourselves, thank you very much.
The beginning is this Facebook page, Our Porn, Our Selves (short URL: http://vbly.us/proporn). I’ll be launching the website in the next day (likely by tonight).
What’s most exciting is that tomorrow (June 1) I’ll be announcing a cool and fun pro-porn contest, with fabulous prizes.
How can you help? Glad you asked! You can “like” the Facebook page, as it’s a starting point, and when I launch the contest and site you’ll have a way to add your support with media — this isn’t about money. I also made a fun video I think you’ll like; edits are almost finished. I’ll also have badges for people’s websites and blogs, and the video will be shareable: stay tuned, it’s on the way. Another way you can help is that if you have a service or product you’d like to donate to the ten prizewinners for their sex-positive creativity, please email me (violet @ tinynibbles) as I’ll be partnering with cool businesses and brands for the prizes.
Here’s our pro-porn manifesto:
WE who declare that organizations such as Feminists Against Pornography do not speak for us.
WE who want the world to know that organizations such as Feminists Against Pornography do not represent feminists as a group.
WE who believe that every woman has the right and power to enjoy her sexuality as she decides.
WE who believe that to tell a woman how she may or may not enjoy her sexuality in any way is to deny that woman of her rights over her sexuality.
WE who state that any woman who attempts to control the way another woman enjoys, explores or expresses her sexuality is in fact creating a world that is harmful for all women.
WE who state that we are women, and we like pornography.
WE who state that as women, we are not harmed or threatened by the creation or viewing of pornography, and we wholly support the rights of any gender to view, create and enjoy pornography without judgment.
WE who want a world in which pornography is simply a sex toy enjoyed by all genders and sexual orientations, where women and men view porn within their own self-defined healthy sexuality, without being considered sick, twisted, wrong or mentally ill, and that men who enjoy pornography are no more likely to beat their wives, rape women or become peadophiles than anyone else in society.
WE hereby declare ourselves as adult women capable of making our own choices about our bodies and enjoyment of explicit visual stimulation for our sexual health and well-being.
WE hereby demand that our voices be heard.
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