Month: July 2011

Naomi Wolf in Al Jazeera: Blame the Internet!

I had already written off Naomi Wolf’s most recent wave of anti-porn nausea, but every time I turn around, someone new is uncritically reposting it. In light of Erica Jong blaming the internet for motherhood today in the New York Times, I have to say something about Wolf’s transparently pseudoscientific anti-porn, anti-sex-work stance, especially since…

Michele Bachmann is seen as a strong candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. She was the first to sign an ethics pledge for conservative endorsement “The Marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence upon MARRIAGE and FAMILY.” Among the vows includes the pledge to ban porn, to operate on the premise…

Blowjobs, Bollywood, “Delhi Belly” and India’s Post-Sex Nation: Is Dirty Talk the New Wet Sari?

If you’re familiar at all with Bollywood films, you may already know the three most important things about them. First, if someone starts singing, expect them to take an inexplicable dancing tour through world history during the upcoming number, featuring lots of guys with mustaches. Second, while you shouldn’t expect sex, you should expect the…

(This is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time.) No operation that’s producing this much good TV needs to be airing so much female nudity; that’s the specious starting point of LA Times Mary McNamara’s column, the notion that nudity is not one ingredient in an R-rated stew of elements on…