Unbelievable synchronicity -- On Sex Positiveness [View All]

[Morgana LaFey]

Within the last 1/2 hour I was pulling up a link to Stan Goff to post on another thread, who had a link to Feminista on his blog, which had this fascinating and spot on article:

On Sex Positiveness
http://www.feminista.com/issues/article.php?type=essay&number=6&v=6&n=1

So naturally I came here to share it, since it's so dynamite, only to find out that there was already a thread on this subject started -- is he trying to recruit or something???? -- but lo and behold, *I* cannot post this to that thread. How funny. (I don't have anyone on MY block list. Do you?? Doesn't that seem a little, uh, CLOSE MINDED -- which is exactly what WE get accused of being all the damn time??)

On to this terrific commentary. IMO, her initial response (3rd par. below) is about the best response I've yet seen to the whole dreadful and manipulative notion of "sex positive feminism" (but the whole thing is a must read):

I decided to hang ten on my keyboard and surf the net to see if I could find any clue as to what was considered the meaning of these words. In doing so, I stumbled upon this interesting one:

"What exactly is this thing called sex positivity? It's a public denial that sex is an ugly thing and should be hidden. It's a movement based on pleasure-as-revolution and radical self-expression. It's also a theory of social justice: the idea is that the experiences of sexual and social freedom will teach us to seek more fundamental kinds of freedom, such as economic equality."

So let me get this straight, women are just going to copulate their way into equality and liberation?! And copulating will promote social and economic freedom? Hmmmm, I wonder why no one has ever thought of this before?!

But that's not what happened. What it did was allow men free and easy access to sex without that real drag of protocol, courtship and responsibility. The same old thing still occurred for women though. Women got pregnant. Women had babies. Women were still expected to take care of the children, do the household chores and wash men's streaked underwear. Women were still expected to take a back seat to men, and were denied leadership and any kind of important roles. Well then, just who exactly did this liberate and free? Well it sure wasn't women!

It didn't take women too long to figure out that they had been conned.

But time and time again, women's history and their lessons learned are erased and forgotten. As a result, each new generation of women is conned into thinking that they are discovering sex as something new. All each generation winds up doing is re-inventing the wheel once again and discovering the same old hard lessons that countless generations of women before them have found out. The benefits of these Sexual Revolutions and Sex Positive movements were never meant to benefit women or to free or liberate them. They were designed to allow men free access to women's bodies while still retaining their male privilege and benefits and positions of power and dominance granted to them under the patriarchy.

Read the whole thing, you'll not be sorry.
http://www.feminista.com/issues/article.php?type=essay&number=6&v=6&n=1

And now (sigh) I guess I have to go counterblock the poor devil mongo (and I guess I should also counterblock my other terribly juvenile anti-admirer in that other thread who I noticed had also blocked me) so I don't have the situation of him polluting this thread and me not being able to respond to HIM.

And so it goes.


Done. And oh, how FUNNY. I'd forgotten that I can't "undo" the option for 1 week. Like who'd WANT to? :rofl: