tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post6526537559520033378..comments2023-10-23T09:51:37.441-05:00Comments on Blog of Pro-Porn Activism: The Panic Works: Measure B Passes With 55% Of The Vote. The Requiem, The Legal Challenges, And The FutureRenegade Evolutionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17905949172886730262noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-55347533898615163972012-11-07T14:28:15.899-06:002012-11-07T14:28:15.899-06:00On the subject of Chi Chi LaRue - interesting, if ...On the subject of Chi Chi LaRue - interesting, if one views his m/m oral sex scenes, he doesn't use condoms there, either. Anybody with a Hotmovies or AEBN account could easily peruse this: <a href="http://goo.gl/MkSJj" rel="nofollow">link</a>. No cum shots in these oral sex scenes, but no barriers either. <br /><br />I have no idea whether the AHF crowd would accept that level of compromise concerning barriers in straight porn being used for only high-risk vaginal and anal penetration, or whether they'll stand by Peter Kerndt's over-the-top demands for dental dams, gloves, goggles, and everything short of a haz-mat suit for anything involving "body fluids". (Couple that with Kerndt's claim that this can be easily digitally FXed out in post-processing makes me wonder what ivory tower that guy lives in.)Iamcuriousbluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10617001006322490293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-10496609152236940522012-11-07T14:19:35.390-06:002012-11-07T14:19:35.390-06:00The passage of both Prop 35 and Measure B was a bi...The passage of both Prop 35 and Measure B was a big step toward greater criminalization of the sex industry in California, totally running counter to the image of California as a progressive state. It's the outcome of a long and dirty media campaign against the sex industry that's been running for the last decade, pushed by the antiporn and so-called "abolitionist" movement. While I think we have been starting to turn the corner in the media and intellectual circles (the antis no longer have the privilege of pushing their views completely unchallenged), it really hasn't filtered down into popular discourse, and the sex worker lobby routinely gets crushed whenever the antis put up a serious campaign. So right now, we're stuck with the hypocritical status quo where the majority of the citizens get behind crackdowns on the sex industry, while at the same time a likely majority of the male population and a significant part of the female one view porn. It's like they used to say about Oklahoma, that it would remain a dry state as long as citizens can stagger to the polls and vote to keep it that way.<br /><br /><i>"But to me, speaking as the outsider here, a significant factor in Measure B's passage was what I see as the main opponents' complete misreading of the base electorate of Los Angeles County, and the assumptions that they would automatically be moved by certain arguments based on libertarian conservative beliefs about "less government" intervention."</i><br /><br />That's very true, and considering the level of support for Obamacare in liberal states like California, that translates into some pretty strong sentiments for active government and public health. The No on B campaign completely misread that and did not reach out much beyond libertarians. (The leftist opposition to B mostly focused on sex worker status as a kind of identity politics, something I don't think is a winning strategy either.) That left them open to the kind of dismissal spelled out in this <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/15/pandagon-wah/" rel="nofollow">Amanda Marcotte article</a> in support of mandatory condoms in porn. (I'll just add here that I am not an Amanda Marcotte fan, with her paternalistic views toward sex workers being a major source of my animus.)<br /><br />However, if you look at last night's outright legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado, there's clearly some anti-nanny state sentiment in the blue states. I think a campaign that will have impact will need to distinguish between good public health legislation and government overreach, and how laws like Measure B fall into the latter category.<br /><br />I think that Prop 35 will ultimately end up being hashed out in the courts, but then, much of Prop 35 is likely unconstitutional. Less sure about Measure B, though I'm sure it will be challenged insofar as it's enforced. I have doubts as to what degree it will actually be enforced, as LA County doesn't actually have the budget to go looking for shoots to make sure they're in compliance. I don't know if they have the power to go after condomless videos after the fact, and they might need to prove that the video was actually shot in LA County, which will probably trigger a move toward anonymous-looking location shoots rather than ones that were clearly produced in a San Fernando Valley studio.<br /><br />One other interesting thing about the Measure B campaign - the fact that Shelly Lubben was not front and center on this one. In fact, it seems like AHF wants to put her on the back burner, and have been trying to avoid a more open alliance with the old-school antiporn warriors like Gail Dines and Patrick Truman. If that's the case, and people like Lubben, Dines, and Truman are that much of a political liability, that's a development in the "porn wars" we should be seizing on to our advantage.Iamcuriousbluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10617001006322490293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-68815718409961502432012-11-07T13:48:33.599-06:002012-11-07T13:48:33.599-06:00"Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee o..."Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery." – Frank Chodorov<br /><br />"The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedience." – Edmund BurkeMichael Whiteacrehttp://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelWhiteacrenoreply@blogger.com