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I’ve been looking at a thread on Pharyngula that has me thinking a bit.  It’s about “The Amazing Atheist”, who went on a huge disgusting rant on Reddit, and then posted a follow-up video, with ensuing drama within the online atheist community.

OK, so, very internet.

Two things fascinate me.  First, at the end of his retort to PZ Meyers, The AA pulls out “but I’m a submissive!” like it’s some get-out-of-jail-free card.  Really gross, and to me really disturbing….it makes me wonder how often people try that shit.

And then, during the discussion, one of the commenters goes down the usual road of “well, if he’s a submissive then he maybe he had some traumatic weirdness in his past…” and everbody, I mean everybody, gangs up them to say “fuck off”.  I don’t hang out on Pharyngula, so I don’t know what the local tone is like, but they’re really assholes to this person.  But it isn’t a specifically pro-BDSM crowd.  I wonder if there’s a larger norm being established that that kind of pop-psychology speculation is bullshit?

3 May 2013 • atheism religion sexism other blogs reddit politics

Good News, Everyone!

No, really.  It looks like the DSM-5 is finally going to break out paraphilia disorders (that would be us, folks) by whether or not they are consensual and harmful.  Short of going on live television and admitting that the entire DSM is a joke, that’s about as good an outcome for sexual freedom as could have been expected.

At the same time, there’s a study out that’s finally putting some serious pressure on the absurd logic of our sex offender registries, which treat public urination as equivalent to rape, etc.

I would like to think that both of these things signal trends towards more sexual tolerance, perhaps in the periphery of gay marriage’s recent momentum.

1 May 2013 • politics rape research futurama

OK, so I’m down to only a handful of pan-sub images, because, again, these seem to be very rare.  As happens, most of the ones I have left have some extra baggage.  There were two or three with fairly gross racial undertones, and some with a rape-cuckold theme.  This one captures both of those themes without being too horrific, except for the unavoidable dick-size-contest.  I really like the addition of the black woman, which is unusual for this trope, and I think her presence, body type and facial expression make this a much more complex story than it would be otherwise.

OK, so I’m down to only a handful of pan-sub images, because, again, these seem to be very rare.  As happens, most of the ones I have left have some extra baggage.  There were two or three with fairly gross racial undertones, and some with a rape-cuckold theme.  This one captures both of those themes without being too horrific, except for the unavoidable dick-size-contest.  I really like the addition of the black woman, which is unusual for this trope, and I think her presence, body type and facial expression make this a much more complex story than it would be otherwise.

27 April 2013 • reblog: wontonart • pan sub race cock politics male sub female sub four or more breasts digital image bondage kneeling mf mm fm ff codomination cosubmission cuckold

This is pretty much a straight-up “pan sub” image, which makes it quite rare.  In some bizarre hybrid of sexism and homophobia and turf-claiming, almost all BDSM images (or narratives) insist on rigorously gendered roles: always M/f, or always F/m, or always gay with no sign of other genders in the area. So what we’re exploring is a bit of a taboo. Images like this one are extraordinarily rare…

This is pretty much a straight-up “pan sub” image, which makes it quite rare.  In some bizarre hybrid of sexism and homophobia and turf-claiming, almost all BDSM images (or narratives) insist on rigorously gendered roles: always M/f, or always F/m, or always gay with no sign of other genders in the area.

So what we’re exploring is a bit of a taboo.

Images like this one are extraordinarily rare…

5 April 2013 • reblog: olderoticart • pencil cane pan subs ponytail ribbons ass stockings garters beating anticipation male sub female sub fm ff politics

So here is an example of like a zillion kink tropes I have issues with.  Cuckolding fantasies in general seem to have a whole neurotic thing going on, and it overlaps heavily with a frankly racist attitude towards black men (“bucks”) who are going to provide the requisite anonymous cock for the man’s fantasy.  So, gross. On the other hand, here’s a dude having anal sex with a woman who’s like a third his weight, while a friend is comforting her and helping her cope.  So what’s not to like about that?

So here is an example of like a zillion kink tropes I have issues with.  Cuckolding fantasies in general seem to have a whole neurotic thing going on, and it overlaps heavily with a frankly racist attitude towards black men (“bucks”) who are going to provide the requisite anonymous cock for the man’s fantasy.  So, gross.

On the other hand, here’s a dude having anal sex with a woman who’s like a third his weight, while a friend is comforting her and helping her cope.  So what’s not to like about that?

(Source: pduro, via motiondetect)

31 March 2013 • reblog: pduro • race politics size discrepancy ambiguity cuckolding mf mm male sub female sub anal cosubmission assistance bondage chastity blindfold gag on all fours doggy style ass naked sub

As SW points out, merely reversing the roles doesn’t help: safeword: an image that looks like it’s probably black dom/white sub that doesn’t strike me as tastelessly racist? unheard of!

As SW points out, merely reversing the roles doesn’t help:

safeword:

an image that looks like it’s probably black dom/white sub that doesn’t strike me as tastelessly racist? unheard of!

(Source: latinosandblacks, via fizzogles)

24 July 2012 • reblog: latinosandblacks • politics race mm male sub collar signage piercing earrings photo 2010s

But first, a digression of sorts… When Murre asked me to do a theme on trees, her one cautionary note was about the role of “hanging trees” in the legacy of white supremacy in the US.  (To this day, there’s a thing where many African-Americans view the forest negatively, because it has lingering associations with the KKK and general lack-of-safety.) I am sympathetic to these kind of concerns, but they’re tricky.  A lot of the imagery of BDSM is drawn from extreme power dynamics that include oppression: slavery, police abuse, war crimes, schools, hospitals, rape, the inquisition, domesticated animals, etc. Producers and re-bloggers of pornography tend to either embrace these tropes in a fuck-you-it’s-all-in-kinky-fun way, or else avoid them altogether. More on this in a second….that’s Pokemon Iris, by the way…

But first, a digression of sorts…

When Murre asked me to do a theme on trees, her one cautionary note was about the role of “hanging trees” in the legacy of white supremacy in the US.  (To this day, there’s a thing where many African-Americans view the forest negatively, because it has lingering associations with the KKK and general lack-of-safety.)

I am sympathetic to these kind of concerns, but they’re tricky.  A lot of the imagery of BDSM is drawn from extreme power dynamics that include oppression: slavery, police abuse, war crimes, schools, hospitals, rape, the inquisition, domesticated animals, etc.

Producers and re-bloggers of pornography tend to either embrace these tropes in a fuck-you-it’s-all-in-kinky-fun way, or else avoid them altogether.

More on this in a second….that’s Pokemon Iris, by the way…

23 July 2012 • pokemon race politics manga tree suspension vulva shaved breasts 2010s japan

In the past, on this blog, I’m sure I’ve mentioned that child pornography legislation tends to be over-broad and paranoid, and is a stalking horse for other kinds of censorship.  Until recently, though, I would have said that anti-child-porn crusades have been sincere: I mean, they’ve been motivated by some real desire to protect children and/or public morality. Not no more. The picture above, by Katie Falkenberg, shows the extent of groundwater contamination due to “mountaintop removal” coal mining techniques.  It was going to be used in a presentation by anti-coal-mining activist Marie Gunnoe.  Bad choice….the coal lobby and their friends in congress have dispatched the police to investigate Gunnoe’s connection to child porn. Whatever one’s politics re: coal, I think this is a pretty despicable and cynical reaction, and it is probably not the last time we will see such images politicized in ways that have nothing to do with protecting children. http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/06/coal-activist-kiddie-porn

In the past, on this blog, I’m sure I’ve mentioned that child pornography legislation tends to be over-broad and paranoid, and is a stalking horse for other kinds of censorship.  Until recently, though, I would have said that anti-child-porn crusades have been sincere: I mean, they’ve been motivated by some real desire to protect children and/or public morality.

Not no more.

The picture above, by Katie Falkenberg, shows the extent of groundwater contamination due to “mountaintop removal” coal mining techniques.  It was going to be used in a presentation by anti-coal-mining activist Marie Gunnoe.  Bad choice….the coal lobby and their friends in congress have dispatched the police to investigate Gunnoe’s connection to child porn.

Whatever one’s politics re: coal, I think this is a pretty despicable and cynical reaction, and it is probably not the last time we will see such images politicized in ways that have nothing to do with protecting children.

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/06/coal-activist-kiddie-porn

6 June 2012 • bathroom bathtub nude female younger folks politics censorship photo 2010s

More sad news

A BDSM play party in Massachusetts was just raided by the police, according to Lily’s blog.  It appears that no arrests were made, but the police wanted to ensure that no impact play would occur.  Again, there’s a long history of BDSM practioners getting in trouble with the law for no reason, but we often think of it as history.  Nerve has a good article about”Paddleboro” in 2001, and I’ve written here earlier about the Mark IV raid in 1976, to name two high profile cases.

But this shit is still going on today.

27 February 2012 • politics antikink 2010s