Magical Cow Pr0n!
Point the First: all this talk about pornogroppression! If I could wave my magic feminist wand at the subject and boil away patriarchy, I think we'd be left with a sticky residue described by Brian Ulrich:
I don't believe healthy sexuality can exist without an interest in the whole person, which does not and cannot exist in internet porn pictures or with paid performers in a strip club.
I think that's the nut of it: you believe either that sex can stand on its own, or that it falls down without the appropriate supporting framework of emotional and/or spiritual attachments. Eliminate all the unsavory context you want, porn remains a vision of sex standing (or falling down) on its own.
And that's all the insight I've got. Lynn has been writing a series of meditations on the nature of human sexuality at Noli Irritare Leones; there's too many (and I'm too lazy) to link to them all individually, just go and scroll down if you're into that sort of thing.
Point the Second: Beans, lots of beans, lots of beans lots of beans! Beans, like misery, love company. Thanks, Wolfangel.
I’m fine with either position so long as no one wishes to legislate away my right not to give a rat’s cock what the likes of Brian Ulrich happen to think.
As am I. Amazingly, no one in this particular loosely-spun thread has expressed such a wish. Your rat cocks, while never entirely safe in the Moral Republic of Ashcroft, are under the protection of a squadron of Revolutionary Blogstas - and a fat lot of good it’ll do the poor rats!