Comments on: Anti-Sex Worker Activists Are Behind #50DollarsNot50Shades

By: Caty Simon

Caty Simon — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:44:36 +0000

In reply to missfreudianslit. The article linked itself was good, and Melissa Febos is no reflection on your piece. Just funny that people are quoting her as a pro domme authority.

By: missfreudianslit

missfreudianslit — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:15:00 +0000

In reply to Mistress Matisse. Interesting. I wrote this article, but the editor added that piece in to flush it out so I'm not personally aware of Febos. I must do more research. Thanks for the info.

By: When Has Hollywood Sex Ever Looked Good or Healthy? | Misanthropology 101

When Has Hollywood Sex Ever Looked Good or Healthy? | Misanthropology 101 — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:51:21 +0000

[…] to skip on a non-principled, literary-quality stance. (And in particular stay away from the “$50 Not 50 Shades” campaign, which is run by anti-porn, anti-sex worker activists — no friends to kink or healthy sexuality […]

By: Caty Simon

Caty Simon — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:49:10 +0000

In reply to Mistress Matisse. Ughh, and basically her entire memoir is about how BDSM and sex work is pathology? It's the most self-centered Freudian piece of drivel by a therapist's child I've ever read.

By: Mistress Matisse

Mistress Matisse — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:55:16 +0000

Good lord, where did Melissa Febos pop up from? I haven’t seen anything from her in years. I think it’s rather questionable that she’s promoting herself as a responsible advocate for BDSM, given that in her memoir she talks about doing very dangerous scenes while high, and makes no apology or awareness that it’s not okay to do that. (And yes, I asked her.) Not someone I want representing the BDSM community.

By: SunnyDee

SunnyDee — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:43:44 +0000

My big objection to the movie is releasing at Valentines Day and pretending it is ‘romantic’. romantic comedy maybe.

Yes, women fantasize about being forced to enjoy themselves. That is why the UK’s Mills&Boon, and North America’s Harlequins are still so very popular. They have alpha males insisting that the spunky females embrace their sexuality. submitting to the powerful forces means not denying the real feelings of sexual arousal, because she isn’t permitted to allow society’s morals etc to deny them.

but they are just books. Even the authors in the height of the 60s and 70s would say that this is a ‘hero’ who they as women would be happy to bash over the head with a brick. They are fully aware the readers aren’t looking for that same guy in real life or for themselves. They aren’t stupid.

anti porn and anti SW orgs all think all women (except them) are stupid, that is what is so annoying about these kinds of propaganda efforts.

By: Gaye Dalton

Gaye Dalton — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:55:54 +0000

To say I am appalled by 50 shades is putting it mildly – not because it has sexual content, but because it opens in Dublin while the trial of a man who groomed his sub to accept anything and may have killed her is ongoing. I can’t even imagine how both families feel looking at the publicity.

Boycott the movie, but give that $50 to your kids (or someone else’s) because 50 Shades is the point at which we *SHOULD* be learning the difference between porn and abuse…

By: Jenni

Jenni — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:55:33 +0000

Argh, this really gets my goat! I got into an argument not long ago with a woman who said I couldn’t call myself a feminist because I had worked as a stripper. Being a feminist means I can call myself whatever I damn well please! Yes, some women are exploited in porn, and that’s sad. But there are also many women who see porn as fun, healthy, and a good way to make some money…and there is NOTHING wrong with that!
How can we, as women, stand together if we are being nitpick about stupid shit? No one bastardizes Gloria Steinem for working as a Playboy Bunny in the 70’s, because she did it for an expose, to find out what it was like. That’s why I stripped, that’s why people fucking bungee jump! Sorry, if I’m not being very articulate, but it’s hard to think when steam is coming out of my ears.

By: Anthony Kennerson

Anthony Kennerson — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:47:02 +0000

Or, better yet, contribute to a far more realistic and accurate movie/book on BDSM from a real, live, sex worker couple….namely, Ernest Greene and Nina Hartley. You know…”The Master Of O”?

At least they don’t donate their earnings to sexual fascists like Gail Dines or Dawn Hopkins.