King Kong Theory

she is first and foremost a social superior who can disregard the moral judgements of the less well-heeled

Wanking is the raison d’être of the porn movie.

I realize that what other women do or don’t do with their clitoris is none of my

Straight porn is also a means for men to imagine what they would do if they were women, how they would go about pleasuring other men, being nasty little sluts, cum-guzzling cocksuckers

The true history of porn, what creates and defines it, is censorship

The answer to bad porn is not no porn, but to make better porn!’

— Annie Sprinkle, Hardcore from the Heart (2001

James. It is no accident that none of their work has been translated into French, or that Pheterson’s The Prostitution Prism

It was a phrase that also expressed just how painful the closed world of male desire is: what I like doing with you necessarily causes harm.

Traditionally, men and women are not supposed to understand each other, relate to each other, or be
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honest with each other. Clearly, the very possibility is terrifying.

The kind of prostitution covered in documentaries and on the radio by French media is invariably focused on the most sordid: the prostitution that exploits undocumented immigrants.

What could be swifter or more predictable than the fall of a woman who was once beautiful? You don’t need much patience to

are happy to believe that what women enjoy is seducing and unsettling them. It’s pure homosexual transference: if they were female, they’d love to be able to make other guys horny. Okay,