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There is good news and bad news about pornography this week. The bad news is that women are clamouring for a fair share of the porn industry; the good news is that men are deserting that pigsty.
These are very broad strokes, but the details are equally disturbing and encouraging.
First, the women.
It is difficult, goodness knows, to find a new angle on anniversaries like International Women’s Day, but it was startling to find on The Conversation a plea on behalf of female porn directors for fairer access to the market.
The Conversation is an international forum in which academics can popularise their work and is funded by academic institutions.
Its articles can be reproduced under a Creative Commons license, and MercatorNet has done so quite often with articles living up to one or other of the qualities advertised in its tagline, “Academic rigour, journalistic flair”.
I suppose that Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust, the Australian PhD student (and former parliamentary candidate for the Australian Sex Party) who wrote the piece titled “Women in the porn industry need rights and proper pay, not token gestures”, displayed a certain academic rigour in that her research into the dark corners of female porn seems quite extensive. Being involved in the business herself must help.
As for flair, one would have to credit her with a bit of that, too, for passing it off as a plea for social justice rather than the promotion of a degrading subculture that it is.
Readers are supposed to feel indignant for the women directors who were asked by the captains – or rather, pirates – of the online porn industry to share their work free on IWD in return for “mass exposure”.
Z Z Stardust’s exposure of the monopolistic features of the industry that nurture such effrontery is a marvel of Marxist analysis. If the subject matter were not so putrid, it would be hilarious. Continue reading
Sources
- MercatorNet, an article written by Carolyn Moynihan, a New Zealand journalist with a special interest in family issues.
- Image: Restoring the Soul
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