Tuppy Owens
Occupation: Porn Star
Can you expand on why/how porn can provide positive models for women ?
Porn shows women being enthusiastic about sex, taking the lead, and making the
most of men. It can show women enjoying themselves in all kinds of erotic
situations: in bondage, being sub or dom, having spontaneous sex with
strangers, fantasty enactment, group sex etc. It can show married couples
enjoying themselves together and with others. It can show that it's OK to be
rough with each other, or soft, giggly or lost in passion. It shows that
it's OK to show your pussy and all your body, and shows that exhibitionists
get off on this.
As a failed porn star, I think it's amazing to watch porn stars who are
really good at their jobs - giving a really excellent blow job on camera, or
doing double penetration so that the camera can actually see it all is a major
accomplishment, that other women should applaud, in sisterhood.
Perhaps most important, it shows women breaking out of social pressure to be
demure, breaking out of the normal humdrum of work and family and sleep.
It shows the anti-sex feminists that women can be strong and sexy and enjoy
running their own lives, having fun, and they don't have to me miserable
kill-joys, moaning on about all men being abusive.
Do you think all porn is woman hatred ?
No
Do you think feminists who criticise pornography as objectification of women
have a point ?
No
Should pornography be banned ?
No
Can porn provide positive models for women ?
Yes
Do you think the liberalisation of access to pornography has had a positive
effect for women?
Yes
Do you think there are any acts that it is dangerous for people to look at?
Yes, acts of religious people posing as saviours
Do you think there are some pictures that are dangerous?
Pictures of unsafe sex because they are putting the actors or participants at risk health wise
Have you any other comments about ponography ?
If the moralists stopped
causing a fuss and stigmatising sex, perhaps the people making porn could get on
with producing better stuff. Currently, the trade does not attract the most
creative, interesting and intelligent entrepreneurs and sexual material is
treated as a commodity rather than an art form. I don't like to hear porn
and sex toys referred to as "product" - like a bag of sugar. It
feels like an insult to something I regard as life enhancing and glorious.
Have you got any suggestions for further reading ?
The Sex Book by Suzi
Godson, The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sexual Practices by Brenda Love, Screw the
Roses Send Me The Thorns, Miller and Devon, Annie Sprinkle Post Porn Modernist.
Strictly News does review Porn in a positive and creative way -
http://www.strictlynews.com/
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Shooting the Messenger
The internet is a convenient scapegoat for society's ills.
The UK government is to legislate how best to imprison potentially many people for viewing content on the internet.
How should governments regulate the details of our personal lives and control individual expression ?
Preserve Individual Freedoms
Backlash campaigns to ensure the right remedies are applied to the right problems.
Whilst doing so we preserve hard won individual rights and liberties.
See no evil.
The government doesn't want you to view certain images. And will send you to prison if you possess them. Even in the privacy of your own home.