Why Gail Dines Is About As Leftist As The Tea Party

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16. Extreme porn is illegal in the UK. Dines describes and questions the parameters of legal in the US.

http://calebposner.com/tag/max-hardcore/

Sections 62 through 67 of the 2008 Criminal Justice Act (UK) makes it a punishable offense, for which one may receive three years in prison, to possess pornography that meets the outlined definition of extreme. Legally, pornography is regard as extreme if any action depicted therein “(can) threaten a person’s life, results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to..."

It turns out however that as many as 9.5 million UK residents could be guilty of violating this law, or so claims Backlash (the chief opponent of this law)... But in the age of the internet, there exists an ample online supply of such material courtesy of Brazil, Japan, the United States, and a great multitude of European nations...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gail-dines/adventures-in-pornland_b_636381.html

...Using interviews with hundreds of college-age students, Pornland takes a close look at what it means for young women and men to grow up in such a culture and how it shapes their identities, sexualities, and ideas about intimacy, relationships, and connection.

"One problem I knew I had to deal with as I was writing the book was the inevitable accusation that, because I am anti-porn, I must be an anti-sex prude who is out to police people's sex lives. To criticize porn today is to be seen as criticizing sex, because--thanks to the porn PR machine--porn has now become synonymous with sex.

The way I address this in the book is to ask the reader what would happen if this book were a critique of McDonald's for its exploitive labor practices, its destruction of the environment, and its impact on our diet and health. Would I be accused of being anti-eating or anti-food? I suspect that most readers would understand that the critique was focused on the large-scale impact of the fast-food industry and not the human need, experience, and joy of eating. So I say in the preface that this book should be read as a critique of the industrialization and commodification of sex by corporate predators, and not as an attack on sex itself.

It is this industrial setting that often gets ignored in the heated debates over porn..."

Google: forbes extreme porn revenues
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=forbes+extreme+porn+revenues&oq=forbes+extreme+porn+revenues&gs_l=hp.3...3187.9345.1.9608.14.14.0.0.0.0.661.1901.3-1j2j1.4.0...0.0...1c.GXg61VJqFT4&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=cead04954accb9ad&biw=1725&bih=850

Don't like Dines? Forget Dines then. Read FORBES http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2012/07/30/the-porn-convention/3/ and see derek miller 5 days ago (comments, p3) ignoring the 2nd paragraph for a remarkably Dines-like opinion. Breslin states, "This is very dramatic, but not entirely true." Time will tell.

Or see more of Breslin's own writing where she takes on libertarian defenders like Glenn Greenwald.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2011/07/21/adult-director-max-hardcore-released-from-prison-2/

7/21/2011
Adult director Max Hardcore released from prison
...In response, I wrote a post about the very hardcore realities of a Hardcore movie. (Warning: This post contains graphic language.)

http://susannahbreslin.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-max.html
Friday, July 16, 2010
To the max

Breslin presents objective observations. This corroborates Dines minus any spin.