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 Hope you listened to some Lupe last night!

This post is made possible by my awesome friends.

First, Brittany Nolan for this super interesting read about the porn industry and how they deal with protection and testing for STIs.

"The gay porn industry has always had HIV-positive performers. A self-regulating policy of condoms and no testing — the inverse of the straight porn world, which prefers testing and no condoms — has allowed it. But that’s changed in some corners, where testing for sexually transmitted diseases is being mandated alongside rubbers. Testing positive means that you’re blocked from performing, even with condoms — and for some in the business, this raises concerns about discrimination and medical privacy." -the intro 

What do you think? Necessity? Or discrimination? READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE!!!!!

“Why has sexual freedom come to look so much like sexual repression? Why has sexual freedom come to look so much like unfreedom?” is a question posed by author Stoltenburg his article “Pornography and Freedom.” I would suggest reading it as ad on to the one I just posted. 

 Also if this is a topic that interests you watch “The Price of Pleasure”  (WOOT WOOT shout out to Jenn Scott and Ross Wantland!)  This movie portrays there is no question that MAINSTREAM pornography promotes sexual injustice between men and women. 

"Pornography and Freedom" argues that as we have moved away from sex with guilt, fear, or shame that came from institutionalized structures such as the church, but there is still something drastically wrong in our interpersonal view of sex and “to take into account in one’s consciousness that this other person is a person.” Stoltenburg gives the examples of a cartoon from the magazine Penthouse where a man says to the woman he is having sex with “I can’t come unless you pretend to be unconscious.”  I mean, EW. 

And just watch The Price of Pleasure.... it might shock you. In my humble opinion . . . what do the kind of images in mainstream porn say about our culture? If these are the images and what is mainstream in every young boys life as part of his sexual socialization, how will we ever break free from the shackles of dominance and subordination (which Stoltenburg states are the very essentials of injustice and unfreedom), the concept that men have a superior status to women and women are inferior and should submit to a man and his desires, even if those desires hurt her and humiliate her. 

Click here to watch clips from The Price of Pleasure

And speaking of HOLY WTF's in the world.....  what the hell is wrong with Chris Brown!?!?!? Word can not even express....... Just because this man is famous is NO EXCUSE. I have felt guilty every time I have sung along to Run It since the Rihanna beating and now I just need to stop. The debate is over whether or not this is a tattoo of Rihanna.... but either way it's incredibly sad to document an assault on ANY woman and W.T.H on your neck?

Moving on to the complete opposite!!! And super positive! I'd like to show off my Sexual Health Peers friend's joint blog The Sex Storm! It's amazing. You should read it. I do. Love you three! Chocolate Thunder, White Lightning, and The Storm are their names and bringing you The Sex and Relationship Blog thats Full of Pleasure is. their. game. My personal favorite part? At the end of each read is a 'Sex Vocab of the Week' - you could learn a lot!

Check out The Sex Storm Here!!!!  Or 'like' their FB page.


Peace Love and Condoms!