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Titillating Television

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I have long lamented the problems with the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act. If this is the first you’ve heard of the CJIA, it’s the badly-worded 2008 law that makes “extreme” BDSM images illegal, even if what is viewed is enacted by consenting adults and the viewer is well aware that the acts are simulated. One such problem is that smut is subjective. Action movies contain realistic violence and death scenes. Whatever the intention of the actors, directors and producers, If one particular scene in that film depicts a fantasy that specifically matches your kink and you only watch (or, in their words “extract”) that part of the film, then technically your resulting wank is illegal.

There’s a brilliant analysis by Freedom in a Puritan Age involving examples from the BBC’s “Ripper Street”, Channel 4’s “Homeland”, and the gloriously exciting, sweaty chap-on-chap BDSM scene in “Casino Royale” (below). Click the link for the article: “WATCH OUR TITILLATING TV SHOW!* *(But try not to enjoy it.)” by Danny Broderick. Very much recommended.

In the meantime, this:

Recent Video Shenanigans

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Hello, internet. As festive tradition dictates, I’ve been struck down by lurgy and terrible asthma for most of winter, so updates have been a bit scarce. Apologies if you’ve sent an email over the past few weeks. I’ll get round to replying when I’m fully recovered. If this isn’t sufficient, then feel free to buy me a holiday somewhere warm where I’ll be better at breathing.

Meanwhile, here‘s a link to lots of videos I’ve uploaded recently. Highlights include mocking a man whose genitals resemble a Clanger, destroying a couple of chaps with the help of Ms Nikki and Kitty Bliss, shoving my bare feet repeatedly into a bound and blindfolded man’s mouth and electrocuting some testicles. Click here to see more.

Strange Fruit

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Here’s a link to a really interesting Strange Fruit radio interview on a “Black, Queer, Feminist View of Porn” at WFPL in Louisville:

“Pornography has long been a divisive topic among feminists. From Second Wavers who ended up in unlikely anti-porn alliances with conservatives in the 1980s to today’s Third Wave feminists who call themselves sex- (and porn-) positive. But no matter whether you feel that porn is de facto exploitation, a liberating sexual tool, or somewhere in between, there’s no denying that lots of porn is misogynistic, racist, classist, able-ist, and just about any other -ist you could name. 

Earlier this month, the New York Times hosted an essay debate called, “Should Porn Come Out of the Closet?” One of the respondents was Dr. Mireille Miller-Young, an associate professor of Women’s Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara who’s been researching the porn industry for a decade. She writes that performing in adult movies can be empowering to the women on screen, and that the typical argument against porn “ignores the diverse ways that women actually interact with it.” We wanted to hear more about her work—and how her identity as an African-American, queer feminist shaped her opinion and research—so we speak with Dr. Miller-Young on this week’s show…”

Listen to the interview here.