F*Bomb doesn’t believe in feminism. Men are obviously power hungry cretins who are running civilization into the ground to prove who has the bigger dick, but that doesn’t mean that matriarchy is the obvious answer to patriarchy. If ladies ruled the Earth, we’d probably have a host of new problems just as bad as the old ones. No, we here at F*Bomb are firm believers in rule by a hermaphroditic hegemony. Since gender is a binary, only beings who embody both genders simultaneously are fit to make decisions. We have a tank of simultaneous hermaphroditic banana slugs in the office and we leave all the important decisions up to those double gendered gastropods. It works pretty well.
But out in the real world, there is a supposed “battle of the sexes” that never seems to end. And since Rand Paul is the only politician willing to back our plan to replace the US government with a tank of banana slugs, we seem to be stuck in this icky, sticky, gender battle for the time being. But even within this battle, you’ll find tiny skirmishes and skuffles occurring between supposedly allied forces.
For the two most recent episodes of F*Bomb in Print, we threw gasoline on one of the longest burning feminist fires: the porn debate. While the revolutionary second wave feministas were appalled by pornography and sought to ban Deep Throat and the patriarchal pig rape culture it represented, modern third wave feminists are taking a different approach, applauding women who watch porn as sexually empowered. At the end of the day, we’re with the banana slugs, who are vehemently pro-porn, but we can’t deny that both sides have their points.
First up is Robert Jensen, journalism professor by day, anti-pornography scholar by night. Robert Jensen spoke with F*Bomb for an astounding 45 minutes about what is wrong with modern mediated sexuality, the traditional feminist critique of porn, and how when it’s this broke, you can’t fix it. You can read the whole transcript by clicking the photo below.
Click your favorite anti-porn sign to read the interview with Jensen.
After that, we switched sides and talked to female smut peddler Courtney Trouble. Trouble runs the gender-shattering porn site NoFauxx.com and is a model/actress/director/photographer/webmaster etc. We talked to Trouble about the alt-porn industry, hardcore sex and politics, and her involvement with the notorious queer porn mafia. Click the pic below to read the interview.
Click wherever you think the patriarchy is being smashed to read the interview with Courtney Trouble.
So there you have it, a male pornography critic and a female pornographer, both laying out their sides of the story. So what is the final verdict? Who wins this battle, if not the war? Fuck. We don’t know. They’re probably both right. Let’s see what the banana slugs think.
