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Emily Witt's recent essay, in which she describes traveling to San Fransisco, where she watches a BDSM porn shoot for a Kink.com series called Public Disgrace,  which depicts "women bound, stripped, and punished in public," inspired a number of responses.

"If there's something you don't like about your body, put it into a search engine, put '+ porn,' and you'll find a whole host of sites that find that's the most attractive thing about you," porn producer, Anna Arrowsmith said in an interview with BBC, with reference to a debate she would be participating in, hosted by Intelligence Squared in London.

The debate was centered around the motion: "Pornography is good for us" -- indeed, a stupidly simplistic and unanswerable question in and of itself; the debate shone a light on the intellectually void and anti-feminist nature of the delusion that is "feminist" or "queer" pornography.

This article was originally published on Karen Ingala Smith’s blog and is cross-posted with permission from the author.

Someone messaged me yesterday asking my perspective on Game of Thrones; wondering if I had any feministy links or insights to share with him.

The latest from A Voice For Men’s “activism” files is a smear campaign against a protester they are calling “Big Red.” “Big Red” (nothing sexist about that name) is a woman who dared to speak out (USING SWEAR WORDS, OH NO) against Men’s Rights Activists’ anti-feminist agenda.

For those who are unfamiliar with this situation, earlier in April a Men’s Rights Activist (MRA) group called the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE) sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto where there were talks by Janice Fiamengo about how feminism is mean. Specifically, a “mean-spirited bias against men in the humanities.”

A piece published in the Toronto Star over the weekend may have led you to believe it would, as the headline: “Feminists take opposite stands on prostitution” alludes, explore different feminist positions on prostitution and prostitution law.

Tom Matlack, who I’d pretty much forgotten about because, well, because he’s irrelevant, is at it again. And by “at it” I mean, of course, whining about the mean, mean feminists. It’s his thing.

It's time for me to come out of the metaphorical closet, friends. I'm afraid this secret has been weighing on me far too heavily, for far too long.

The truth is, I've been in bed with Harper for the past year. Literally and figuratively. It all started with this (I'm the one on the far right. And yes, I'll be using that pun as a jumping off point):       

Cool.

Earlier his week, The Gloss featured old photos of prostituted women in order to highlight the fact that being poor and having to service nasty-ass dudes in the early 1900s also involved wearing cool tights. A comment left on the post reads: “Well, I’m obviously going to be an old school sex worker for Halloween this year.” I can’t tell if that’s sarcastic or not, but I think it shows that The Gloss really made their point.