Some of the comments on here have been about the rights or wrongs of pornography and how people feel about it. I think there is a natural joy in experiencing something beautiful and sensual and sexual and many images reflect that beauty & create that joy, where the discomfort lies I think at times is when images reflect oppression & a vulgarity that comes from the need to controll. The media feeds us with many conflicting thoughts on these things & this creates a conflict between something we know should probably be fine but is sometimes represented in a way that makes us uncomfortable because of the more negative associations.

I don’t want to get too philosophical here but I think that may be why the whole double oppression thing exists in us women of colour. I’m not sure that as a women of colour I would really think of it that way but there may a subconscious awareness of it.

Apart from that, I just wanted to say mainly that it was a well written and thought out article and that the images and layout captured managed to capture a lot.

I also understand Sequoia’s initial posting & agree.

There are many things I don’t understand, nature is so simple & so pure, women seem quite frequently to be in harmony with this. Men have done so much to damage both the power & nature of women & to oppress one another, most of the things that mentioned in the comments reflect this, I don’t know why women are suffering in this way & why we have to discuss our sexuality in this way when all that is natural and good is evident.

What is this about? Is there a ‘love’ post on this subject that can create the kind of lofty awareness that the above article did?

Also, your comments are BACKLASH.
don’t make this about you.

God damn. This piece makes my heart hurt with the realization of so many things you wrote.

I will speak out about this now.
Sometimes I feel that if our sisters can’t enjoy something that we can, that we shouldn’t engage in it ourselves because it creates the illusion that this “anonymous” woman is all women. Thank you for this piece. great writing.

like my orgasms. a man can just have one so easily, but i must first battle a bloodsucking pantheon of demons produced by a patriarchal culture that has tried to destroy my natural ecstasy.. a girl can’t just fuck and feel good- she has to first be torn from her body by all the images she was assaulted with early on and she wonders, “do i look like them?” “does this make me dirty?”

the need to battle like this before a choice is the absence of privilege. the conversation is not about pro porn or anti porn.

bfp you are brilliant.