After Pornified: How Women Are Transforming Pornography & Why It Really Matters
Anne G. Sabo
Language: English
Pages: 245
ISBN: 178099480X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Tracing the movement from its inception, After Pornfied visualizes this transformed porn to the reader in a way that no other book on porn has done, so that she too can see the power and potential of this new porn by women to free our minds and bodies from the demeaning imageries of our sex in all other porn and pornified media. Porn affects us. Today, women are leading the way to make those effects empowering.
Porn brings up a lot of negative images in our sexualized, pornified culture. But today a growing number of women are radically changing porn to respectfully capture the authentic sexual lives of women and men, empowering and inspiring the viewer to claim her sexuality against a sexualized culture, and creating a real counterweight to pornified media and porn as it’s been known. In these women’s hands porn has become a vehicle for women to explore and define sexuality on their terms, shining the light on how we can all break free from traditional gender roles and shatter erotic conventions.
around one another, the two hold each other with their bodies and eyes. A non-objectifying gaze Except when eyes are closed and the sensation turns inwards, the two characters in “TV Idol” hold each other continuously with their eyes. What I find striking about the way the two look at each other, is the exchange of a desiring gaze while the camera for its part refuses to objectify either one. Instead “objectification” here becomes an affirming, adoring act. The two characters’ mutual
her as a massage therapist who works with clients’ pent-up tensions. Through a constant use of dissolving images where one picture fades out as another fades in, dream shots are used in this sequence to emphasize the erotic, and to highlight the woman as the active subject advancing towards the man, over tracks and up to the stage where he has set up a massage table draped with burgundy red blankets. Here she lets desire and pleasure burst through, over and over again, through the spiderweb suit,
imagine we’d have a lot fewer movies and a lot less schlock on the video shelves if everyone adhered to that message,” concludes Candida.24 Since many of Candida’s films focus on helping people overcome issues that affect their sexual lives and relationships, sexologists and therapists have often used them in their practice. Her films have also been shown in conjunction with the conferences of, among others, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the American Association of Sex
check into a hotel charged with erotic atmosphere, which is tantalizingly captured in quick spinning flashbacks to their previous erotic stays at the same hotel. The film received an Honorable Best Mention at CineKink NYC (2011). Both “Handcuffs” and “Room 33” are included on Erika’s latest film, Cabaret Desire. More mature and unhurried in its feel, Erika here adds a new touch to her modern and urban Sex and the City styled porn. Inspired by an actual New York Poetry Brothel and its Barcelona
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