Kink.com: Bondage Porn Gone Chillingly, Cheerfully Corporate (explicit language)

Kink.com has been delivering “Genuine, Raw Fetish Since 1997!” CEO of the Kink Crew is Peter Acworth, a bondage enthusiast who started kink.com in 1997 out of his student bedroom while he was a PhD student in New York City. His first models were students at Columbia University, who he paid to be tied up […]

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Schwyzer on Porn: “The pursuit of everlasting novelty is the enemy of actual relationship”

Gender studies professor Hugo Schwyzer digs deep to reveal the subtle and lasting harm of porn to the viewer. Here he responds to Ethan of Crucial Minutiae. Ethan argues that porn is a harmless outlet for men who, craving variety, would otherwise “bug their girlfriends/wives for more sex” or “seek it elsewhere from strangers, prostitutes, […]

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Schwyzer: Why Exchanging Sex for Money is Wrong

Hugo Schwyzer is a gender studies professor at Pasadena City College. His blog often explores the issues surrounding commercial sex. Yesterday he discussed the harm of prostitution, and the benefits of ‘naming and shaming’ (emphasis in original): I want the names to come out because I am convinced that prostitution is never, ever, a victimless […]

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