Anne Lamott recounts a miracle of love in “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”… It took place at my church, where one of our newer members is dying of AIDS, literally wasting away before our very eyes… This man has a totally lopsided face, deformed, ravaged, emaciated, and when he smiles, he is radiant… He said that […]
Love and Beauty
Julie Marie Wade…What Love Is
Julie Marie Wade won the 2005 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award for “The Lunar Plexus”. It is our pleasure to present these excerpts from her erotic poem: In the context of the body, everything is beautiful. She and I like bread, our bodies like bread, baking, the loaves of the shoulders browned, softened, rising, […]
Richard Wilbur…What Love Is
We note with sadness the passing of Charlotte Wilbur, wife of Cummington poet Richard Wilbur. Today’s Gazette writes, Married for 64 years, Charlotte and her husband shared an enduring love. Richard Wilbur, 86, who called his wife “my best reader,” said he viewed her life as poetry in motion and that she was often his […]
Dorothea Dix: Giving Voice to Suffering, Getting Results
Many comments from our opponents have a despair- or paralysis-inducing cast to them. We have been derided for not making a big dent in a $56 billion industry within a few months, told that sexual abuse has been pervasive in society long before the advent of today’s porn, told that to improve the lot of […]
Mocha Club: Helping Former Sex Slaves Transition into Normal Life
This post does not have to do with porn per se, but the Mocha Club‘s Village of Hope is such a great example of love in action we wanted to call attention to it. The village is a safe community of huts, a workshop, a medical clinic, a community center and a school that [club […]
A New Category Debuts: Love and Beauty
There is so much that’s wrong with today’s porn that it’s easy for anti-porn activists to be in a bad mood most of the time. As Andrea Dworkin freely admitted, “I represent the morbid side of the women’s movement.” The public sees the anger and frustration, and many turn instead to the porn industry, which […]