Annie Sprinkle - My Conversation With An Anti Porn Feminist

"We are two women from different worlds with very different experiences. I, Annie, have performed in, directed and produced pornography for twenty five years. Mae Tyme has been anti-pornography for equally as long. We met at a lesbian video night several years ago. You might think that we’d be enemies, because we have such different viewpoints. Could we come together to record a conversation, share our ideas, and show that women of desparate backgrounds and beliefs can communicate and collaborate?" 

"To see a fantastic stripper is an awe inspiring experience. It is to witness the Divine Feminine. It is prayer. And what often surrounds erotic dancers? Drunk, cigarette smoking, disrespectful, bad mannered guys waving measly dollar bills…"

http://anniesprinkle.org/my-conversation-with-an-anti-porn-feminist/

Reading this conversation was pretty interesting as I knew there were opposing views on pornography and sex with men within feminist circles. Personally I come from a sex-positive brand of feminism, and porn really depends on how it's made and who's making it etc etc.

"AS

To me pornography is any photo, film or drawing that shows hard-core explicit sex. How exactly do you view pornography?

MT

As something that is overwhelmingly by, about and for men. It is a world wide industry that generates gazillions of dollars every year from which women do not benefit.

AS

In porn films female performers get paid a whole heck of a lot more than the male performers.

MT

I didn’t know that. I’ve always viewed pornography as an aspect of oppression of women, not of our liberation. And I view the nuclear family pretty much that too. So I’ve tried to develop a sexuality that isn’t about men or what they want, but is entirely about women and how we relate to each other."

There's different views about what porn is and who it's aimed at etc.