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From: wendyt@unisoft.UUCP (Wendy Thrash)
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Subject: Re: Feminist Erotica (Re: Erotic Publications
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 17:35:42 EDT
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In article <440@cci632.UUCP> rb@ccird2.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>[T]here are several female publishers of feminist
>erotica.  Mostly themes of female dominance.
>
>Holly Publications, Centurians, Evelyn Rainbird, and Eros publications are
>a few of the more moderate.  Reflections is more hard core.
>
>Most feature the "latest fashions", male "slave" models, couples layouts,
>and articles written by women.
>
>Before anyone flames that this is sexist too.  I bring these up as alternatives
>for people who are offended my male dominance, all female models, and
>male geared articles.

Rex, Rex, Rex!  Who's kidding whom?  Folks, let me draw for a minute on my
(ahem) eclectic tastes to clue you in on something:  Do the words "SM"
(or "S/M" or "S&M" or what have you), "B&D," "dominance and submission,"
"whips and chains and leather and steel" mean anything to you?  Well if so
friends, I say we've got Trouble....  Oops, wrong article.  Seriously, though,
to pretend the Centurians, Evelyn Rainbird, etc. are feminist publications
is a bit like pretending that hamburgers are made for the sake of cattle.
The magazines described are primarily fetish rags, with a few "articles"
thrown in, perhaps because they're cheaper to print than pictures.

The notion of the dominant female, in the sense addressed by these
publications, remains primarily a male fantasy.  Trading one male fantasy
for another is not the path to feminism.

Mind you, I have nothing in particular against the publications in question;
several of my friends have appeared as models in one or another of them.
Nevertheless, "Yellow Silk" is feminist erotica; Centurians et. al. are
porn, porn, porn.

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