Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Porn
May 08, 2012 | Tuesday | 21 Comments
Be Ye Warned, HarperCollins has put an epic ton of books on sale today, including a pile of Barbara Delinsky's backlist, and some lovely books by Brenda Joyce. I'm sorry in advance. But first, links! I don't know how I ended up reading about women in the pornography industry, but this link came from Darien the day after I'd read for hours online about how women work in the porn industry - and not in front of the camera. First, I read this article about women who work behind the scenes (no pun intended) including one woman who is the…
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March 15, 2012 | Thursday | 145 Comments
The media courage of 50 Shades continues, long and frequently enough that there are some themes emerging. One fantastic example: mommy porn. In two words, there are a lot of things wrong with Mommy Porn. Add to that "Mommy's naughty reader" and the rhetoric that women are ashamed of their erotic reading material and thus buy and read it digitally, as the Wall Street Journal suggested yesterday, means that the shame-wagging-finger gets bigger. I have a different finger to use in reply. It's the middle one. Romance has struggled with the pornography label for a long time. And I give…
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October 07, 2010 | Thursday | 142 Comments
I recently discovered three advice email messages in the spam folder - which I feel really shitty about and I apologize. This letter came in mid-August, and while it’s been almost 2 months since it was sent, I wanted to answer it and discuss here because the romance/porn accusation is unfortunately perennial. That said, I don’t know if this person is still in this relationship and I don’t have an update. Dear Smart Bitch Sarah: I have a general question for anyone who also loves romance that may be willing to help me untangle a sticky situation in my current…
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