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This post is a response to the increasingly heated thread at Feministe on Female Genital Cutting (FGC). Nearly every mention of FGC in our society elicits condemnation of the practices and the people who practice them as "bestial", "barbarian", "inhuman", "uncivilized", "heinous", etc., which has a tendency to set me off. For a long time I've wondered about the incredible and disproportional response FGC incites in Westerners, feminists and non-feminists alike, responses which generally are very far removed from the reported responses and experiences of women who have undergone some form of FGC.

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Zuzu at Feministe comments on a site advocating "organic sex", which turns out to be an apparent appropriation of the language of the organic food/healthy living movement in the service of religious anti-sex, anti-contraceptive goals. This sort of appropriation is clearly not new (e.g. "greenwashing" in the corporate world) but it is new for the anti-sex crowd, I think. While this sort of thing doesn't post much threat to people with a solid background in sexual health, I agree with the final assessment offered in zuzu's post -- it makes the dissemination of accurate information that much more difficult when misinformation is passed on under seemingly well-intentioned health concerns.

With the issue of what people do with their genitals looming larger with every passing day, I've been thinking about the way people talk about the function of sex. "It's for procreation", they say. Asked why, they may point to Genesis, saying "God said so." Or they may point to Darwin, claiming "natural selection says so." Underlying even sex-postivist, ethical slut, reclaiming cunt attitudes is a sense that reproduction is the primary function of intercourse -- they just believe we're lucky enough to be smart enough to figure out ways to forestall reproduction and still have the sex.

Hypothesis: Nudity, pornography, and open sexuality have absolutely no harmful effects on children (when the child is not the subject of sexual behavior).

Discuss.

Porn Industry Again at the Tech Forefront: LA Times story on the role of the porn industry in driving technological advancement. Nothing new, but nice to see that acknowledged in a major outlet.

Money quote: "Historically, the porn industry has adopted new technologies more nimbly than Hollywood. It embraced home video in the late 1970s, allowing people to bypass seedy theaters and watch the movies in their living rooms. Mainstream studios, by contrast, fought home video all the way to the Supreme Court before making it one of the most profitable pieces of their business."

From USA Today: Christian group backs off case against blog parody

Justinsomnia posted this great parody of "ex-gay" ministry Exodus International's recruiting billboard (original pictured below). Justinsomnia received a cease-and-desist letter from Exodus International. Screw Exodus International, parody is free speech.