I think it is a good article, but I am a little troubled by the comparison with porn. In BDSM terms - this was the complete antithesis of "safe, sane and consensual". I like her refutation of the HORRIBLE Andrea Dworkin, though. And I have never thought women were inherently sweet and nice and incapable of the same violence men are capable of.
I don't think you can deny that many of the photos were pornographic in nature.
I don't think BDSM really figures into it. That's a completely different subject altogether due to (as you said) issues of consent. Torture, as the journalist said, is always without consent. So the two really have nothing to do with each other.
And personally, I don't see BDSM as inherently pornographic.
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Date: 2004-05-08 07:39 am (UTC)I like her refutation of the HORRIBLE Andrea Dworkin, though. And I have never thought women were inherently sweet and nice and incapable of the same violence men are capable of.
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Date: 2004-05-08 10:03 am (UTC)I don't think BDSM really figures into it. That's a completely different subject altogether due to (as you said) issues of consent. Torture, as the journalist said, is always without consent. So the two really have nothing to do with each other.
And personally, I don't see BDSM as inherently pornographic.