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Give Me Smut! (And Nothing But)

By Chris Hall
March 11, 2007
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“I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I’m for it.” –Tom Lehrer

When I first became politically aware, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, AIDS was making lunch meat out of every gay boy and leatherman within reach, and the term “feminist pornography” was an oxymoron to all but a very, very few people. What has come to be called the “feminist sex wars” was going at full bloody force back then.

Things have changed a lot since then, but not as much as I allow myself to think. Yes, Reagan has been put into his grave, but his legacy remains in the body politic like a festering tumor. Yes, gay men no longer have to bury their friends and lovers 25, 50, 75 times a year, nor are HIV-positive people classed as “innocent” or “guilty” and fed poisons disguised as medications. And yes, you can now declare yourself pro-feminist and pro-pornography without your fellow progressives staring at you like you’d just admitted that you moonlight as a contract killer.

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Filed Under: Politics, Sex and Gender Tagged With: Alternet, Audacia-Ray, censorship, Lux-Nightmare, pornography, Robert-Jensen, Sex Work

The Lost Girls

By Chris Hall
July 28, 2006
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Swamp ThingLike a lot of comics fans my age, I had my view of what comic books could and should be completely changed when AlanWatchmen: the opening page of issue 1, as we watch Rorschach walk through the blood of the Comedian. Moore took over Saga of the Swamp Thing in 1984.  Moore took a character that was at that time a bad joke, in a book that was slated for cancellation, and recreated it from the ground up, resulting in one of the most critically-acclaimed titles of the time.  Moore’s Swamp Thing stories are still damn good, but they’re dwarfed by the body of work he’s done since, such as Watchmen, From Hell, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, not to mention V For Vendetta, which had been published in incomplete form in England before DC hired Moore for Swamp Thing, and should be considered one of the classics of modern anti-authoritarian literature.

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Filed Under: Comics (and Comix), Smut Tagged With: alan-moore, comics, lost-girls, pornography

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