Sexual Issues
SEX, PORN & THE AMERICAN WAY
XP1 Complete 6 cassette set [Includes XP2, XP3, XP4] $33.00
For thoughtful and critical thinkers, many questions can be raised about pornography. Just what is pornography? Is it merely a matter of personal taste? Is one person's porn another person's erotica? Are there positive, nonharmful uses for pornography? Is porn degrading and harmful to women? Is censorship appropriate? Are there other alternatives for dealing with offensive material? Are anti-porn activists determinedly seeking censorship by the back door? Are pro-porn activists blithely overlooking the seamy and sick side of pornography? Can you be a feminist and pro-porn too? There are many strong opinions but no easy answers.
In this series, a number of very different approaches to publishing, pornography and censorship will be presented., Regardless of your own position, we urge you to listen thoughtfully to all of these speakers, in the spirit of open-minded and critical thinking, then decide for yourself.
Adventures and Misadventures of an Adult Magazine Publisher
by Kat Sunlove
XP2 120 min/ 2 cassettes $12.00
Kat Sunlove speaks from direct experience about the issue of censorship. Her
publication, Spectator, just lost a legal battle with advocates of
AB17 when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a law
requiring guards at street vending machines that sell adult magazines
(to prevent minors from buying "harmful material"). "This is a sad day for
First Amendment law," she said in the Oakland Tribune. She
discusses the history of Spectator, with its links to the days of the
Berkeley Barb, its legal hassles, her free speech activities in
Sacramento, and answer questions about her sex-positive attitude toward
the sex industry, erotica, pornography, and S/M.
Porn, Pimps, and Profits: Who Pays?
by Ann Simonton
XP3 120 min./ 2 cassettes $12.00
Most debates on this topic, says Simonton, are orchestrated by media that profits from the pornographic industry, and who imply that anyone who doesn't celebrate pornography is puritanical and anti-sex. Simonton comments on magazines as diverse as Vogue and Hustler, finding disturbing and violent images of women in women's publications as well as "porn" magazines(described in conjunction with a slide show). Her group, Media Watch, suggests boycotts, letter campaigns, and other educational efforts to combat such images.
Censorship: Myths and Realities Behind the Cliche's
Norman Solomon
XP4 120 min./ 2 cassettes $12.00
Wary of pornography but committed to a free speech, anti-censorship position, independent journalist Norman Solomon turns his lens on the difficult reconciliation of these points of view. With a thoughtful and balanced perspective, he explores dilemmas and possibilities for sorting out various concerns about the role of pornography in society, while challenging some dearly held myths in the process.
Sex, Shame and Society
by Dixon Wragg
DW1 120 min./2 cassettes $12.00
We are all embedded throughout our lives in some social context, with values, assumptions, and attitudes that are rarely scrutinized critically. Such unscrutinized attitudes can often result in discrimination, persecution, needless restriction of freedom, and other evils. Wragg draws out some of these unconscious prevailing attitudes about sex and examines them critically, looking at such topics as sex and violence, profanity, pornography, monogamy, homosexuality and other alternative lifestyles, sexual harassment, feminism, and morality.
What You Can Do About Sexual Harassment In The Workplace When You Don't Want To Call The Cops
by Joan Kennedy Taylor
JKT1 90 min./ 1 cassette $10.00
Based on interviews with managers, union officials, and workers in construction, engineering, and Wall Street, Taylor discusses ideas on how to behave so that you won't be harassed, some important facts of male group culture, steps to forestall harassment before it occurs, the pluses and minuses of confrontation, how to get a network of support when you are treated unfairly, what objectionable behaviors should not be called sexual harassment, and why you should never ask to be treated like a "lady."
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