PORNOGRAPHY

  
Feminist porn is porn that empowers women and men; it gives them information and ideas about sex. It teaches. It inspires fantasy and adventure. It validates viewers when they see themselves or a part of their sexuality represented. It presents sex as joyful, fun, safe, and satisfying. It counteracts the other messages we get from society: Sex is shameful, naughty, dirty, scary, dangerous, or it’s the domain of men, where theirs are the only desires and fantasies that get fulfilled.

-- Tristan Taormino

The Internet is mocked, and not without reason, as one big porn show. But buried underneath the crass commercial excess that makes up so much of that is this wonderful by-product. The Internet is the best possible continuation of Kinsey’s work, which was to show us ourselves and tell us we’re really okay.

-- Heather Nash

I have something to say to men about sex, about feminism, and about queer culture, and I discovered that if you’re naked, people listen more.

-- Nina Hartley