The "nudge", I get. But unless homeboy is straight up forcing it in, it's not going to just slip in by accident.

Yeah that sounds SO SUPER FEMINIST. It's not like young women are being coerced into anal sex all the time. I'm sure the butt is just "having a moment," and this moment doesn't translate to pressure at all for women to claim enjoyment of a sex act men specifically do in order to degrade them.

I really don't get it. he did it multiple times, but when I said "how about I buy a dildo and shove it up YOUR butt without lube or any warning whatsoever and see if you like it?" he said "but that would hurt.."

These are great tips for having sex on or at a woman.

I have now seen this question posed in several comments and not a single response to it. I am wondering the same. I don't think Belle Knox is a bad person, nor do I think she is a whore, but I don't like that this is who we are lauding as the new feminist voice of a generation. It seems like a bunch of crap.

Everything you have mentioned is what I have been struggling with. Having pondered this overnight, I think the answer to my question is no, it's not possible to be a feminist living by feminist principles and be a stripper. The fact that it can be a really fun and profitable job is kind of irrelevant, akin to having a…

Catherine MacKinnon.

Laying the blame on the patriarchy, to what end? I am more interested in accountability.

None of these "all sex is rape" dildo repeaters have ever even read original text Andrea Dworkin. She was an incredibly educated philosopher, a polemicist, not a CAPS LOCK SHOUTY Internet-era idiot like Caitlin Moran (and for all Dworkin's difficulty she'd never grossly and arrogantly name a book How to Be a Woman).…

Porn has been around since human beings figured out how to etch pictures on cave walls. Pornography has been filmed since the invention of the camera. Internet porn is just the modern incarnation of a system of entitlement and rape culture that has existed for ages. I'm really not sure why you have this mental…

If you don't see it as a problem, you aren't paying close enough attention, or just aren't willing to be critical of things you enjoy. Are you seriously unable to see how a multimillion dollar industry devoted to making women's bodies available, on demand, to men might contribute to our sexist society? I don't know…

I'm aware of what slut-shaming is. Slut-shaming is not the issue that makes stripping problematic from a feminist standpoint. Of course strippers are people. But an industry being comprised of actual human employees does not mean that the industry is beyond reproach and might be detrimental to a particular demographic…

This film is profoundly depressing. I don't see how anyone could read Belle/Miriam as genuinely empowered by her new career, regardless of what she explicitly articulates. Everyone thinks they have everything figured out at 18. Her porn-positive comments are semi-delusional self-reassurance. For the bulk of the film,…

So, when it comes to Bell Knox, part of the problem is that Jezebel and other outlets that take a distinctly pro-porn stance give white, privileged sex workers who have the luxury of choice the spotlight while insisting that the countless nameless, faceless sex workers who are working under violent pimps, trafficked…

Women don't exist in a vacuum. Women surely enjoy porn that abuses and objectifies women; women also exist in a culture that loves to abuse and objectify them; many women's sexual experiences in this culture are inexorably tangled up with the experience of being abused and objectified. This is Women's Studies 101…

Well thank you for the question. Not to split hairs beyond what you've asked, but first there is a distinction for me between disapproving and condescending... as you might deduce I am very invested in animal issues, and bitterly opposed to hunting. So I disapprove – quite extremely – of hunting, but I don't feel…

I don't think sexism is inherent in men, I think it's inherent in our patriarchal society that was set up centuries before strip clubs were ever a thing.

That's good to know. Florida is a much more nuanced and complicated place than Gawker media would have one believe. I live in a small beach town and I suspect the denizens of NYC or LA have no idea places like my hometown exist.

But to continue my congratulations you really did make your point powerfully and…

She does not represent me...

Please re-read, or, I guess, read, what I said before introducing what is essentially a non-sequitur and an ad hominem attack. There is no condescension directed toward women in pornography or sex workers in general. You are projecting that.