Amanda follows up on the Naomi Wolf controversy with a comprehensive, convincing dismantlement of Porn As We Know It. Among other things she points out the fact that insofar as the clitoris isn’t so much as a blip on the porn-flick radar screen, it isn’t doing anyone any favors–if you’re using porn as your normative standard for how sexual pleasure is given and received, women get gypped, and men aren’t even aware they’re gypping the women. (You’ve also got your basic inadequate sex-ed curriculum to thank for this. Remember the lesson on clitoral stimulation? Yeah, me neither. So teenage girls nationwide go through their teenage years getting jabbed at by their special fellas, wondering what all the fuss is about.)
Amy’s post is basically a close reading of porn, and it ain’t pretty. However, she also disagrees with Wolf’s apparent embrace of religious orthodoxy as something “hot.” Essentially we’re all looking for maximum sexual choice and fulfillment, and neither fundamentalism nor mandated money shots are going to get us there.