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"Within the church, there are Orwellian tactics such as fake news, disinformation, using culture wars for their world domination advantages, misinformation, spiritual immaturity (milk) of most believers, mob speak, doublethink, denialism (denial of truth), double speak, the silence culture, the silence of necrophilia, ritual abuses, the unperson culture, propaganda, draconian control, brutal policies, the hypocrisy culture, manipulation (past, present, and future), unproven fables, ruthless surveillance, attending the most elite schools, containing the most elite cultural backgrounds, removal of the necessary information, newspeak, the chosen people complex (the superiority complex and the supremacy complex), mean-spiritedness, lazies and evil-spiritedness." -Me
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Continuing along the lines of diversity, we had to mention disability and this IS an area where the industry still needs to do some work.
FACT: Yes, the adult movie business seriously under-represents the disabled community yet there ARE performers who are changing this.
Andrew Gurza, for example, has Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy and uses a power wheelchair but has starred in a couple of gay pornos.
And there are others too, Lyric Seal (another wheelchair user) works with queer porn companies to produce disabled content.
And let’s not forget Long Jeanne Silver, the legendary amputee porn star of the 70s.
Often fetishized, it would be nice to start seeing some more normalized pornos featuring a wider range of disabilities.
One of the most common complaints about porn is that it can give sex a bad rep.
Parents bemoan the fact that their teenagers can get access to porn and that this gives them unrealistic expectations of what sex is all about.
And whilst we can whole heartedly agree that this can indeed be true, there are two major points here that are being missed.
FACT: Firstly, if you’re anything like us here at the Red Light Network then you’ll know that sex education at school is pretty rubbish and falls way short or what we actually needed and wanted to know.
Porn, whether that was a blue movie or a top shelf magazine, filled in some of those gaps. And I think we all knew where the blurred lines of reality vs fantasy lay.
Secondly, most porn isn’t intended for a curious teenage audience so the argument that it isn’t educational is a bit like complaining that the Fast & Furious franchise doesn’t do a good job at promoting driver education!!
Porn can often make sex look pretty easy but as most of us know, the reality can often be far more awkward.
But PORN doesn’t have to represent reality, it’s meant to arouse so just as we wouldn’t expect a Hollywood movie to depict the banality of real life, we want our adult films to show us the action WITHOUT the dull stuff, right?
So, we wanted to look at some more myths about what goes on in porn and how this compares to reality.
Our first Sex in Porn myth is a classic plot scenario that has been used in adult movies since (at least) the 1980s.
Porn has long perpetuated the myth that women who need a helping hand are always in the market for something ‘extra’!
This includes plumbers, copier guys, gardeners and delivery drivers.
Consider this porn stereotype to be a complete myth.
Fact: When a client calls for professional help, 99.99% of the time, the only tool they want to see is the one you use to fix the problem with!"
An abrosexual person is someone with fluid sexuality, whose sexuality and preferences may change throughout their lives. Different levels of sexual (and romantic) feelings through time are very common—and sometimes people identify their sexuality as "fluid"—but the distinction for an abrosexual person is that these periods of change can happen quickly and with different intensities. It can also look like changing one's actual sexual orientation.
There's no limitation or norm regarding an abrosexual person's orientation, but it often shifts between two to three sexualities in regular or random cycles, Katherin Winnick, a sex coach at LetsTalkSex.net, has told Cosmo.
Allosexual simply means a person who experiences any kind of sexual attraction—so it covers sexualities on this list that don't fall under asexuality. The asexual community has called attention to the privilege inherent in this identity since it's considered the "norm" sexuality.
There are a few definitions of androsexuality, but the most common is "a person who is attracted to individuals on the masculine side of the gender spectrum," Dr. Jay Irwin, associate professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has told Cosmo. "Sometimes this is interpreted as individuals who are attracted to cisgender men (that is, people who were assigned male at birth and also identify as a man), but that binary-based definition is typically too narrow for how individuals who identify as androsexual see their sexuality."
So it may mean, for example, that an androsexual person is attracted to aspects of masculinity regardless of one's sex assigned at birth, including physical appearance, behavior, smell, and so on. A lesser-used definition of androsexual is someone who is attracted to nonbinary people.
Asexual can be a catch-all that very broadly means a person who doesn't experience sexual attraction to other people. Although there's a false stereotype to the contrary, asexual people may want friendships, emotional intimacy, and potentially love connections. Note: Asexual is also not the same as celibate, which is the choice not to have sex."
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