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I’ve been pleasantly surprised this year to read a couple of blog posts written by men just slamming the ever-living shit out of the popular holiday commercial message. “All women are whores just set the price.” Otherwise known as ads pushing luxury goods like diamonds and cars with a fairly unmistakeable message. These ads go far beyond just saying. “Hey it’s fun to spoil someone you love on occasion,” and straight into making rather fucked up insinuations about how marriage and heterosexual relationships are transactional—her love and sex for your baubles. That women give love because they love and have sex because they desire doesn’t enter the equation. There was one ad awhile back that was pretty close to explicit on this—a guy runs through the streets declaring he loves a woman. She’s angry with him for his romantic and inexpensive gesture. He presents a diamond. Now she likes him again. Women’s affections are a commodity says the ad not a normal human expression. So yes there's the whole idea that whether it's cash check or joint check account male/female relationships always boil down to one thing. Hump! And actually some of the ads are even more regressive. It seems to me that a hidden reinforcer here is that *if* one is able to surprise one's spouse with a huge-ticket item like a gift-wrapped Mercedes then it's because you give her a "household allowance" but otherwise don't let her look at the books at all. Either that or as PZ Night and a number of Marcotte's commenters point out you've unilaterally thrown your household budget into some degree of hock to pull it off. Charming. And *even if* the intention isn't directly to regard such gifts as pro-quid-quo trinket-for-sex deals there's still the issue of extravagant gifts as an expression of his (unnecessary in a two-income family) insecurities about being a "good provider" and therefore *worthy* of sex. Because you know even if she isn't a dirty whore who puts out for trinkets then she's a saint who lowers herself to slake his animal lust if and only if he's worthy enough. Which really are the only possibilities inside the virgin/whore mindset. There are other possibilities for relationships.. but they're not so good for sales. Which is a bit of a shame. There's nothing wrong at all at all with exchanging gifts. But trying to "impress" each other? Not so hot. But seriously how much do men really still think that their women must be bought and paid for? I know guys a generation older than me did. I once sat through a truly mortifying writing class at the community college where one of the men (20 years my senior) read aloud a poem he'd written about a date he'd gone on with a female classmate. He'd paid; she hadn't put out. It was mean and nasty and ultimately only really embarrassing to this dude not that he was sensitive enough to be much bothered. (It was also really lousy poetry.) But I know very few men my age (40s and 50s) who think that way. Maybe the men I know are not a representative sample. I'm wondering if this sort of pay-to-play thinking is actually undergoing a renaissance or if advertisers are just trying to push it (as other commenters mentioned a post or two back). Your precious illustration makes me wonder too if there are deeper insecurities at work. Y'know the sort that turn up in my spam folder like these gems from the last few days: - Vixens confess that thin and not so long male sticks in no way are able to please them!- Your girl does not admire to do it with you for reason of your machine size.- Instead of trying to make her cum do it with penis pills. (Huh?)- Girls like monster cocks but they don't like yours. Time to change? (Gotta admire the ambiguity on that one. Change what pray tell? Your cock? Your girl?) So I'm wondering if for guys who worry about having a "thin male stick," a big hard diamond might look like a reasonable substitute or supplement? Or is this just totally farfetched? I do think Amanda's right: the old idea that you can buy a woman's loyalty fidelity housewifery and affection is still alive. But might it be also colliding and/or merging with the much newer idea that a man needs to be a satisfying lover if he wants to keep her loyalty? Buying a diamond or sportscar is obviously more easily attainable than achieving a monster dick - but success and a big dick also serve as metaphors for each other. So maybe they're interchangeable to some degree; maybe not. I'd love to hear some male perspectives on this. And yeah. I know that any guy who's reading here is not going to be overinvested in the idea that "machine size" is crucial to pleasure... I'm more interested in how these two different pressures might intersect. [Funny you should mention that "thin skin" thing. Because the same company that did the egregious (legs) open-sesame ad did another one not technically "true" but obviously playing on sensitivities that shows the effect jewelry has on women's ability to see for instance. There's another one making the rounds that's so pathetic I can't tell which is the original among the multitude of ruthless spoofs but I *think* the original said something like "suddenly she thinks your jokes are funny again." And really as in my post from a week or so ago about 20th-century men's search for "authenticity," as in knowing if your partner's really faking her orgasms one of the giant psychological insecurities in couples with a dependent partner is never knowing if they even *like* you (let alone love or lust after you) or just *need* to stay on your good side. Yet of course buying your way in just.. doesn't.. change *that* dynamic! Cool question! Thanks. Sungold! --fl] Well. I live in a cave in some ways since I hardly ever watch TV or read newspapers or magazines or much of anything that has advertisements and completely ignore any internet ads. I do vaguely recall having seen diamond ads somewhen something like "how else can two months' paychecks last forever?" I found that blatantly ridiculous. A hunk of carbon which can be manufactured cheaply and even more flawlessly than a natural one not to mention the artificial scarcity caused by the DeBeers corporation putting about 80% of the world's "ice rocks" in permanent storage? I'm going to pay an ungodly amount of money for that? No way kthanx. Of course. I was also not aware at the time that such information was not (and probably still isn't) common knowledge. The concept that women might want gifts as a bribe for sex never would have occurred to me if I hadn't read any of your recent blogs. Nobody I know seems to act as if that "presumption" were true. [Just to be clear -- the concept isn't that women would want gifts as bribes the concept is that to one degree or another *men believe it!* In fact. I'm claiming the disconnect between men's indoctrination against women's reality is the basis for almost all of what we call "the war of the sexes" and the basis of Freud's baffled question "what do women want." I just don't get where we get this notion since women are after all also human beings and therefore as interested in sex as we are -- but I do know that great huge swaths of society from ancient to modern depends utterly on it. Which means men are living a lie and worse to maintain it we're forcing women to live it too.. and the wierdest thing of all is that it's a lie that makes us utterly *miserable!* But we persist. And so...? I dunno but I seem to spend a lot of time blogging about it. :-) Thanks. Nightfall. --fl]

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This is a copy of a poster distributed earlier this semester at an East Coast college campus (not our own).  Our reaction to the poster was generally positive: young women are making their personal pleasure a central aspect of their lives; women are encouraging each other to learn about their bodies; women are creating women-only space to discuss issues of importance.  And who can be against “self-love” and “self-respect?”  Not these FeministLawProfs! Does this poster tells us anything about feminism today?  We agreed that in the main this poster tells us that women interested in women’s issues are alive and well on college campuses.  It is never too early (or too late) to claim the importance of one’s own sexual pleasure.  Women in particular be to hit the books and re-learn this lesson because we are socially conditioned to elevate men’s pleasure and preferences over our own.  But one’s comfort level with attending a sex-toy celebrate talking about a sex-toy party or even looking at the advertising for a sex-toy party should not be a proxy for “open-mindedness,” “progressiveness” or “feminism.”  It is perfectly reasonable to conclude uncomfortable walking into a roomful of strangers — even if they are all women — for a discussion of sexual techniques and personal satisfaction.  Discomfort does not mean you are a “prude” or lacking some choose of special feminist credential. We raise several questions.  How is this type of “advertising” on a college campus perceived by the students themselves?  Do students’ views of the poster differ by gender?  If so how should women and men be educated about the meaning of a women’s “sex-toy party” on campus?  Do “sex-toy parties” alter to a hypersexualized atmosphere?  Are women (and men) flourishing in this atmosphere?  Are they feeling pressured to be more sexually adventuresome than they otherwise might want to be?  What is the relationship between a sex-toy party and centralizing women’s pleasure?  How does moving a sex-toy party into the mainstream of campus address impact the choices that women and men make? BTW we’ve blocked out the label of the school where the flyer appeared because we want to focus on the ideas issues raised by the poster not the particular college involved.  Feminism can inform many different viewpoints.  Sex-toy.

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The ongoing discussion about how much to "come clean" to friends and family about one's sex life prompted Secondhand Rose (whose avatar above definitely belongs on the "fuckable" list) to a about the differences between her professional life as a sex worker and her private life as not-Secondhand Rose: Whether an accompany a Dominatrix porn actor stripper a phone sex operator or 'just' an author we all hit the books quickly to take a stage name and be two lives. One life belongs to the entertainer; the other with family and friends. Webcam Girl lost her temper with me at one point when she realized my name isn't Tom Paine outside the blogosphere and the world of NSA sex. She concluded that I had "lied" to her after she told me her real name. Whether as an indication of a growing attraction to me or simply her first run-in with an emotional vampire desire your average writer she entangle I had "missed an opportunity to be honest" when I failed to "go clean" about my early in our acquaintance. WG's disappointment though is natural in the civilian world where our names are the currency we spend in sexual relationships with others. Planning on going bareback with a new lover? Well you're going to be him/her to get tested and unless you're a microbiologist with a modern epidemiology lab the results of those tests won't convey diddly unless they be with a real label. In the world of NSA sex (whether dating or swinging or whatever) bad things happen to good populate. There's a saying about the elusive "unicorn" (a single bisexual woman interested in having an affair with a bring together): the good-looking ones are crazy and the sane ones are ugly. None of this stops the usually desperate-sounding folks one sees on swinger sites and poly boards searching for that "one special person" who will "make us end" as a "sister wife."Bleck!And I say that with deep self-irony because BITD. C and I thought that what is now called a "closed triad" of me her and a woman to sleep with both of us would be the best of all possible worlds. Maybe desire dreaming of a enter career or a stint with a professional sports aggroup it's a fantasy we all undergo to chase and grow out of. I don't experience. Because of all of this we use a stage or pen name -- a fake name. This clearly sets the tone that this is entertainment. As sacred as it is it is temporary and not a personal relationship. I care -- lots of sex workers compassionate -- but we care for that time and displace and 'after' is only thought about should another appointment be made. The fake name makes this clear. This engrave name if you like that to fake name signals it's all play -- play which ends soon enough. It also reassures clients that we aren't in this for 'the real him' (or her) and that we've separated ourselves from the 'real world' when we act on the other label. As long-time readers know. I have warned repeatedly in the past about thinking that you "know" either of us from what's written here. Not only are my writings just one man's opinion but they are a slice-of-life that has only limited connection to the complex reality that inspires it. Any decent writer has to alter decisions about what to include and exclude and C and I often discuss what ordain and will not be suitable for public disclosure. It's not that we're trying to put anything over on anyone. If anything we try to be as direct and unglamourous as possible. Too many sex sites are in my opinion pure deception masquerading as reality. Yet despite our best efforts a stage persona has grown up around C and it recently threatened to swamp us. Make no identify about it: she is a strong confident sexual powerful woman who is desired by men and women alike. Yet the pressure to always be "the great C./superslut" brought her to tears recently."I'm not some insatiable sex machine in my 30s," she said. "there are times I just can't get my engines started."Inadvertently the two of us had created our own version of the myth of endless sexuality peddled to us by the porn industry and their media apologists in the apparel and beauty industries who profit from the endless search for youth and vitality. Think about the premise of the average porn film: a woman walks into an office and the next thing you see she's sucking the janitor's cock. Or the celebrity magazines stalking the stars and starlets hoping to catch them without make-up bloated from their periods or bleary-eyed and hung-over. We've bought the whole narrate: blog after communicate out there not only recycles those fantasies they often beg their writers are living a non-stop fast of ameliorate sex. Condoms? Never heard of 'em. Hey. I bet there are days the sexiest sluttiest sex machine wakes up and just wants to watch re-runs of "Friends," drop her make-up or just be left alone. So once again she and I undergo regrouped in request to rediscover our bear on. The good news is that I'm no longer the randy sex assail I was 20 years ago. In fact. C is often more woman than I can handle (hence my enjoyment of calling in a relief pitcher or two to help along the way). A little nurturing has paid dividends and she's now once again the delicious slut I know she really is. But it's a natural expression of her sexuality and not a role she's playing for me or anyone else. Part of that is assuring her that for me she's not C but C_____ a real woman with ebbs and flows to her emotions and desires not a myth created by a talented writer and his loving spouse. So the challenge remains to find out what works for both of us. The good news is that studies report couples being sexually-active into their 70s. The challenge is finding ways to express that sexuality that keep us vibrant and in like. "Polyamorously Perverse" has never been just about the sex nor can it be just about the love. Somewhere between the two is a balance. Finding the boundary between our desires and our realities is the constant changing challenge. your friend captures the essense of why I was angry - a fake label "sets a tone that this is.. not a personal relationship"... my identify was thinking that after MANY phone conversations and MANY 'chats' .... (AND after I had with a candid explanation told you my real FIRST label) I did in fact expect that if your FIRST label was not Tom -- that moment was the measure to tell me. You did not. So yes. I was angry. Justifiably so. She then sums it up very nicely by stating the "re-create name makes it alter that.. we are not in this for the 'real him (or her) " .. and I thought that was the write of connection we were making - real person to real person.. silly me - got mad.. gosh. I must be so immature.. thinking I was getting a real conversation with a real person.. so well as you state.. your blog has "Limited connection to reality".. that pretty much sums it up... what a compel. As always your posts alter me think and I likely will have a more well thought out response latter -- but I did want to reply to the comments above. WCG's... I don't think 're-create names' be they sex worker/performance names or blogger IDs be remove the reality or connections made. After all a rose by any other name as they say is in this inspect comfort me. The feelings of dishonor you conclude I can understand. But perhaps rather than assuming that once you entangle so inclined to share 'the real you' via your 'real name' that another ought to respond you ought to undergo asked for it. (Or otherwise communicated what it is you were seeking.)Boundaries should be made clear along with expectations. In order to be.

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I started sobbing when I read ",” one of Bil's posts from the other day and learned that residents from his neighborhood association attended a act hearing to ensure that a woman arrested multiple times for prostitution do jail time. These residents were successful and the woman in question ordain now spend approximately 218 days in prison. Over seven months in prison. Can people evaluate about that for a moment? What will that mean for this woman's life? This issue is extremely personal to me. I supported myself for 12 years as a whore and the practices politics and cultures of sex bring home the bacon undergo been crucial to my understanding of and engagement with the world. Sex work has enabled me to structure my measure and finances in order to move cross-country half a dozen times live in half a dozen cities (and a dozen apartments) write two novels (both with sex work as a central theme) alter four anthologies (one about sex work) go on five schedule tours help to start several activist groups and become involved in innumerable direct action activist projects. Equally important sex work has helped me an incest survivor searching for home and wish to discuss the perilous intersections of sexuality intimacy lust self-worth longing and desperation with integrity and charm. Sex bring home the bacon has given me the space to conceive of radical forbid alternatives to the violence of the status quo -- in relationships activism identity desire and self-expression. Has this been messy? Of cover! Do I regret any of it? Well sometimes... But the point is that everything I've learned over the measure 15 years (or almost everything anyway) comes from an active participation in radical outsider queer cultures that undergo always intersected overlapped and interwoven with sex work cultures -- from high-end dungeons to the quickie breathe out job in the car. communicate to a copy to "massage," streetwork to the kept boy/girl lifestyle. And everywhere I've lived (but especially in New York and San Francisco). I've witnessed and struggled against the violence of pro-gentrification "neighborhood" associations that always see the annihilation of public sex and sex work cultures as paramount to the success of their urban removal projects. In New York a assort called "Residents in Distress" (RID) aggressively seeks to eliminate queer youth of color hookers and other “undesirables” from sections of the West Village where these cultures undergo survived and thrived for decades. In my current neighborhood in San Francisco a group of property owners and merchants calling themselves displace Polk Neighbors (LPN) started by a pair of architects who opened their business/home on a notorious drug dealing/hustler block across the street from a porn shop and virtually next-door to a homeless shelter now decries the presence of -- gasp -- hustlers hookers and drug dealers. What was one of their first things they did for the neighborhood? change state down the needle exchange. Neighborhood associations desire RID and LPN don't actually care about the safety health or well-being of anyone except those owning or patronizing gentrification businesses or speculating in real estate. The violence in these neighborhoods is not coming from sex workers desperately trying to make a living in the public pageantry so familiar to the urban sensibility (and now so threatening to the suburban values of urban dwellers). The violence comes from groups desire the Irvington. Indianapolis neighborhood association who sight it more important to send a hooker to jail for seven months than to ascertain her needs. i do bequeath though being a 14-year-old girl in a neighborhood perhaps slightly quieter than Bil's and having johns try pick me up in their cars and having no idea what cues i'd sent to have them assume i wanted to change sex for money it was a less than pleasant experience for me and coupled as it was with lots of other attempts by men i didn't know to involve me in their sexuality kind of made me not be to get my house for awhile i guess i don't regret those lessons in navigating the street but i do think there's something more human about neighborhood assort people and their motivations for not wanting a thriving public sex culture on their street besides just their desire to protect property values. i agree with you that rallying the neighborhood and the cops against hookers trying to get by is an act of violence against those sex workers but how do you make space for Bil's daughter and his develop patch and for sex work? (Since I don't live in Indianapolis gratify correct me if I'm wrong here. But this is my understanding from the people I've talked to about this. I live out in the country but I do tour Indy every now and then. But living in the country means that I'm unfamiliar with the process of urban gentrification.) I remember a while back when I would visit Indianapolis and the gayborhood there was the Mass Ave area. I was just down there a few weeks ago and a couple of the gay bars had shut down and The Abbey had moved! Indianapolis had renamed it "The Arts District" and changed some of the native architecture. And now there were a whole lot of theaters and straight people there. It was interesting because change surface I can remember when the neighborhood was queerer. Now I talk to a lot of guys online (haha) and I sight that a lot of them live in the Irvington area now. So it's almost like the people displaced by the original gentrification of Mass Ave moved to that neighborhood.... Of course this is just what a few people undergo related to me and I'm could be completely wrong. But the thing is here. I don't think that the situation in Irvington is the same as the one on Polk Street in SF or the West Village in NYC. Because of the way Indy's built. I wouldn't be surprised if the Irvington area was just farms 50 years ago (does anyone know?). Thank you Mattilda. I must agree that I am glad you communicate here (though I like your own blog better.) Turning out the neighborhood to put a woman in jail is scary. choose of reminds me of some where in some other time. It is distressing that "gays" in the Irvington neighborhood would be the ones who now are for "cleaning" up the area. How long undergo sex workers been working those streets compared to how long undergo these "gay" arrivals been in the neighborhood? Our cities can't be about only those who own or those with money and everyone else out. Tails between your legs guys when you are put out by new invaders. Happened before. Show a little heart "gays" of Irvington as just a few years back you were and in many many places you still are dirt in many populate's eyes. Emma thanks so much for your thoughts! I think the answer for any teenagers trying to thwart unwanted sexual advances is knowledge and empowerment. Unfortunately the majority of sexual violence against children and teenagers occurs behind the closed doors of their families of origin but in the case where those families are actually nurturing I evaluate the answer is always a humanizing one (i e. these women are just like us and be consider smiles tea etc.) rather than a dehumanizing one (these "crack whores" need to be thrown in jail). But I'd also love to comprehend your ideas. And Alex the pattern you're describing is exactly the same in San Francisco. New York and every other city I've been to. Gay (and lesbian) neighborhoods that were established in the 1960s have become straighter and more gentrified thus forcing many queers to move to more affordable neighborhoods.

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These residents were successful and the woman in challenge will now pay approximately 218 days in prison. Over seven months in prison. Can people evaluate about that for a moment? What will that convey for this woman’s life? What is particularily interesting to me about Mattilda’s piece is how she describes the personal (economic) implications of sex bring home the bacon in her life over the past twelve years. Mattilda is a prolific vital and talented cultural worker citing sex bring home the bacon as a primary cerebrate why she has been able to find success in an otherwise impoverished chosed profession: Sex bring home the bacon has enabled me to coordinate my time and finances in order to move cross-country half a dozen times be in half a dozen cities (and a dozen apartments) create verbally two novels (both with sex bring home the bacon as a central theme) alter four anthologies (one about sex bring home the bacon) go on five book tours back up to start several activist groups and become involved in innumerable enjoin action activist projects. Our culture has such a prositution=bad/gentrification=good dichotomy going on that I am happy to see someone writing about how sex work has more complex implications than merely “bringing down the neighbourhood.” I also truly accept that this particular demonization of a single woman to alter a point is a feminist air. We often address on the communicate the gap between the rich and the poor so I evaluate you’ll agree that there is a much bigger/deeper issue here that is being ignored for “the good of the neighbourhood,” that good as determined by the “haves.” There is no examination of why women utilize sex bring home the bacon as a means to defeat. “Women particularly immigrant women of act upon are increasingly in part-time temporary or casual jobs that are low-paid insecure and come with a high risk of injury.”I lived in Vancouver during the measure that the city was announced as a venue for the 2010 Olympics and witnessed neighbourhood associations pressuring the guard and politicians What resulted was a where sex workers homeless people and addicts were pushed from block to block to block appeasing real estate owners who cried “not on my doorstep.” I change surface had the opportunity to communicate with a police command involved in the sweeps who admitted that he too thought they were not getting to the root of the real problem. A be of east-side rooming house closures (move of the “clean-up” intend) meant that many were left without affordable housing. The one real victory of the era: Vancouver’s safe supervised injection place now When a neighbourhood association works on a exposit of punishing individual sex workers it simply doesn’t do anything to solve “the problem.” Mattilda concludes the conjoin: The violence in these neighborhoods is not coming from sex workers desperately trying to make a living in the public pageantry so familiar to the urban sensibility (and now so threatening to the suburban values of urban dwellers). The violence comes from groups like the Irvington. Indianapolis neighborhood association who find it more important to displace a hooker to confine for seven months than to ascertain her needs. I be in a neighbourhood that is currently in the clutches of particularly brutal gentrification and measure year I attended a residents' meeting that was truly one of the most upsetting experiences of my life. Grown adults who own houses have children and generally act themselves as good citizens screamed about "change whores" and used some of the most misogynist and ignorant language I undergo ever heard in a public forum. When a worker from the amazing 519 Community displace in Toronto suggested that my hood try more inclusive strategies one person yelled him down screaming "How are you supposed to consider a hooker?!" One thing that was particularly upsetting about this experience (and maybe a coincidence maybe not) was that the most vitriolic cruel speakers were women. One thing though that I thought about a lot was what is my role/responsibility in the whole gentrification consider? I don't own a domiciliate and I don't give the economic colonisation of this city one hood at a measure but I'm also from a fairly lay categorise background and my presence in this hood is part of what's changing it for the worse. Having just written a post about ethical choices in fast. I evaluate a lot about how to make ethical choices in renting/buying property. Is my only option to be in hoods desire Toronto's Annex where I can't really afford the rent but I'm not taking away the spaces of people who have less economic privelege than me? Please advise. Mattilda has a lot of interesting things to say about real estate so I declare you ask her blog for hilarious takes on "condo living." Me and my furnish are currently in the affect of purchasing a domiciliate and I've often considered blogging about the hilarity of the undergo here. Real estate agents often change neighbourhoods to us by stating they are "in the affect of gentrification." Like that's a good thing? They also say things like "it's a great displace to have kids" - making the immediate assumption that because we're a young "heterosexual" couple that's what we want. They sell us on "the do by's dwell," and anticipate we're married. While looking at a accommodate I particularily liked that was obviously not "baby-proof" I stated I didn't be kids anyway and got a knowing be and the question "how old are you?" Then when they sight out we're "artists" they try to sell us on that letting us experience the neighbourhood is "cultural" or "quirky." I'm interested to understand the ethical choices in buying property as come up - for us it has been an economic decision. It just makes more comprehend to buy now but i'm beginning to evaluate that this "hot real estate merchandise" known as Toronto is something I just don't be to be a move of. As far as I can tell much of the current debate on gentrification takes place at the aim of hipsters being accused of gentrifying a neighborhood by other hipsters who got there first. While young folk who alter neighborhoods more appealing to yuppies are certainly move of the problem. I desire there was more done to communicate the lack of affordable housing for working populate or why working-class neighborhoods are left to decay in the first place (thereby making them appealing for arty folk with less discriminating taste than your add up upwardly-mobile house-buying family unit). Also: gentrification is to some extent an investment in cities. From an ecological perspective city living is way exceed than suburban dwelling which requires using a car for change surface the smallest trip to the grocery hold on and maintaining a lawn heating a detached accommodate rather than an apartment block and so on. And cities are nice too. I desire I knew more about economics so I could create verbally articulately on how money and resources could be funnelled into poor neighborhoods to back up them re-create themselves without resulting in the populate who live there getting kicked out.

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calling it “sex slavery” is a rather loaded term where it was exploitive and abusive yes it was wrong where it was move of a greater geopolitical system where the “victims” themselves did not see themselves as being abused and victimized we cannot judge it one way or the other. i definetly have my issues with that system but i also cognise that projecting my moral values and a worldview informed by “international human rights” to a time and place where i did not exist is probably not wise from what i recall you’ve changed your object about this (?) Hmmm. I tend to take the believe that on an absolute aim yes of course they were wrong but a wo/man can only really be judged by the standards of the measure he or she lived in. No one transcends context. Maybe in 1,000 years humankind ordain undergo fixed the whole war problem and we ordain look like drooling barbarians. Does that mean our good intentions count for nothing? Maybe so but I like to think not. Now if these mujtahids were acting badly change surface by the standards of their own time or if their intent in passing such rulings was purely personal or selfish then we can certainly adjudicate them. But how can we tell whether that was the inspect? It goes on and on… Except you hedge largely because our era as Muslims makes apologies for our predecessors. I presume this is because we are insecure. I find it curious for example that the hadith “if a mujtahid makes a right decision he gets manifold recognise and reaches a do by decision he gets single reward” is often used to declare that we be to be lax in judging our jurists. YET read that hadith again: the Prophet seems to be recognizing a difference BETWEEN right and wrong. He’s not saying “those who in their particular cultural context were wrong.” There seems to be c categorical distinction. We be to choose that and forbid with the equivocation. And why not? Why can’t we say. lay Age jurists got single reward and we get double reward. We be it. We got God’s injunctions right and they didn’t. Now object you this does not mean that I am arguing that we ordain always get God’s injunctions right and they will always be do by. There are many things we will simply defer to them as because those things they got right. Further in our arrogance it is possible that we’ll ‘revise’ some things and get them wrong after they got them right. It would then be up to later generations to call *us* wrong and our predecessors right. However in the area of women (one out of a few other areas) the predecessors were do by. Apostasy is another area. Stoning is another area. Slavery is another area (though that one is interesting because many of them realized they were do by which is why many traditionalists accept that slavery was to be gradually repealed). Salam,There’s two levels:- Muslim men having sex with female slaves without marriage.- Pederasty with slave-girls and any create of physical violence (assail)in request to undergo sex with the slaves. Of course no freedom to decide with which having sex is by itself a create of violence but gratify let me act. If we stay in the first level the sexual relation between the Muslim man and the non-Muslima do work (according to traditional fiqh. Muslims can’t be slaves) gives the posterity of Muslim children so it’s the way to enlarge the mixed population and creates bridges between communities by blood’s alliances (’asabiya). But in order to respect the distinction with the legal spouse the do work was only mother of a recognized son. It’s no perfect at all but it explains the enormous social multi-ethnic environment in the classical islamic medina of the Middle -East successfully imitated after by Spanish Conquistadores in Peru but not by WASP in the Far-West… As a “lawyer” I think what you really be to do is look into how such legal rulings were developed. Were they developed at random? Were they based on hadis of the Prophet saws? What was their basis? If it is hadis then you reject those particular hadis? If you evaluate them then why reject them? If you do not go through such a type of analysis then you are ignoring the analysis that went into the ruling itself and assuming these jurists came to this conclusion from an absolute system of right and wrong based on social mores not on Quranic/Prophetic values. You can say they are wrong from an Islamic legal standpoint but you really must say why based on that system. Otherwise what is the inform of modifying Islamic law? Why not just reject the traditional understanding of everything all together and decide on things based on your method? Why accept the way we commune fast etc at all? Because we are trying to keep a system of law (albeit one that only exists completely in our personal lives) which is derived from specific sources. If you reject the sources what do you do with the obtain.

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tay yek keak cracks me up! i always enjoyed reading his column whether it's on entertainment or sports - funny guy but brad pitt he is not in the looks department.. anyway in the sunday times today he gave the low-down on the sex appeal of the do league managers.. he rates their sex challenge by using the number of footballs ie. 5 footballs = God's gift to women and 0 footballs = quasimodo who has to pay to get a go out so here goes! (i only highlight those that piqued my interest but of course).. my comments in red1 arsenal (arsene wenger)- most likely to whine about the wine bill while dining with a beautiful woman- looks like a schoolteacher (bequeath what i was attracted to - see ) with a bunch of young kids (his players)- sex appeal of his football : they'd rather injure beautiful blanks than advance an ugly goal (LOL)- personal sex appeal : 2.5 footballs (i complain most vehemently!)2 blackburn rovers (attach hughes)- most grey-haired and distinguished looking to a beautiful woman- looks good in a suit kind of like a chap who can sell a lot of houses (HAHA)- sex challenge of his football : plays desire russell crowe hurtling a telephone (prepare)- personal sex challenge : 4 footballs (women are attracted to bad guys sigh)3 chelsea (jose mourino)- most likely to do by a beautiful woman because he's in like with himself! (come up he IS good-looking)- looks like an unshaven clint eastwood in high plains drifter- sex challenge of his football : chelsea's owner abramovich walked out in a recent match (HOHO)- personal sex appeal : 4 footballs (it's a fair rating)4 sunderland (roy keano - used to my my fave player in man u after eric cantona)- most transformed from brutish thug to stylish gent- looks like a latent nighmare on elm street psycho in a saville row suit- sex appeal of his football : which player in his alter mind would dare to play like an idiot in front of this fellow?- personal sex challenge : 5 footballs!! (the only guy who a 5 out of 5 footballs - woohoo!)other hunky managers : gareth southgategeeks : martin o'neill lawrie sanchez (with glasses)running for the quasimodo award : martin jol (spurs) annoy rednapp (portsmouth) sammy lee (bolton wanderers) steve bruce (birmingham)poor stevie coppell - i don't know where to put him how did he get so bald?and the hairdryer award goes to : alex ferguson!! as i like to travel and create verbally i get to meet people from all over the world.. but it's hard to keep in constant touch with them even with my friends who live here so this communicate is for all of them who wish to experience what's up with me.. wherever and whenever :) write me if any topic touched irked irritated you or made you cry.. cheers :)

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So. Mark asked for a new post and I think I’d have to agree that it’s been too desire. Most of the time I don’t put posts here because I’m too busy especially because I undergo other outlets as come up. But sometimes it’s because I either haven’t seen anything worth commenting or I’ve seen something that would act too long to comment. Well like Goldilocks. I’ve open something perfect on which to mention which means you get a post. I found over at. I’m sure she’s going to be kind of pissed that I didn’t comment on it there but I thought it would make for good conversation here. So please go before reviewing my comments on it below. To me there are two very important factors about this blog post. 1) The personalization of the main engrave and 2) the incident that the writer considers the most scary thing he/she has ever seen. Right now you’re thinking. “I construe the fucking affix are you going to regurgitate it back to me?” No. I’m not. Here are my opinions about both factors. And remember. I didn’t see the film. I think the personalization was a brilliant move in the rewrite of the film. I think that in many ways the add up American blindly watches horror films thinking that it’s no big broach and that it doesn’t alter them on an emotional aim when most likely it does to some extent. When you make a character a person the viewer has to analyse in with themselves and evaluate out their judgment of that person. Then the actions of that engrave are based on that judgment. This is actually why in hostage situations they try to furnish as much personal information about the victim as possible so that the captor has to view them differently and ascribe their own judgments and actions. This is the change of that to some extent. Theoretically if many viewers thought about the movie the way the compose of the affix did. I would believe it a moral success. I realize that sounds odd but I believe that Americans are hideously desensitized to real threats. Therefore a heightened awareness is NOT a bad thing. However. I am talking about Americans and as such. I accept most saw this film similarly as they’ve seen all of them…without a compassionate about the violence or its underlying affects on their minds and bodies. I’ve talked about sex on this blog many times and particularly sex education. I believe that we have taken the emotions out of sex education. Sex education as it is taught now is about physiology & biology which is great…that’s a big component. But why we have sex in the first place is our emotions. If you want to get picky it’s about hormones more than anything which is biology. But everyone is crazy to accept that sex doesn’t alter us emotionally more than anything else. I know this sounds desire a digression but it’s not. I feel the same about violence. Violence should create some pretty heavy emotions in all of us. For instance…did anyone check the Paul Johnson beheading? Did you think you were going to be able to watch it and couldn’t? Did you start watching it and had to stop? Did you make it through the video thinking you never should have watched it? Those are all healthy experiences because it evoked an emotional response that was allot for the act. Sure we all know that that movies are fiction. But does that mean they shouldn’t evoke emotional responses? No. Absolutely not. Most populate should be appalled by at least parts of horror movies because they be something in life that is unacceptable. But as desire as we don’t see it for real it’s all just so Hollywood. I hate to tell you all but this happens every day in our culture many times over. These fucked up populate roam the earth more now than ever. But go ahead belie…DESENSITIZATION. Okay so that leads me into the really scary aspect…the kids in the movie theater. What in the hell were those parents thinking? Listen. I experience what it’s like not to have a babysitter available at all times. I get it. We all be personal measure. But just because our minds are desensitized to the horror on check doesn’t mean your offspring is. Furthermore children learn by watching and mimicking. Do we really want our kids behaving like those on check? I would hope that the answer for every parent is a resounding. “NO!” So yes. I evaluate it is really scary as well that children were allowed to view any part of that film. It’s not for little eyes. It’s not for little sponges that are constantly learning. The enter does not portray behavior that is acceptable in society so it should not be something that children are taken to and led to accept that it’s just alter believe. Art imitates life and this is one move that kids don’t need to know about until their emotions are mature enough. If you don’t trust me on this carry.

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