What do you make of this?

I really can't figure out this clip...



Around a minute a half in, Jenna Jameson tells audience at the Adult Video Awards (held in Vegas, Sat. January 12), "Honesty is key...I will never ever ever spread my legs again in this industry. Ever!"

This 'honest revelation' was met by boos from the audience.

What's this about? Why boo her for this statement? Is this the audience's way of showing their sadness at her leaving? Or is it some sort of sick misogynistic outburst along the lines of, "We'll tell you when you shut your legs, bitch?"

Am I reading too much into this or is this disturbing?

Well, it's entirely possibly I am misconstruing the crowd's boos, but I know for a fact what IS gross, the winner of the award Jameson presented, was Stormy Daniels, who said, "Well I plan on spreading my legs for this industry for quite some time."

Lovely.

Iran believes porn stars should be executed

Yes Really. They just passed the law.

Now I want to be really careful here not to come off as anti-Muslim but this is the sheeyat that really scares me. Yes I'm aware that our own government is heavily influenced by patriarchal Christian values. But to date, I'm not aware of any law being introduced to execute strippers, prostitutes, porn stars or the like. And yet, it's introduced and PASSED in Iran. And where do they draw inspiration from-- oh right, the Quran.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corrupter of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corrupter of the world."

The term, "corrupter of the world" is taken from the Quran, the Muslims' holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual's criminal offenses. Under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty.

Just frickin' delightful. I wonder if progressive Muslims get as pissed as progressive Christians that their holy book is being used to advocate death.

I'm not a fan of porn. I've seen some-- whatever type you can order in hotel rooms (never roadtrip with college men) and I was grossly unimpressed if not turned-off altogether. But this message is very very dangerous. Displays of sexuality are punishable by death.

Convenient that the "porn" term is not really defined. Would a woman showing shoulders eventually be seen as pornographic? Would a pop star dancing sexily be porn? And yes, I really do think this law will be heavily sided to punish women. That's sort of the name of the game with radical Islam taken to extremes.

Placing so much hatred and fear around the subject of sex just makes me sad on so many levels.

Everyone in Iran better be very careful with their private home video stash.

Why we can’t catch Osama

Are you aware that the FBI has a “porn squad”?

I was not. And now that I know, I am confused. Do I laugh hysterically or bang my head against the wall?

A brief history:

The U.S.A. has always been a bit uptight about sex, (we were founded by Puritans after all) but according to all that I’ve read, “federal obscenity prosecutions have been out of style since the Reagan administration made pornography a signature issue in the 1980s.” (Apparently porn is the favorite issue of every wanna-be-cowboy, mean republican President.) Anyway…

The current “Porn Squad” formed earlier this September. It was federally funded by congress and backed by Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Keep in mind, I spent a summer working for a non-profit dedicated to abused women’s services so it isn’t like I enjoy, appreciate or even advocate porn. I’ve seen porn. It was the most turned off I’ve ever been in my life. Pornography makes my skin crawl.

That being said, people still have first amendment rights. I could understand the FBI cracking down on violent pornography or child pornography but that isn’t what this “special force” is doing. They are focusing on pornography for consenting adults. Um, can we say waste of time and resources?

Top priorities of FBI are:
-Protecting the United States from terrorist attack
-Foreign espionage
-Cyber-based attacks
-Public corruption

Below those priorities are civil rights, organized crime, white-collar crime and "significant violent crime."

Please tell me how porn figures into our top priority list? Above significant violent crime, civil rights or other cyber based crimes like identity theft?????

The government and Christian conservatives argue that “adult pornography is a threat to families and children.” I argue that it’s in poor taste but a bigger danger to your children is perhaps CHILD PORNOGRAPHY and your family would be better protected from identity theft than the big bad pornographer.

It’s no wonder we can’t catch Osama or run a decent, well-planned “war on terror”--- we’re too busy trying to get rid of Jenna Jameson.

And aren’t you thankful? Don’t you feel safer?

Didn’t think so.