1. 14:33 19th Aug 2011

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    jemimaaslana: queercakes: ipomoeaandthestarstealers: miseryxchord: Queer Porn Star Accused of Pedophilia for Breastfeeding Baby By Diane Anderson-Minshall Weeks after queer porn star Madison Young had her baby, she created an art exhibit titled “Becoming MILF.” The concept, according to Jezebel.com, was to explore how Young now embodies a contradiction, the dichotomy to end all dichotomies — that of the Madonna and the whore. At the show’s opening, she served up self-made breast-milk shakes and displayed a baby quilt made of burp cloths and porn star panties. Turns out not every feminist porn star agrees. According to Salon.com, a series of sex worker Twitter wars ensued, the controversy tapping into “culture-wide mommy issues.” Porn star Furry Girl (who is known for her, um, stage name–like features) criticized Young for publicly breast-feeding, tweeting that only “creeps and pedophiles” are interested in seeing a porn star breast-feed and insinuated that exposing her child to such an audience was abusive. Girl called Young a “a revolting person” and dubbed her defenders “baby fetishists” and “pedos.” Of course Young (née Tina Butcher) is already a well-known feminist porn star, director, author, and the founder of Femina Potens, an ever-evolving, queer and trans nonprofit gallery and performance space in California that the San Francisco Chronicle calls “the most happening art space in the city; a revolution in art and sex.” She’s curated the gallery for years, mixing envelope-pushing women’s sexuality exhibitions and spoken word shows from lesbians like Annie Sprinkle with less kinky feminist projects from literati like Michelle Tea. Young’s shown up on such outlets as IFC and the History Channel and in MSNBC’s Brian Alexander’s book America Unzipped, which has a whole chapter on her art and work. So what was this controversial display of pedophilia that Furry Girl imagines? According to Salon, Young posed for a black-and-white photograph dressed up like Marilyn Monroe while clutching her daughter to her bare breast, nonchalantly breast-fed on a video, and then announced that she would nurse live and in person at an upcoming event meant to promote “health awareness for our queer, kinky, and sex positive communities.” At the event itself, Young discussed breast health, while other presenters talked about breast cancer, antiretroviral drugs, and safe sex. “It wasn’t a sex party; it was an adult sex-ed class hosted by sex workers,” writes Salon’s Tracy Clark-Florey. Furry Girl, an actress in vegan porn, tweeted that context is at the root of her argument, though she no longer wants to comment on the debacle. Meanwhile, Young returned to social media in hopes of ending the Twitter mommy sex wars: “The only one sexualizing this image of me breastfeeding is you. Which makes me feel truly disgusted and violated.” Our society is seriously screwed up in sexualizing a female body’s parts that are being used in a way they’re meant to function, to the point it feels it needs to control and limit their use for that function, based on the last couple generations being indoctrinated to believe that babies should drink formula because it’s healthier, because breasts = sex toys, therefore breastfeeding = dirty. I have the state laws regarding breastfeeding in public bookmarked on my phone’s browser for when I feed the kid anywhere.  It’s a pretty BF-friendly area, the only people I’ve gotten the side-eye from were some older men when I fed the kid on a bench overlooking the Locks.  What, would you rather he screams?  Here are your options, disgusted onlookers: my child goes hungry and screams because you find breastfeeding off-putting, or I put my boobs to the use I choose to and feed my kid for free in an unobtrusive fashion.  MY BODY MY CHOICE. The image is absolutely stunning and not remotely sexual. Yes to commentary! But… was I the only one who noticed this: “Porn star Furry Girl (who is known for her, um, stage name–like features) criticized Young” “Her, um, stage name-like features”! Okay, she’s hairy, why is this relevant at all? Way to go with the body-hair shame in the very opening of a post that supposedly disagrees with and seeks to counter body/breast-feeding shame. Someone’s amount of body hair is apparently very relevant, but actually saying it outright (“she’s hairy”) cannot be done? So you beat around the bush (pun intended) with that bullshit “stage name-like features”. Please. Not impressed here.

    jemimaaslana:

    queercakes:

    ipomoeaandthestarstealers:

    miseryxchord:

    Queer Porn Star Accused of Pedophilia for Breastfeeding Baby

    By Diane Anderson-Minshall

    Weeks after queer porn star Madison Young had her baby, she created an art exhibit titled “Becoming MILF.” The concept, according to Jezebel.com, was to explore how Young now embodies a contradiction, the dichotomy to end all dichotomies — that of the Madonna and the whore. At the show’s opening, she served up self-made breast-milk shakes and displayed a baby quilt made of burp cloths and porn star panties. Turns out not every feminist porn star agrees. According to Salon.com, a series of sex worker Twitter wars ensued, the controversy tapping into “culture-wide mommy issues.”

    Porn star Furry Girl (who is known for her, um, stage name–like features) criticized Young for publicly breast-feeding, tweeting that only “creeps and pedophiles” are interested in seeing a porn star breast-feed and insinuated that exposing her child to such an audience was abusive. Girl called Young a “a revolting person” and dubbed her defenders “baby fetishists” and “pedos.”

    Of course Young (née Tina Butcher) is already a well-known feminist porn star, director, author, and the founder of Femina Potens, an ever-evolving, queer and trans nonprofit gallery and performance space in California that the San Francisco Chronicle calls “the most happening art space in the city; a revolution in art and sex.” She’s curated the gallery for years, mixing envelope-pushing women’s sexuality exhibitions and spoken word shows from lesbians like Annie Sprinkle with less kinky feminist projects from literati like Michelle Tea. Young’s shown up on such outlets as IFC and the History Channel and in MSNBC’s Brian Alexander’s book America Unzipped, which has a whole chapter on her art and work.

    So what was this controversial display of pedophilia that Furry Girl imagines? According to Salon, Young posed for a black-and-white photograph dressed up like Marilyn Monroe while clutching her daughter to her bare breast, nonchalantly breast-fed on a video, and then announced that she would nurse live and in person at an upcoming event meant to promote “health awareness for our queer, kinky, and sex positive communities.”

    At the event itself, Young discussed breast health, while other presenters talked about breast cancer, antiretroviral drugs, and safe sex. “It wasn’t a sex party; it was an adult sex-ed class hosted by sex workers,” writes Salon’s Tracy Clark-Florey.

    Furry Girl, an actress in vegan porn, tweeted that context is at the root of her argument, though she no longer wants to comment on the debacle. Meanwhile, Young returned to social media in hopes of ending the Twitter mommy sex wars: “The only one sexualizing this image of me breastfeeding is you. Which makes me feel truly disgusted and violated.”

    Our society is seriously screwed up in sexualizing a female body’s parts that are being used in a way they’re meant to function, to the point it feels it needs to control and limit their use for that function, based on the last couple generations being indoctrinated to believe that babies should drink formula because it’s healthier, because breasts = sex toys, therefore breastfeeding = dirty.

    I have the state laws regarding breastfeeding in public bookmarked on my phone’s browser for when I feed the kid anywhere.  It’s a pretty BF-friendly area, the only people I’ve gotten the side-eye from were some older men when I fed the kid on a bench overlooking the Locks.  What, would you rather he screams?  Here are your options, disgusted onlookers: my child goes hungry and screams because you find breastfeeding off-putting, or I put my boobs to the use I choose to and feed my kid for free in an unobtrusive fashion.  MY BODY MY CHOICE.

    The image is absolutely stunning and not remotely sexual.

    Yes to commentary!

    But… was I the only one who noticed this: “Porn star Furry Girl (who is known for her, um, stage name–like features) criticized Young”

    “Her, um, stage name-like features”! Okay, she’s hairy, why is this relevant at all? Way to go with the body-hair shame in the very opening of a post that supposedly disagrees with and seeks to counter body/breast-feeding shame. Someone’s amount of body hair is apparently very relevant, but actually saying it outright (“she’s hairy”) cannot be done? So you beat around the bush (pun intended) with that bullshit “stage name-like features”. Please.

    Not impressed here.