How To Make Money Like a Porn Star is still getting buzz around the Blogosphere. This time, the topic of interest has to do with a particular comparison made between HTMMLaPS and Alan Moore’s Lost Girls.
Is one type of offensive pornography any better or worse than the other?
Point:
In her exclusive with Bernard Chang about How To Make Money Like a Porn Star, QueenEtCetera speaks more about the series and brings up Alan Moore’s Lost Girls:
Excerpt:
(And I would like to know where the angry bloggers were when a teenage Dorothy Gale was graphically depicted masturbating in the critical darling “The Lost Girls.” Because the only people in the comics world who seemed offended by that were me, my friend Erica, and John Byrne.)
Counterpoint:
MsMarvel1 virulently disagrees with this statement in her livejournal post:
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Maybe they didn’t have a problem with it because … oh, there happens to be a BIG WORLD OF DIFFERENCE in a woman masturbating than a woman being RAPED. You know, that whole PERSONAL CHOICE OVER WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BODY thing tends to be important to people.
There’s a lot of fruit for discussion, comparing both works. What makes something controversial versus just plain offensive? What makes one work better or worse than the other?
It’s something to consider.
October 16th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Subject: Lost Girls Vs. Porn Star
The depiction of a teenage girl masturbating with her legs spread open and one tit popping out of her dress in ‘Lost Girls’ has nothing to do with women having control over their body. It’s about a MAN including this image of an UNDER-AGE GIRL in his book because it’s erotic. This wasn’t a “Judy Blume book” exploration of a teen discovering her sexuality. It was your typical “barely legal” porn pose. It’s indefensible. And as I said before, if I have to choose between high-brow comix that exploits women under the excuse of “Art” and low-brow comix that freely admits to being one hair away from caveman-brand entertainment, bring on “Cherry Poptart” and the Adam Hughes covers.
October 16th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
So, two men collaborated on a book that’s marketed as “based on personalities Strauss met while helping Jenna Jameson” that includes a woman getting raped and learning to like her rapist, and then becoming an accessory to rape, and this is preferable to a man collaborating with his fiance` to make pornography based on a bunch of fairy tales?
Both fail the empowerment quiz, but as I see it only one is getting the negative score here.
October 18th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think QueenEtCetera was saying HTMMLAPS was perferable to Lost Girls. And to be fair, thereis rape and underage sex in Lost Girls as well. I still Think HTMMLAPS is worse though.