Comments on: It’s Not About Procreation.

By: The (ongoing) War on Sex and Andrew Sullivan’s “Degenerate Republicanism” | Real Talk About Making Real Sex Films

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:15:47 +0000

[...] Proposition 8, I am reminded of my first exchange with Sullivan, when I forwarded him my essay, “It’s Not About Procreation”, which became grist for his post “Theocons vs. Breeders”. He ended his post with this: [...]

By: PBS Disappears Sex Links? | The Art & Business of Making Erotic Films

PBS Disappears Sex Links? | The Art & Business of Making Erotic Films — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:42:55 +0000

[...] because they were “pornographic”. I had my words used without attribution, let alone a link. Hell, I’ve even had a government ban one of my films from an entire [...]

By: alaclark

alaclark — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:03:18 +0000

Thanks, Tony: all this is most illuminating for a British reader/viewer.
Sheer bad manners indeed, for Sullivan not even to name his source! Is his blog in any way TIME-sponsored? — if it were I could just about accept that they might be anxious to avoid anything like ‘free publicity’ for any business, so mightn’t mention yours. Though of course the more likely suspicion would be that they are (or Sullivan is) looking over their shoulders for potentially offendable readers? But any writer, let alone so eloquent a writer as you are on this topic, both deserves to have it stated that his words have been quoted selectively, and for readers to be told his NAME, dammit!

By: Real Talk About Making Real Sex Films » Blog Archive » Time Magazine’s Andrew Sullivan Dishes Tony Comstock.

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:40:24 +0000

[...] If these words seem familiar to you, it might be because you read them here in my May 9, 2006 entry IT’S NOT ABOUT PROCREATION, a reference to the first line of DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER. (Sullivan’s edited version is consider less earthy than the original. I suppose that’s part of being a “conservative commentator”.) [...]

By: tony

tony — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:57:18 +0000

Thank you, CG. Sometimes when a post, especially one of my more impassionded posts goes by without comment I wonder if I haven’t lost my mind and my readers too.

Do you suppose these people who say such hateful things about love and sex have any idea how much pain they cause, or harm they inflict? Probably not. Thoughtlessness and selfishness are (thanfully) more common than genuine malice and evil.

By: chelsea girl

chelsea girl — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:42:11 +0000

You just made me all teary eyed.

Seriously.

Dang, that is a beautiful, powerful piece of prose, Tony Comstock. I’m proud to call you my friend.