Last Summer, while Peggy was on her way back from the Second Annual Feminist Porn Award, I started working on a post tentatively entitled “What Do Pornography and Feminism Have In Common, Part 3″.

I started writing it because I was genuinely surprised that MATT AND KHYM received an award. The previous year we had already had our turn at the podium for a heterosexual title, so felt sure if we were going to get an award for anything, it was going to be for DAMON AND HUNTER.

I stopped writing because I didn’t want to seem like an ingrate, and I really didn’t know where I was going to go with the post, other than to say that the criteria for “feminist porn” at The Feminist Porn Awards pretty much disqualified all of the erotic work that my wife and most of her women friends enjoy.

I started in on it again because of things I read on Petra Joy’s Blog, Erika Lust’s Blog, and Audacia Ray’s Blog about blowjobs, pornography, and feminism.

It was a long post, quoting liberally from the chapter “Seeing Around the Edge of the Frame” in Walter Murch’s book IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. But once again I’ve shelved it.

Again I can’t explain exactly why, except to say that there’s nothing wrong with talking about why or how a filmmaker makes the films they make, but intentions and agendas only go so far.

If you’re a writer, the words have to make it onto the page; if you’re a painter, the paint has to make it onto the canvas; and if you’re a filmmaker, you’ve got to put it on the screen.

As far as blowjobs go, my understanding of feminism is that one of its central tenents is that a woman should be free to enjoy anything a man is free to enjoy. With that in mind, here are Damon and Hunter, talking about sucking dicks:

From DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER

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