‘The ban on female ejaculation is absolutely sexist, but it doesn’t concern women only’
Is there anyone who thinks that the UK porn ban is a good idea? Savages' Jehnny Beth has offered her opinions on the outlawing of on-screen female ejaculation et al on her Tumblr account. Predictably, she thinks it's a pretty shitty move.
"I felt personally offended when I heard the news," she wrote. "Why female ejaculation? Why face-sitting? These are the two (if not the only) most female empowering acts you can encounter in porn movies. Female ejaculation is the only visual representation of women’s pleasure in movies. If female ejaculation is banned, why male ejaculation is still allowed? What is the difference?"
Beth hit out at the "old pricks" who decide what people can and cannot do.
"When an institution, being governmental or religious, starts to regulate sexual practices, or sexual fantasies, we know we have a problem in our society. Same when the Pope says it’s not okay to have sex with condoms, or to get married when you are gay. Members of the cabinet choosing sexist arbitrary rules to regulate the contempt of pornographic movies, it makes absolutely no sense to me. Even though spanking and face-sitting are not banned from our private lives - you won’t be arrested for sitting on your man’s face at home - the ban on porn movies sends a clear puritan message."
She added: "And that’s it, I had enough of hearing a bunch of old pricks deciding for everyone what is right or what is wrong. The ban on female ejaculation is absolutely sexist, but it doesn’t concern women only. I don’t want any men, young or old, to think for one second that it is wrong, weird or shameful to ejaculate when you are a woman."
On Friday, hundreds of campaigners held a demonstration outside Parliament to register their displeasure at the introduction of the "can't dos" to UK pornography. Many couples indulged in clothes-on face-sitting in Westminster in protest at the sex act that has been controversially banned on the grounds that it's "dangerous".
