Conner Habib’s Twitter bio — via @ConnerHabib — reads as follows:
occult maneuvers • sexual liberation • web series Against Everyone with Conner Habib starts 6/5/17! • 18+ only because my butt is scary, I guess
The following tweets sum up his thoughts on ethical porn — specifically, why not “ethical porn.” They are reprinted in full below, with permission.
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And now, a word on the woefully clumsy “feminist porn”and “ethical porn” movements.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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From the outset, both “feminist” and “ethical” porn are fumbling. Implicit in the names: Porn in general is neither”feminist”nor “ethical”— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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Porn itself is embedded in an unethical, misogynist culture. Yet it transcends -more than most arts/businesses- these cultural constraints— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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That we need “ethical” or “feminist” porn is an assumption echoed by sex negative and anti-sex work voices masquerading as progressives.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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You know what often differentiates “feminist” and “ethical” porn from just plain porn for performers?
Lower pay.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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The idea that we are contributing to some social good is too often meant to take the place of higher/fairer wages.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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PORN IS ALREADY ETHICAL AND FEMINIST.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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When people say they want “feminist” porn – what they often mean is “I’ve made this misogynist assumption about what women want sexually”— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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Too often, people making feminist/ethical porn arguments say porn needs to be “loving” and show “real affection” – No. It doesn’t.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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Porn is an art form. Porn should be as passionate, beautiful, loving, frightening, powerful. sad, ridiculous as any other art.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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But, once again, because sex is considered a special case, porn is “supposed” to carry a social weight no other art form does.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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And to make matters worse, porn is dismissed as artless/frivolous and at the same time taken to be a “social concern” of utmost urgency.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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This of course is indicative of our views of sex in this culture: “petty” “shallow” “just lust” “empty” – yet TOTALLY SERIOUS— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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Instead of “ethical porn” what we CAN do is make our labor practices better. Just like ANY OTHER INDUSTRY.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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Instead of “feminist porn” what we can do is make more kinds of porn with different sorts of themes/ideas. Just like ANY OTHER ART.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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This is a way in which sex negativity exists even among many porn performers and producers: the idea that what we are doing is damaging.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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Even when you’ve sufficiently liberated yourself enough to make sexual art, you are bombarded with the same negativity as everyone,daily.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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Undoing sex negativity is a never-ending and daily process.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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So instead of interrogating porn, we need to interrogate the culture that tells us to interrogate porn.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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Interrogate culture and you’ll see how porn ALREADY brings a potent set of ethics and a deep feminism to an unethical, misogynist culture— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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In other words, porn is already pulling its weight. More than most art forms.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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We can ALWAYS do better. But “how can porn be better?” is the wrong place to start.— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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From now on, when anyone asks you,”How can porn be more ethical?”reply:”You should be asking: How can culture start living up to porn?”
— Conner Habib (@ConnerHabib) June 11, 2017
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