You can read yesterday’s blog to learn about a grant I made to a group of women to start a low cost abortion clinic. (Jerry Mander, a fellow board member, joined me in making the grant.)
About half a year later a group of women, including some from the earlier low cost abortion clinic group, visited me at my house. By then the abortion clinic had been shut down. These women wanted to tell me how they were using the money and to ask for more.
They lived in Oakland. They had organized a large group of women to shut down a porn movie theater. They were proud of their organizing.
I was very disturbed. I had help found, Coyote, Margo St. James’ prostitutes union to decriminalize prostitution. I was strongly in favor of pornography and everything else that opened up the repressed field of human sexual behavior.
Pornography is widely used by people who find it stimulating for their sex lives and is important to people who have limited sex lives. Pornography is beneficial to humans. These women were on a Puritan rampage that was mean-spirited and harmful to many people.
From that point on I vowed not to help any so called 'feminist' group. The evidence I saw suggested that feminism was highly Puritan and repressive. I subsequently taught some classes in financial empowerment and always made sure there were no anti-porn people in the class.
Fortunately the Internet has made porn free and abundant. Generally taking that issue off the table except for Muslims and Muslim governments.