Dr. Robert Jensen, author of “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity,” will be on hand to answer questions after Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar’s Third Coast Activist Film Night showing of Chyng Sun’s “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships,” exploring questions such as “What is the price?” and “Could it be all about money and power?” on Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 7:00 pm.
Always provocative, educational, and worth a listen, Dr. Jensen’s books are each one, a labor of love, aimed toward elevating humanity to its highest potential. ~~Ashtora, 2008 http://ashtorspeaks.wordpress.com
Perhaps, Dr. Robert Jensen like Dr. Jim Rigby, Radical Forgiveness Coach, Carol Creel, and Anna Miller, founder of The Depression Project and author of “Madness. Mania. Miracles.” suspects more than most, what Love Is and what Love Is Not… For more on “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships,”visit: http://itsawonderfulife.wordpress.com.~~Ashtora
Can It Be All About Money and Power?: What Is “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships”?
August 26, 2008
Finding it deserving of his own personal Q&A, Dr. Robert Jensen, UT Journalism Professor and author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, will be on hand for Alamo Drafthouse Lamar’s Third Coast Film Night showing of this significant film, “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships” [52 minute documentary presented by Open Lens Media & The Media Education Foundation A film by Miguel Picker & Chyng Sun Associate Producer: Robert Wosnitzer The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships Coming to DVD Fall 2008 http://www.thepriceofpleasure.com http://www.mediaed.org]
As a journlist, Dr. Robert Jensen became an authority on the pornography industry, porn and its effects on the producers, participants, consumers and their relations. His comprehensive knowledge, insights, conclusions and candid, straight-forward delivery may bring startling revelations to those fortunate enough to read his book and attend any event in which Dr. Jensen presents. Though I’ve heard Dr. Jensen speak dozens of times, I’ve never failed to come away with a greater sense of self-respect and respect for the quality of man he represents. Priceless.
If you’re in the Austin, Texas area, take advantage of these opportunities.
If not, read Dr. Robert Jensen’s books~~each one, a labor of love aimed towards elevating humanity to its highest potential. ~~Ashtora, 2008 http://ashtoraspeaks.wordpress.comIn either case, make use of NOWAR’s website: http://www.nowar.org/
Visit http://ThirdCoastActivist.org for event listings and news links.
Wednesday, August 27, 7 p.m.
Third Coast Film Night at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
“The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships”
Followed by a Q&A with UT Journalism Professor Robert Jensen
The critics of pornography have observed that in recent years, there are two trends occurring simultaneously: on the one hand, pornography has become more and more mainstream and accepted; on the other hand, newer, harsher and more degrading treatments of women are constantly being developed and quickly gain popularity, so the average content has become more and more extreme. Why is this happening?
To answer this question, The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships investigates the three independent yet interconnected aspects of the pornography industry – production, content and consumption – in order to help the audience gain a holistic understanding. It focuses on this central question: how does pornography help shape our gender and sexual identities, and our relationships?
This film includes interviews of pornographers, porn performers, and scholars in psychology, media, economics and popular culture. Most importantly, men and women candidly discuss how their or their partners’ use of pornography has affected them. The film provides not only analysis that debunk the myths and stories about abuse and alienation, but also revelations of pleasure, desire and humanity. Moreover, the film examines pornography’s effects on the performers and audience beyond the liberal celebrations as well as the conservative / moral denunciations; it engages a nuanced discussion of desire and harm, choice and system constraint, liberty and responsibility.
The 52 minute documentary will be followed by a Q&A with UT Journalism Professor Robert Jensen, the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity.
Location: Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar The film and Q&A will be at the Alamo on South Lamar
Tickets – $8.50 general / $6.50 student, senior – are available at the door or online at http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=5624
This event is a benefit for Open Lens Media.
Wednesday, August 27, 8 p.m.
Documentary at MonkeyWrench Books: ”Live Nude Girls Unite!”
This first person documentary follows Julia Query, lesbian/stand-up comedian/peepshow-stripper, and daughter of a feminist activist, on her raucous journey to help organize the only union of strippers in the United States. Shot on a variety of formats, Live Nude Girls Unite! weaves backstage and dancing footage with labor organizing, street protests, stand-up comedy and comic-book style “animation” making an intelligent and dramatic cutting-edge film.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop.
Wednesday, September 11, 8 p.m.
“Gook: John McCain‘s Racism and Why It Matters” - a talk with author Irwin Tang
Irwin Tang will lead a discussion on his new book, Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters. The book offers a detailed history of Senator John McCain‘s racial bias, including his habit of using the racial slur “gook.” Tang links racism with warmongering and examines McCain’s consistent advocacy of shooting wars in foreign countries.
Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop.
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Economics USA: The Crumbling of an Empire~~Our Time Has Come
September 25, 2008
We’ve known wealth. We’ve known power. We’ve known comfort. We’ve known ease. We’ve lived the illusion. Living the illusion cost us more than we ever took the time to evaluate. It cost us more than -dollars and cents. Living in a super-inflated economy took its toll in relationships, in ethics, in priorities, in values and in character.
Many have warned us that our economy was on a collision course. Two of my dear friends, Dr. Robert Jensen and Dr. Jim Rigby have long been describing this unavoidable occurence, when no legislation Congress can forge will circumvent the inevitable. In Jensen’s book, Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, he writes encouragingly of Maintaining political, intellectual, and ethical hope in the heart of the world’s most powerful nation. Now that this Empire, this illusion can no longer be sustained, we the people have the enormous gift of being able to come together on solid ground~~claiming our humanity. We have the opportunities to once again create time for our families and our neighbors…to take turns lending a helping hand. We can use our two hands, our minds, our hearts, our backs to shoulder the labors ahead of us together. We can learn anew to live closer to the earth, use less, replace more…our time has come. To paraphrase the recent words of Dr. Jim Rigby,
Now, more than perhaps ever in our lifetimes, we can appreciate all of the genuine abundance that we truly live with. We can savor the breath that gives us life. We can cherish the life that surrounds and sustains us. Without a doubt, we will have less in that we no longer can delude ourselves or the world; yet, undeniably, we will have more. Each and every day will bring new riches that money and inflation cannot buy at any price.
I look forward to working with each and everyone of my neighbors, regardless of race, creed, or sexual orientation in life sustaining, community building endeavors.
Our time has come; the perfect time for relocating~~for moving from the penthouses of our heads into the rich wilderness of our hearts. This is the perfect time to live abundant lives of compassion, recognizing the worth of every creature, of every individual, of every nation. Now is the time to “beat our swords in plowshares,” to mine our vast resources of courage, strength and determination in order to live not the illusion, but a life worth tasting.
For more from this author, visit http://itsawonderfulife.wordpress.com and http://ashtoraspeaks.wordpress.com.
For more perspectives like this, write Dr. Jim Rigby at jrigby0000@aol.com, visit Carol Creel at www.lifeworks-marketing.com. You can also email Ashtora, izee4mee@hotmail.com.