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Pornocracy: MindGeek and MatchGroup, The New Sex Multinationals

Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals (2017) is one of the better documentaries I've ever seen period let alone on pornography.   It's available for rent/purchase on YouTube and it is available for free on Kanopy .  Pornocracy opens with a man discussing the various types of performance-enhancing drugs that get injected into porn stars with  Ovidie, the director, who had worked in the pornography industry herself for 17 years : the  Caverject that gets injected into the penises of porn actors to keep them rigid for abnormally long amounts of time (19 hours), the  Pitocin (which is synthetic Oxycontin, oftentimes used to trigger labor and cervix dilation) and Lidocaine, a local anesthetic (numbing medication) which works by blocking nerve signals in your body. Lidocaine is used topically to reduce pain or discomfort caused by skin irritations such as sunburn, insect bites, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and minor cuts, scratches, or burns.  Howe...

The Temple of She: A Feminist's Thoughts on Shakti Kumari, the Mommy Myth, Femicide, Abortion, and The Sixth Extinction

Read a National Geographic article about kumari and shakti, kumari is a living godd ess and means virgin girl; shakti is female power.  Nepal literally worships little girls and has been doing so since the 10th century.  It's getting harder for them to do so of course, and the entire article is absolutely fascinating, I encourage you to find it, it's called Living Goddesses from the June 2015 edition. Sadly, a kumari stops being a living goddesses as soon as she bleeds, either experienced by their first menstruation or an errand cut. Kumari Shakti or the power of virginity is regarded as the highest power in Nepal I personally practice and advocate continuous cycle.  You can do this on birth control (in my case, NuvaRing).  The placebo period is completely unnecessary and was thought up by some idiot 1920's type minded gents that somehow figured women not having periods would make them hysterical. Now men having periods would make them hysterical but women not ha...