WebWhores Should organize a "Bleed-In"

Starbucks is not the only place that has discriminated against breastfeeding mothers, but there's a movement across the country to protest Starbucks' policy (or non-policy) against publicly breasfeeding in their coffee joints. Women are organizing "nurse-ins", where they descend en masse onto Starbucks coffee houses, tits and kids in hands, and bare their milk-making organs.

Inspired by the story of breastfeeding mothers, I thought . . . why can't pornographers and webwhores do the same thing to protest the banks, the credit card companies, and the processors who think menstruation is too "obscene" to be depicted sexually? What if we organized a bleed-in?

Picture it, if every porn site and every magazine exhibited a photo set including a menstruating woman . . . what would happen? Would the banks and credit card companies just stop taking money from porn altogether? Or would they have to change their policies?

Or. Would it be just the excuse neocons and dumbasses could jump on to lambast porn as a gross and ungodly perversion of nature, and throw us all into jail? Lord only knows they've imprisoned people for lesser offenses . . .

In spite of popular misconceptions, the porn industry is NOT the huge money-maker everyone imagines. Credit card companies wouldn't cry over the missed revenue, because it's really a very insignificant percentage of transactions, while being a disproportionately high percentage of their chargebacks, since our society encourages people to think of any type of sex-for-money, even if it's paying for months of access to digital images and video, as wrong and a cheat. As long as society paints sex workers as criminals and pornographers as extortionist scum, customers will continue to think we don't "deserve" payment for our work. Whether that results in a customer telling his bank he shouldn't have to pay for the porn he jacked off to, or a john assaulting or killing a whore . . . it really boils down to the same sickness and stupidity. But I digress.

My POINT is, a bleed-in might not be as successful as a nurse-in. The difference is that the general public, while they may be uncomfortable with naked boobies, STILL supports breeding and (the idea of) motherhood and aren't about to go one step further and say "mothers are disgusting -- I *told* you we should get rid of them!" On the other hand, the general public is not only uncomfortable with bloody pussy . . . they also allow themselves to be publicly represented by conservatives as vehemently opposed to porn. A vocal bunch of puritanical fucktards would like nothing better than for us to add fuel to their hellfire and brimstone bonfire, their damnation dance around graphic depictions of sex, by publicizing taboo images of bloody cunts. But in both cases? The championing of "motherhood" while being disgusted with mothers' bodies AND the disgust with our natural cycles of messiness? It boils down to the same misogynistic bullshit.

Furthermore, many (not all, but many) pornographers (especially web"masters" in the internet porn industry) are stupid men who fear the pussy (and women) themselves, and I wouldn't count on any kind of solidarity from that crew of dumb fucks. Still, a bleed-in is an interesting idea . . .