Gloria Steinem: Notable feminist, journalist, organizer, lecturer, co-founder of Ms. Magazine, and activist against sexism, pornography, sex trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation and abuse
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Gloria Steinem is a journalist, activist, organizer, lecturer, author of numerous books, and one of the preeminent feminists of the 20th century. She has been speaking out against sexism since the 1960s and against pornography and other forms of sexual exploitation and abuse since the 1970s.
In the same way that AntiPornography.org is anti-censorship and differentiates between pornography and erotica, and is fighting only against pornography, the same is true for Gloria. She addresses the differences between erotica and pornography in her excellent, must-read chapter, "Erotica Vs. Pornography," in her important, best-selling and inspirational book, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions.
Gloria also co-founded the The Women's Media Center in 2005 along with Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan. Gloria is currently working on a book entitled "Road to the Heart: America As If Everyone Mattered," about her 40 years on the road as a feminist activist and organizer.
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Selected quotes by Gloria Steinem on pornography, sex trafficking and other issues.
Videos:
1) Gloria Steinem speaking out against the harms of pornography during a march on New York's Times Square by Women Against Pornographyin 1979.
2) Gloria interviewed for the television documentary "Sex: the Revolution" about going undercover as a Playboy Bunny working in a Playboy Club to do a story as a journalist in the 1960s.
3) Gloria on the Charlie Rose show with Tonya Flynt speaking out against the film "The People Versus Larry Flynt" and its false portrayal of "Hustler" magazine pornographer Larry Flynt as a champion of free speech and the First Amendment.
4) Gloria giving a talk to the Chicago Foundation for Women in which she addresses prostitution and trafficking and what is behind men's demand for them.
5) A one-minute biography of Gloria Steinem.
6) Gloria and Jane Fonda on The Colbert Report TV show in 2006 talking about the importance of media for women.
7) Gloria Steinem on the benefits of engaging in Outrageous Acts for Simple Justice and why doing so is important.
An audio interview from OnPointRadio.org of Gloria Steinem speaking out against human trafficking and sexual slavery.
"The Real Linda Lovelace" - An essay by Gloria Steinem on the abuse of Linda Boreman, (a.k.a. Linda Lovelace), the infamous pornography performer who was forced at gunpoint to participate in the filming of "Deep Throat." The essay is posted at the website for the Coalition for Action on Sexism and True Equality. (Caste)
"Gloria Steinem Speaks Out on Violent Porn" - An editorial report at Wise Women's Webciting Gloria Steinem's views on violent pornography and racism in pornography from her talk at the 1997 conference "Beyond Racism," hosted by the Southern Education Foundation.
"Bosom Foes Together Again" - New York Times article from 1998 on Gloria Steinem and Hugh Hefner both being inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Society of Magazine Editors at the same event. Includes comments by each of them about the other, as well as about feminism and Playboy.
"What Playboy Doesn't Know about Women Could Fill a Book" - McCall's Magazine 1970 interview of Hugh Hefner by Gloria Steinem.
“Pornography – Not Sex But the Obscene Use of Power” -- Ms. Magazine article August 1977 by Gloria Steinem.
"Erotica vs. Pornography: What's the Difference?" -- Sunday Woman article, circa November 1978 by Gloria Steinem.
“Erotica and Pornography – A Clear and Present Difference” -- Ms. Magazine article November 1978 by Gloria Steinem.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions - Contains a chapter about the differences between pornography and erotica, "Erotica Vs. Pornography," a chapter about Gloria's experiences going undercover to write a story being a Playboy bunny in a Playboy Club, "I Was a Playboy Bunny," and a chapter about the true story of abuse of "Deep Throat" pornography actress Linda Lovelace, (real name Linda Marciano, née Boreman), "The Real Linda Lovelace."
"(Pornography) has nothing to do with sex, with love, with erotica. It is violence. And in most of the cases of rapists and child abusers who have been questioned, they have said very clearly that they were practicing what they had seen demonstrated in pornography."
Gloria Steinem, Television Interview during March on Times Square by Women Against Pornography, 1979
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VIDEO: Gloria Steinem interviewed about the harms of pornography during a march on Times Square by the group Women Against Pornography, New York City, 1979
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"There are times when a woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
Gloria Steinem to Hugh Hefner, while interviewing him in 1970
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VIDEO:Gloria interviewed for the television documentary "Sex: the Revolution" about going undercover as a Playboy Bunny working in a Playboy Club to do a story as a journalist in the 1960s.
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""The People vs. Larry Flynt" claims that the creator of Hustler magazine is a champion of the First Amendment, deserving our respect. That isn't true. Let's be clear: a pornographer is not a hero, no more than a publisher of Ku Klux Klan books or a Nazi on the Internet."
Article by Gloria Steinem, New York Times Op-Ed, 1997
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MUST WATCH VIDEO: Gloria Steinem and Tonya Flynt Vega on the Charlie Rose show discussing the film "The People vs. Larry Flynt" and it's false portrayal of Larry Flynt as a champion of free speech and the First Amendment, January 8, 1997(Their segment begins at 44:35)
Description from the Charlie Rose show: "Gloria Steinem and pornographer Larry Flynt's daughter, Tonya Flynt Vega, voice their opposition to the film, "The People vs. Larry Flynt". Gloria Steinem discusses how the film wrongly portrays the publisher of "Hustler" magazine Flynt as a first amendment crusader rather than as an oppressor of women, and Tonya Flynt Vega clarifies that many of the portrayals in the film are historically inaccurate."
Their segment begins at approximately 44:35 in the video. Click on the bottom time bar 3/4 of the way across to find it.Also Charlie Rose interviews Larry Flynt from 28:13 to 44:34.
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"Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master."
"Trafficking in people is bigger than it's ever been. Slavery is bigger now than it was in the 1800s, and more profitable. The estimated profits from it are bigger than that from the illegal arms trade. Because of globalization, the Internet, the increased inequity between nations, and between rich and poor, ease of travel -- all of those things have made slavery much easier, more profitable, and much more prevalent."
Gloria Steinem, "Activists Urge New York State to Pass Anti-Human Trafficking Law," Voice of America, 2007
AUDIO INTERVIEW: Gloria Steinem interviewed on human trafficking, sex trafficking and sex slavery by Tom Ashbrook of OnPointRadio.org.
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Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 11:00 AM EDT
"Political activist and women’s movement icon Gloria Steinem came out swinging decades ago as an irresistible voice for feminism and freedom as a new generation defined it.
She was a beauty and a battler. Founded Ms. Magazine when that was an earthquake in publishing. Stood up again and again for women’s rights, women’s equality, women’s freedom.
Gloria Steinem still does all that, but at 72, she’s widened her focus, too. Her latest cause: 21st century slavery and human trafficking. There’s a lot of it. A shocking, half-hidden world of debt-bondage and sex slavery and outright servitude. And Steinem is on it."
-- Tom Ashbrook
This Hour, On Point: Gloria Steinem on freedom and slavery in the 21st century.
Guests: Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. Co-founder of Ms. Magazine, and author of Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, and Marilyn: Norma Jean. She has written the foreward to a new book: Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery,
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Note: In the interview above Gloria talks about and recommends the excellent award-winning 2007 dramatic film about sex trafficking called Trade, starring Academy award winner Kevin Kline. The trailer for this film can be viewed at YouTube. Click here. It can be purchased at Amazon.com. Please click here. It can also be downloaded at Amazon.com to be viewed online. Please click here. For more film clips and information, as well as a list of organizations you can get involved with if you want to fight against sex trafficking, please also visit the official site for Trade. Click here.
VIDEO: Gloria Steinem at Chicago Foundation for Women: 4 of 4
From 3:27 on in the below video Gloria discusses how prostitution and sex trafficking harms exist in a culture in direct proportion to whatever degree toxic and violent masculinity exists.
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"Pornography is a marketing device for sex trafficking: It normalizes degradation and violence as acceptable and even inevitable parts of sex, and uses the bodies of real women and children as objects. The difference between pornography and erotica is clear in the roots of the words themselves -- porne means females slaves, eros means love -- so pornography, like rape, is about violence and domination, not sex. Millions of lives depend on our ability to separate pornography from erotica, and to disentangle violence from sexuality."
Gloria Steinem, 2006
For more information on how pornography fuel sex trafficking, including videos and a documentary that address this issue, please see our Pornography and Sex Trafficking Connection page. Please click here.
"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."
Gloria Steinem
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VIDEO: Gloria Steinem on the benefits of engaging in Outrageous Acts for Simple Justice and why doing so on a regular basis is very important.
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"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."
Gloria Steinem
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Shared Hope International, "DEMAND: A Comparative Examination of Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States"
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Shared Hope International specifically focuses on fighting the demand for commercial sexual exploitaiton, including addressing pornography as a very significant demand factor for sex trafficking.
"Pornography is a marketing device for sex trafficking: It normalizes degradation and violence as acceptable and even inevitable parts of sex, and uses the bodies of real women and children as objects. The difference between pornography and erotica is clear in the roots of the words themselves -- porne means females slaves, eros means love -- so pornography, like rape, is about violence and domination, not sex. Millions of lives depend on our ability to separate pornography from erotica, and to disentangle violence from sexuality."
Gloria Steinem, 2006
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