Storm Jameson Quotes
Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
Jameson, Storm. Parthian Words. Harvill Press, 1970.
He was referring to Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University, a Catholic school whose health plans did not cover birth control pills. The Heath advisory committees had concluded that birth control pills were a critical element of women’s health. Congress was debating a rule that would exempt religions from having to provide birth control as a part of their health insurance if it was against their beliefs. However, universities, hospitals, museums and civil activities run by churches were not exempt, Ms Fluke testified before Congress that her birth control pills cost her much money out of pocket. Many conservatives throughout the country opposed the requirement, some on religious conscience grounds and others like Limbaugh who opposed because they opposed birth control itself. So Limbaugh concluded that since with insurance paying for birth control for women, the women were getting paid to have sex. Therefore Ms. Fluke was a prostitute and a slut. There was a national outrage over Limbaugh’s statements and many conservatives, especially those running for office were put in an awkward position. They realized the inappropriate logic and use of language and the meanness that Limbaugh exhibited, but with few exceptions they were afraid that if they opposed him publicly, Limbaugh would retaliate on the airways and he was the major Republican spokesman at the time. Although not a politician, he was in many ways the leader of the party. However, this time his mean, twisted, venomous, attack had gone too far. It was not a politician he had attacked this time; just an innocent young student. A number of his sponsors dropped him.
When the Union Army had taken Richmond—the Capitol of the Confederacy—the Lieutenant had been invited to dinner at one of the Virginia plantations while slavery was still legal, and slaves served the dinner. The general (but erroneous) belief that Black males were “well hung” as compared with whites tended to make white observers notice the large size Negro penises when they saw them and often to perpetuate that as is the case with this quotation. It seems to be human nature to observe, notice and perpetuate instances of what one believes more often that that which contradicts our beliefs. In actuality Blacks as a groups have an average penis diameter that is very slightly less than whites and an average penis length that is longer than whites—by only one-tenth of an inch. See http://www.penissizes.org/average-penis-size-ethnicity-race-and-country
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson was an English journalist and author, known for her novels and reviews.
