Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
So while I’ve been off enjoying a break and then enduring flooding, anti-porn author Gail Dines has continued to wave her promotional flag, heavy as it is with assumptions and untruths. Unfortunately The Guardian likes to give her lots of space to do this. Her latest salvo was from the AVN expo in Las Vegas. Aside from her usual generalisations, she offered this particuarlly offensive paragraph: One of the seminars Read More …
And here’s my favourite: Muscle Bound, with a fabulous introduction by Marcel Wave. A Twitter conversation has made me revisit some of the sexy Hot Gossip dance clips on Youtube, so I thought I’d post a couple here. Hot Gossip were a dance troupe in the 70s and 80s who became famous via the Kenny Everett Video Show. They were also incredibly RUDE. At least, that’s what I thought when Read More …
It keeps popping up on TV talk shows and is used as a debate silencer by right-wing pundits. Religious groups use it to put pressure on politicians to create greater censorship. It’s the term “sexualisation of children” and I suspect that it’s bullshit. I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on this for a while but today I’ve found that Australian researcher Catherine Lumby has pretty much summed things Read More …
A couple of years ago I expressed disappointment that Naomi Wolf had come out and declared “modesty” in the form of religious veiling to be feminist. Before that I was sick of her endlessly recycled article on porn. Now she’s touring Australia and is once again talking porn, this time in an interview in the Sydney Morning Herald. I waded in, begrudgingly and emerged with mixed feelings about what she Read More …
Monday, April 26 was the first official Boobquake This strangely viral event was first suggested by atheist feminist Jennifer McCreight on her blog Blag Hag. Jen’s suggestion was inspired by the nonsense spouted by an Islamic cleric suggesting that women’s immodesty caused earthquakes. Her original blog post reads: This little bit of supernatural thinking has been floating around the blogosphere today: “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead Read More …
Bam. Two negative, almost hateful diatribes against female-focused erotic fiction books in as many days. Instead of being condemned as a cheapjack book slut pandering to male fantasies, you will be profiled in the serious press, with a photograph of you dressed demurely, and women will not be ashamed to be seen reading your book on the Tube. Feminist websites will praise you for “provoking debate in intellectual circles” and Read More …
Obsessing about my place in Google once again I found a rather long winded feminist essay about women’s porn, entitled: Rape Culture: Renegotiating Sexual Subjectivity on Porn Sites for Women. The piece takes a rather large philosophical stick to Sssh.com, which is an adult site for women that’s been around for roughly the same time as For The Girls. It does this in an attempt to make a general point Read More …
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Nando’s pole dancing mother ad. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s been the subjects of numerous complaints to the Australian Advertising Standards Bureau. I’m pleased to say that they’ve given the ad the thumbs up. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: The board of the Advertising Standards Bureau agreed, ruling that pole dancing was ” … a popular form of exercise” and “was not incompatible with Read More …
An article by Martha Irvine of AP has popped up in newspapers everywhere in the last couple of days. The article is discussing the sexualization of popular culture, in particular the influence of porn, and it’s main focus is the behaviour of young women. Many agree that the trend has had a particularly strong influence on young women — in some cases, taking shape as an unapologetic (my italics) embracing Read More …
CAKE is in the firing line again. This time it’s an opinion piece in Elle magazine by Virginia Vitzthum, a writer whose main interest is the online dating scene. Ostensibly the piece starts out like a feature, but it quickly becomes a soapbox for Vtizthum’s own views on feminism, and why she doesn’t think CAKE measures up. As a piece of journalism, I think it makes a good blog rant. Read More …
The biggest news in the blogosphere at present is the outing of the Girl With A One Track Mind. The Girl has just had her book published and had expressed concern about losing her anonymity. The Times has tracked her down and published her name. This has meant that The Girl has had to out herself to her family and friends. The whole situation reminds me of Nikki Gemmell and Read More …
No one has the right to tell you how to fuck, according to Rachel Kramer Bussell in her latest Lusty Lady column at The Village Voice. Arguing against those feminist “scolds” Ariel Levy and Pamela Paul, Rachel makes the point that enjoying sex – in any form – does not constitute a betrayal of feminist ideals. Here’s a few paragraphs: There’s a world of difference between being branded a sex Read More …
Another “porn for girls” magazine has popped up, this time in Germany. Gluck Magazine has just released it’s third issue, chock full of thin indie boys posing nude on their beds. The mag is run by two women, Nicole Rudiger and Elke Kuhlen and has sold out of its first two issues. The creators say their intent in creating the magazine was not feminist. “Our audience – indie or not Read More …
Seems I’ve failed the sisterhood again – in Spanish, no less. Today I got a pingback from a Spanish blog called Girls Who Like Porno, commenting on this Erika Lust post. Judging from the garbled Babelfish translation, the post is not complimentary. I had a look at their “about porno” page which features an English translation of their philosophy: “[We are] Girls who don’t like some kind of porno, a Read More …
A little over two weeks ago I was quoting The Hite Report on this blog and musing about how important that piece of research was to the feminist movement and women’s sexuality. Now the Australian has an interview with Shere Hite and I’m disappointed to say that she seems to have become a little conservative in her outlook. The article implies that she supports the US Republicans via an endorsement Read More …