Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Posts about sex, particularly women’s sexual experiences
Cosmopolitan surveyed 4000 men and 4000 women about their porn watching habits. The results are badly presented but interesting enough. How women watch porn shows the female gaze in action. Read More …
Hollywood thinks cunnilingus scenes deserve “explicit” ratings, though violence and rape don’t receive the same censorship. Evan Rachel Wood protested this suppression of women’s sexuality on Twitter. Here’s a list of mainstream films that have cunnilingus. Read More …
A review of Garden of Desires: The Evolution of Women’s Sexual Fantasies. This book is arousing, fascinating and compelling. It reveals important truths about women’s sexuality. Read More …
Artist Sophia Wallace has an art project called Cliteracy where she wants to draw attention to society’s ignorance of the clitoris. The Clit Rodeo is one installation. Here’s some photos. Read More …
Emily Dubberley’s new book Garden of Desires explores women’s sexual fantasies, 40 years after Nancy Friday’s groundbreaking work My Secret Garden. Some things have changed. Read More …
ABC discovers that women like porn. Jezebel gets cross at generalisations and the SMH says that women watching porn shouldn’t be a story in the first place. Read More …
It’s been 20 years since “The Contest” episode of Seinfeld discussed masturbation. Here’s more great moments in the history of masturbation. Read More …
While I’m sure we can all agree with the post title as a general rule (except perhaps you literal skeptic types out there), I want to apply it specifically to childbirth. Because damn, a woman’s cunt is an amazing thing. I’m saying this having emerged from a fairly intense week of family business, namely the birth of my brand new nephew. I was privileged to be present at the birth Read More …
On Twitter today I came across an interesting discussion about the word “ladies” via The F Word UK (@thefworduk). Emma Dixon had been sent a message that said “Attention Ladies, come to our Xmas lunch.” Emma asked if there was any women who would prefer not be be addressed as “lady” or “ladies”. The replies showed that some women hate it, others don’t mind it. The same goes for “girls”. Read More …
Scientists at Rutger University in New Jersey have created a map of a woman’s brain during an orgasm. They monitored a woman who masturbated in a functional MRI machine and created a digital map of the results. It’s quite an impressive bit of work and may help better understand why some women can’t achieve orgasm. The Guardian reports that activity changes in 80 different sections of the brain during stimulation Read More …
In February I met Dr Clarissa Smith who told me about the massive research project into porn that she was undertaking with collegues Feona Attwood and Martin Barker. Not long after they put out the call for porn users to participate in their survey which aimed to look at porn use in a non-judgemental way. They received 5,490 responses to their questionaire and a heap of extended emails. They’re currently Read More …
I can’t wait to see this film. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy, Hysteria is a dramatisation of the true story behind the invention of the vibrator and it looks like a lot of fun. I read Rachel Maines’ book The Technology of Orgasm back in 1998 when it was released and I wrote a piece on it for Australian Women’s Forum (it’s now in the member’s area of For Read More …
A couple of videos have come out in the last week or so that celebrate women’s genitals. Or, to use their term, the vagina. Both of them are attempts at viral videos from companies that sell “feminine hygiene” products (that term always makes me cringe). The first one features a talking cat advocating the use of the word “Vaginal” as a substitute for “awesome”. The second one has a nice Read More …
There’s a logical fallacy called “cherry picking” which is essentially this: you come up with a hypothesis. You then seek out data to back your assertions. You ignore any contradictory evidence and only use the stuff that supports your theory. Then you write a book about it. Cue the articles in major newspapers and interviews on TV. Suddenly, your delightful theory is accepted uncritically as fact. Thus, we come to Read More …
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Rash of Penis Photos www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook It’s been in the news for weeks and I thought I’d finally weigh in on the whole Anthony Weiner penis photo drama. Not because of all the glorious jokes that can be made about dicks but because of the Read More …