Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Last Friday I heard that anti-porn author Gail Dines was going to appear on the ABC’s interactive program Q&A. As the public is invited to submit questions, I thought I’d add mine. It went something like: Gail Dines dismisses feminist porn by saying it’s not different enough from mainstream porn. What kind of sexually explicit material would be OK by her personal feminist standards? I signed it as “Louise Lush” Read More …
Over the weekend, Australia had an election. Now the people have spoken and their overwhelming response is: Meh. We have a hung parliament. Neither Labor or the Liberal/National coalition won enough seats to form government. This means the fate of the country lies with three country independents and a freshly minted Greens MP. Meanwhile, the Greens have gained control of the senate. This is all fantastic news. If you’ve been Read More …
This is an ad from the Australian Sex Party which parodies the conservative “Work Choices” campaign from a few years ago. It’s not often you get an electoral ad that makes a fairly direct reference to masturbation, even though it probably should happen a lot more often in political advertising. Yes, the Sex Party ARE serious but they know how to make us laugh.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you… Fanta Pants.” – Marieke Hardy It’s been a bit of a whirlwind 24 hours. I’ve got no work done at all because I’ve been glued to Twitter, news sites and the TV as the Australian political landscape shifted before my eyes. Australia now has its first female prime minister, Julia Gillard. She was not directly elected to this role; rather, she’s now in the Read More …
I’m a little late with this news: British porn film director Anna Span, now going by her real name of Anna Arrowsmith, is running for parliament at the upcoming British elections, due to be held in May. Anna is standing as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats party in her home electorate of Gravesend. It’s perhaps not surprising that the mainstream media have leapt on the story with a vengeance. Read More …
Good news: the folks at the Eros Association have decided to get serious and form a political party. They’re launching the Australian Sex Party at Sexpo in Melbourne on Thursday and are hoping to round up the 500 members required to make it officially recognised by the legal system. They’re aiming to put censorship onto the agenda, but they also want to talk about sex education, abortion, contraception, gender issues Read More …
I should be doing other work, but I just have to post, because today is – hopefully – a very important day. Today is federal election day in Australia and I’m warming the champagne in anticipation that today is finally the day we vote the bastards out. Fingers crossed. Of course, another lot of bastards will get in but they won’t be as awful, racist or conservative as this current Read More …