Porn For Women Retrospective 2015

This is the 10th roundup of porn for women news and views. A look at what happened in the world of women’s erotica and feminist porn in 2015, with info on news items, events, awards, new films and books and censorship. Read More …

Porn For Women Retrospective 2014

2014 marks the tenth anniversary of the Ms Naughty Porn for Women Blog and the ninth anniversary of this retrospective. And you know, I’m not sure the retrospective is needed anymore, especially since the topics have expanded beyond the old idea of “porn for women” and now include feminist porn, queer porn and censorship. Still, habits are hard to break and there has actually been a lot to report on Read More …

Porn For Women Retrospective 2013

2013 marks my 13th year in porn and this is the 8th yearly retrospective about porn for women. Last year I noted the term wasn’t used as much as “feminist porn”. This year has seen multiple denunciations of the phrase in the media and industry. Perhaps this is indicative of an evolving porn industry and a changing audience, although Google searches for “porn for women” remain prevalent. Will this be Read More …

Porn Does Not Cause Rape

For years, anti-porn activists have campaigned against porn on the basis that it increases acts of violence against women. In essence, they say that porn causes rape. Today I thought I might sit down and compile a few resources that refute that claim. Because as far as I’m aware, there is still no reliable evidence to suggest that watching pornography induces men to rape. I think the biggest piece of Read More …

Porn Research: Younger Women More Likely To Use Porn

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 …

Beware These Skewed Statistics About Porn “Addiction”

Gail Dines is doing the rounds and she’s back in Australia promoting censorship of porn, saying that “there is no room for porn in a just society.” The response to that is a whole other blog post (although I have 2 comments on that story). Today Joel Tozer, a freelance writer, offers his reply to Dines’ piece here. And while it’s mostly OK, I’ve got a problem with his basic Read More …