Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Last Wednesday (11th April) I attended Tristan Taormino’s presentation at Pleasure Salon Melbourne where she talked about her life and experiences as a feminist pornographer. The event was amazingly well attended, with around 140 people packing into a sumptuous ex-nightclub in Brunswick. I was thrilled to catch up with old porny friends and to meet new ones as well. The vibe was very friendly, relaxed and rather excitable. It felt Read More …
We can sometimes feel a little isolated here at the Arse End Of The World. So often exciting things happen in the US, UK or Europe and we’re always a bit behind the times, like the slightly-embarrassing younger sister who tags along on your adventures even though she’s unfashionably dressed and makes tactless comments during Important Grownup Conversations that don’t concern her. We try to be cool in our own Read More …
Last month I reviewed Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide To Female Orgasms for For The Girls and I’m overdue to talk about it here. Put simply, I loved it. It’s the latest in Tristan’s Expert Guide series in which she presents sex education accompanied by scenes of hot sex. The important thing is, the sex isn’t your usual porny stuff. Instead, the lovely porn stars demonstrate how to have good sex, Read More …
The Examiner reports that a conservative “family” group operating on the campus of Princeton University has created a petition protesting against a planned lecture by Tristan Taormino on feminist porn. Tristan is due to speak tomorrow at the campus. Her presentation is called “My Life As a Feminist Pornographer” and will feature clips from her films. According to the Examiner, The Anscombe Society is a student organization at Princeton University Read More …
This week’s movie review at For The Girls is of Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex. When it first arrived in my mailbox I must admit to feeling very nervous about watching it. Rough Sex is not exactly my bag, baby. In the end, though, I appreciated it for what it was: a step in the right direction. Tristan has worked her sex-positive magic on a very prickly topic and turned spitting Read More …
The 54 page list of AVN Awards Nominations has been released and yes, I wasted too much of my precious time scrolling through it this afternoon. There isn’t much to report really; AVN has once again nominated the standard selection of big-name porn movies and the same old stars as part of the industry’s yearly orgy of self-congratulation. Innovation or new ideas don’t really get much of a look in Read More …
Thanks to a lovely review package chock-full of DVDs, I’m deep in the world of Tristan Taormino at the moment, as you may have guessed from my various posts. I’m having a great time watching the vids (which doesn’t happen that often, I have to say) and I’m very much admiring her philosophy too. And I’m not alone. Over at Sex In The Public Square they’ve got a great interview Read More …
This month I reviewed Tristan Taormino’s film Chemistry for For The Girls. We’re also featuring an interview with Tristan in our next update which is well worth checking out. Tristan is a sex-positive feminist film maker who I’ve long admired. If you haven’t heard of her before, visit her site Pucker Up. The idea behind Chemistry is to put 7 porn stars in a house for 36 hours and then Read More …