Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Attack of the Phthalates. It’s a great graphic. The image is from an article questioning the Greenpeace study about phthalates in sex toys. The article is in AVN Novelty Business magazine, a journal for sex toy retailers, so I’m not sure it can be said to be unbiased. Still, if you want an alternative viewpoint to the idea that jelly sex toys are toxic, there it is. Via Shevibe. Edit… Read More …
I had things to do this morning. Instead, I wasted time mucking about on MySpace, doing that thing where you jump from a friend to their friend to their friends… and hitting “add to friends.” Anyway, thanks to this meandering I found an online magazine called SheVibe. This site looks gorgeous and it has some interesting erotic content and articles. I’m always pleased to see another contribution to the women’s Read More …
I feel somehow honour bound to include this photo in my blog today. It’s from this page at NYMag, which is discussing a new book about marketing horror movies. The photo is by Tim Palen and is called Eli Roth has the biggest dick in Hollywood. The dick in question is, of course, prosthetic, and it was created by the same effects studio that did the Narnia movie. I feel Read More …
Here’s some photos from the 2007 Feminist Porn Awards held in Toronto on June 1. Anna Span receives her award for Indie Porn Pioneer. Feminist porn awards organiser Chanelle Gallant poses with special guest Anna Span. Simone Valentino, star of Afrodite Superstar and winner of Best New Star award. All the award winners are in this post.
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 …
Good For Her’s Feminist Porn Awards are over for another year. 350 attended the ceremony and party, which featured guests Anna Span, Simone Valentino, Peggy Comstock and Shine Louise Houston. “We came up with the idea for the Feminist Porn Awards because people don’t know they have a choice when it comes to porn,” said Chanelle Gallant, manager of Good for Her and the event’s organizer. “Yes, there’s a lot Read More …
Just a quickie – the lovely Gwen Masters is having her own short story contest. Each story needs to be short and steamy, and it has to use a prescribed first paragraph about hurtling along a road in a very fast car. Gwen won last years FTG erotic fiction contest and is a columnist and regular contributor to For The Girls. And don’t forget to check out our own contest Read More …
“We knew more about each other than most of our friends knew about us.” This is a quote from Naked On The Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing In On Internet Sexploration. It’s by a sex blogger, talking about how she cultivated friendships with other women online. As I flicked through Audacia Ray’s new book, the statement rang true for me, because on almost every page I encountered names that I Read More …
To celebrate our 4th birthday, For The Girls (FTG) is conducting our third erotic fiction competition. Our aim is to uncover more great examples of sexy writing created expressly for women. This year’s theme is discovery. It’s a broad theme that can encompass exploration, experimentation, invention, realisation, breaking new ground, and uncovering secrets. The competition will run throughout June and July and is open to FTG members as well as Read More …
On June 1, 2003 my partner Jane and I launched For The Girls, an erotic site for straight women like ourselves. We pooled together all the good dirty pics and movies we could find, I added a bunch of my articles and stories, and off we went. Our first tour was fairly crappy, and our original credit card processor declared bankruptcy and ran off with all the money a month Read More …