The Sex Positive Journalism Awards

After yesterday’s post about that Abby Winters beat up, I thought I should post this. Porn and sex in general often get a bad wrap in the mainsteam media. An awful lot of news stories and articles feature an anti-porn and sex-negative slant that help to create a “bad vibe” when it comes to sex in general. The “Sexies” are new awards designed to reward fair and sex-positive journalism. Readers Read More …

Abby Winters, “Exploitation” and Beat Ups

On Monday the Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun ran a dodgy article about an unnamed Australian website. The article is long on self-righteous moralising but extremely light on for names. It asserts that the website is running photos of “teenagers”, that the models are exploited and that the websites charges money to remove photos if the models request it. It also gets very excited about the idea that the site Read More …

Retro Centerfolds

Oh. My. God. What else to say about a site featuring scans of Playgirl male centerfolds dating from the 70s through to 1995? It’s worth a look for the fashions alone. Like Mr July 1989, Benny Graham here. The stunning mullet and mo combination is topped by the thong that matches the animal-print couch. It’s art, I tell you, ART. If you want to see what Playgirl’s centerfolds look like Read More …

Not Enough Nude Men At The Erotica Expo

Zoe Margolis, the Girl With A One Track Mind, has written a piece for the Guardian about the recent Erotica sexuality expo held in London. She says that even though the event attracted record numbers of women, there were hardly any half-naked men on display. The lack of catering for the straight female audience was evident throughout: all the pole dancers were female; the porn stars signing DVDs were female; Read More …