Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Another day, another book, another news item and survey that says that women like porn. A book called The Sex Lives of Australian Women says that 1 in 4 Aussie chicks will look at porn at least once a month. The book is based on a survey of 2000 self-selected internet participants. Naturally, I’m not surprised at this 1-in-4 statistic, which seems to be the similar to the 27-30% figure Read More …
Writers! Please! This is a call for more submissions to For The Girls – both to our regular erotic fiction and Wicked Ways sections and also our erotic story contest. I realise that it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere and that you guys are probably more interesting in BBQs and swimming and not doing a damned thing, but please, please, can you spare a few thousand words of steamy, arousing, Read More …
I just have to blog about this news story because I find it fascinating. The New York Times has a piece about the sworn virgins of Albania. These are women who took an oath of virginity and took on the role of male head of the family when all their men died. For centuries, in the closed-off and conservative society of rural northern Albania, swapping genders was considered a practical Read More …
Just a quick post. Amber Rhea has hosted the latest Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy with a fab post here. It’s chock a blog (yes, that was a typo but I like it so I’ll leave it) full of great posts about the intersection of sex and feminism. And yes, I’m listed in there too. If you’re after some well written, thought-provoking reading about sex, check it out.
A man in Western Australia has been arrested for receiving porn movies through the mail from overseas. His house was raided by customs officials who seized more than 100 DVDs and he is expected to be charged with breaching importation regulations for “pornography and objectionable material”, listed thus: Includes computer games, computer generated images, films, interactive games and publications that describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, Read More …
Petra Joy reports on her blog that her latest film Feeling It is up for two major awards at this year’s International Erotic Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (FICEB). The first nomination is for Best Film and the second is for Best Director. She’s up against heavyweights from the adult industry including films from Vivid and Evil Angel. It’s quite an achievement for an indie director and it’s also a Read More …
These images are from Wordle, a site that analyses text to see which words are used most often. The first image is made up of my del.icio.us tags. The second one is the result of taking all the posts on the index page (back to 19 May) and seeing what I talked about the most. I guess there’s not many surprises here.
An article in the New York Times and other media sources today cites new research that suggests straight women aren’t necessarily turned on by naked men. The study, by Meredith Chivers from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto, measured the genital responses of women to various images. It found that women were often more turned on by other women, although the researchers concluded that Read More …
If you’re not already familiar with them, this is from the BBC comedy series The Goodies. Pretty much every Australian kid who grew up in the 70s and 80s watched these guys at 6pm on weeknights on the ABC. They had a fairly large influence on my sense of humour. This sketch was part of an episode where they lampooned Mary Whitehouse, the conservative nutjob who did her best to Read More …
Obsessing about my place in Google once again I found a rather long winded feminist essay about women’s porn, entitled: Rape Culture: Renegotiating Sexual Subjectivity on Porn Sites for Women. The piece takes a rather large philosophical stick to Sssh.com, which is an adult site for women that’s been around for roughly the same time as For The Girls. It does this in an attempt to make a general point Read More …
It’s Black Friday so I thought I’d post a small pic of a man with a big dick. Subtle, understated. You may have noticed I haven’t posted much this week. Been busy with friends and relatives visiting and I’m also fighting off a huge wave of apathy. I just can’t seem to feel motivated about anything this week. Winter has set in and I just want to hibernate. Next week Read More …
A while ago I made a little site called ExExExChurch which is my response to the way some religious groups are fixated on the idea of “porn addiction.” The name is a play on one of the worst culprits, XXXChurch, a insistent rabble of lunatics who believe that masturbation is a sin. Anyway, via Fleshbot I found this news story of another bunch of self-righteous busybodies who are filming the Read More …
June is a big month for milestones, it seems. Today marks the fourth anniversary of when I started the Ms Naughty blog. Back then I was using a very simple script and I wasn’t obsessive about writing everyday, but it was a good start. Four years of writing around five posts a week is a big job. Blogging can really suck up your time, and your life. But it’s a Read More …
I fondly remember the genuine quirkiness of the first episode of Malcolm In The Middle, mainly because of the opening scene when Malcolm’s mother Lois answers the door topless. Caroline: I’m here because I think there is a tremendous opportunity for Malcolm. Could you maybe put a top on? Lois: They’re just boobs, lady. You see ’em in the mirror every morning, and I’m sure yours are a lot nicer Read More …
A couple of years ago Anna Brownfield made waves when her film The Money Shot won numerous awards at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. When the ABC show Mondo Thingo decided to do a piece on “chick porn” they interviewed Anna as the local representative of the porn for women movement.* Now Anna is about to release her first full-on porn film called The Band. Set in the grungy Melbourne Read More …