From The Ground Up

I’m feeling a little snowed under at the moment. I suspect that the blog is going to be a little neglected for the next few weeks. Here’s why: We are going to have to build the new member’s area of For The Girls from the ground up. In November 2009 when we hired the first company to do this, we hoped we could automate the build. We asked them to Read More …

I’ve Been Nominated For A Feminist Porn Award

I just realised that I haven’t actually blogged about the news: my short film Fucking Is The Only Prayer has been nominated for a 2011 Feminist Porn Award. I’m rather chuffed. I suspect it won’t win as it’s only short and there isn’t a short film category. But it’s nice to be listed. I submitted For The Girls to be considered for a website award but it didn’t make the Read More …

The Guardian Does Porn For Women

The Guardian likes to attract clicks by including articles about porn but often the articles are negative in tone and rely on the arguments of anti-porn feminists like Gail Dines. Thankfully they’ve taken a step in the right direction by offering a story on porn for women and including comments by Erika Lust, Anna Span and Petra Joy. Aside from talking about women’s porn like it’s a new thing, the Read More …

Fairy Tale Porn

Fairy tales, while seemingly innocent, are often rife with sexual imagery and metaphors. The big bad wolf could easily be seen as the corrupter of Little Red Riding Hood’s virginity, for example. For many of us, the fairy tales of our youth may be entangled with our first glimpses of the erotic. For girls, the promise of Prince Charming often lead to speculation about the details of the wedding night. Read More …

Homage to Burt and the Bearskin Rug

Rob, our sexy centerfold at For The Girls, was a good sport. We took some lovely photos of him reclining on a muppet-fur rug (these pics will appear in an upcoming update at FTG). Looking through them I developed the urge to do a bit of photoshopping. Thus, here he is in a similar pose to the classic Burt Reynolds centerfold photo from Cosmopolitan 1972. He’s not as hairy as Read More …

Penis Spines? No Thanks!

Here’s a fun fact for you to bring up next time you’re inebriated and want to raise a strange topic at a dinner party: men don’t have penis spines. That is to say, the penises of human males differ from our nearest genetic relatives, the chimpanzees, because there are no “tactile” spines or barbs on the end that induce female ovulation and clear out the sperm of other males. Chimps Read More …

Room 33 By Erika Lust

Room 33 Erika Lust from boolab on Vimeo. Here is Room 33, a new sexy movie by Erika Lust (as written about in this post from a few days ago). It just looks luscious. And what I really admire is the way Erika can tell her story with minimal dialogue or none at all; she’s really good at getting ideas and emotions across through framing, editing and good acting. That’s Read More …

Cock Colouring Books

Who said that colouring-in was only for kids? It seems that the folks from Big Book Alt Press wanted in on the action and thus they created the Big Coloring Book Of Cocks, the Big Coloring Book of Vaginas and the Big Coloring Book of Sex Positions. The Cock book offers “30 pages of illustrated cocks with games such as word search, connect the dots, and an ‘all about my Read More …

“Women Prefer Funny To Flawless”

The SMH is reporting a survey by soap company Dove which asked women what they found attractive in a man. The big winner is a good sense of humour: “Sixty five per cent of women surveyed said they are turned off by guys seeking physical perfection, with 86 per cent citing vanity as one of the biggest turn-offs in a man. “Although one in four men view a muscular tanned Read More …

Let’s Talk About Extreme Porn

The other day I saw an ad for a porn site that I found rather disturbing. It was a looped flash video ad that featured a couple having very rough sex. The woman was “fish hooked” (had a finger in her mouth, dragging her head back at a painful angle), a penis was rubbed roughly on her face, she was choked and slapped. She also didn’t seem to be enjoying Read More …

Am I Queer?

Am I queer? It’s probably a ridiculous question to which the answer is, simply, no. And yet I’ve been wanting to write about this since the Erotics conference 2 weeks ago because I found myself sitting there wondering if I was queer. Simply asking the question raises more questions about the concept of “queer” and how it’s applied. At the conference I was surrounded by a lot of people who Read More …