The mainstream media has featured a number of articles about women and porn recently, most still breathlessly amazed that women enjoy porn.
The Telegraph (UK) featured a short piece on the large number of women present at the Berlin Porn Film festival. It also discusses the “PorYes” awards created by Laura Merritt.
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The SMH has reprinted the article today with comments. I’m still waiting for mine to be moderated.
Meanwhile the Fox “Sexpert” Yvonne Fulbright has offered her take one women and porn, disputing the figures about how many women actually watch porn. She then goes on to make lots of generalised statements about “what women want.” Unfortunately the column ends by assuming that only men are reading it – the second last sentence says “At the end of the day, the success of your quest may not be your movie of choice, but getting her to explore different forms of pleasuring in general.”
In other bad press, Kate Harding’s Salon argument that porn doesn’t empower women has irked me in a number of ways, the main one being her use of the term “actual feminist” to describe those who think porn oppresses (as opposed to all of us confused pretendy-feminists who might hold a differing opinion). She is happy to assume all porn is a monolithic bastion of male pleasure to further her point. The article doesn’t do much for creating a respectful or useful atmosphere for discussing various problems posed by pornography.
I wasn’t going to mention it but there’s quite the frenzy about Sarah Palin’s almost-son-in-law Levi Johnston appearing in Playgirl, not quite nude. Good PR for Playgirl but I’m not sure I really want to see that guy in the buff. Because crazed fundamentalist Republican teenage fathers really aren’t my bag, baby.
Lastly, there’s a great interview with Tristan Taormino at Alibi.com along with the schedule of the (just finished) Pornutopia film festival in Alburquerque. It icnludes this interesting quote:
There’s no pat way to make porn appeal to women, Taormino adds. “The first thing you have to do is abandon all hope that you’ll be able to speak to all women,” she says. “I’ve spoken to thousands of women about what they want to see, what kinds of porn they like, what kinds of porn they don’t like, and there is no single female viewer.
Pic is from Gawker.
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