Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
This weekend Amber Rhea’s Sex 2.0 conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia. It was attended by various blogging luminaries like Dacia and Rachel Kramer Bussell and was a general discussion of feminism, sexuality and the internet. It looked very cool and various posts are appearing about the event as I write. Thing is, though, I wasn’t there. Once again, living in Australia means that I miss out on all these Read More …
April 14 is Cake and Cunnilingus Day, now in its third year. Yes, I made it up. I decided to reject the stupid masculinist idea of “steak and a blowjob day” by creating my own silly girly holiday. Does it help the cause of feminism? I’m buggered if I know. Anyway, it’s two months after the gushy sentamentality of Valentine’s Day and it’s a good day to simply indulge in Read More …
Following last weekend’s Feminist Porn Awards, there’s been the inevitable debate about whether feminist porn can even exist. Violet Blue’s SFGate column discusses the idea and at the time of writing there are no less than 806 comments. I have only read the first 6… it’s too nice a day to even consider going through the rest. There’s also a high-falutin’ discussion at Finally Feminism 101. This one is interesting Read More …
I’m having a busy couple of days, so here’s a quickie post featuring a hot couple getting it on to tide you over.
The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, hosted by the BFI, featured a special selection of female-focused and produced erotica. Under the banner “Female Fantasies”, the festival screened a number of erotic shorts by female filmmakers, including Petra Joy. From festival website: A new wave of feminist pornographers explore authentic onscreen sexuality with humour, edge, and style. Celebrating bisexual and lesbian women’s fantasies, they are not afraid to cross genre Read More …
Good For Her’s 3rd Annual Feminist Porn Awards have been announced following a ceremony held in Toronto on Saturday night. The list of winners: Boundary Breaker of the Year Buck Angel Smutty Schoolteacher of the Year (Educational Title) Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to Oral Sex Part 1 Cunnilingus and Part 2 Fellatio | Tristan Taormino; Vivid Ed Hottest Dyke Film Crash Pad Series Volume 1 | Shine Louise Houston; Pink Read More …
I didn’t blog yesterday. That’s because I was doing something fabulous instead: swimming with a pod of dolphins at Bribie Island. We went there on a “reccie” just to check the place out. As we were heading home across the bridge we saw the pod of dolphins frolicking in the channel and decided to turn around, head along the shore and watch them. There were about five of them, including Read More …
OK. It’s Friday. I’m just throwing this video up here because it’s cute and funny.
No, that title doesn’t mean your usual girl-girl, long fingernail stuff. I’m talking about real life lesbians, making porn that reflects their sexuality. Today I stumbled on a rather extensive academic essay entitled The Politics Of Lesbian Pornography. The author looks at the contrast between anti-porn feminism and the work of lesbian filmmakers such as SIR and Fatale Video. The essay seems to date from about 2001. I skimmed through Read More …
I told myself I wasn’t going to write about the Porn for Women book anymore because I’m sick of feeding their first page Google ranking while my blog languishes in purgatory for this particular term. But I can’t help it. Today I found the Chronicle Books blog which has a number of posts by the authors of “that book.” One asks women to submit “fantasies” for future books. Readers have Read More …
It’s Tuesday. I’ve just finished watching Return of the King for the nth time and now my eyes are red from crying. No matter how hard I try, that film reduces me to a blubbering mess. Meanwhile, WordPress has released a new version, I’m very busy with all sorts of smut-creative activities and I’ve still got to start on my Script Frenzy script. In other news, Ms Naughty has made Read More …
Script Frenzy is a very cool thing and it officially starts tomorrow. Budding writers are supposed to register their intent and then knuckle down to produce a 100 page script by April 30. I’m registered and had every intention of doing it… and then the last week has just disappeared with other work. I’ve got the excellent Celtx software and a fantastic outline but I haven’t had time to flesh Read More …
Violet Blue’s SF column this week, Ugly Violet, and her subsequent blog post has really struck a chord with me. She writes about the way comment trolls dismiss women because of their appearance and the body image issues women have in our culture. This is a conversation we need to be having and one I considered writing about a while ago. I must admit, I never got around to doing Read More …
Every now and again I search Google news for the term “porn for women” just in case someone has mentioned women’s erotica in the news. It’s popping up rather heavily at the moment but, unfortunately, the subject isn’t about porn. The cause of all the fuss is that damn Porn For Women book which features clothed men doing housework, combined with captions like “That’s OK honey, I’ll do the dishes.” Read More …
I’ve got a lot of decent things to write about, but it’s late and I’m stuffed, so here’s a filler post. Quotes About Drinking Wine is bottled poetry. ~Robert Louis Stevenson Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo A hangover is the wrath of grapes. ~Author Unknown A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate Read More …