Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
In the wake of the 2007 AVN awards, I can’t help but feel there should be an adult version of the Golden Raspberries. A ceremony that acknowledges the worst the industry has to offer. Categories for awards could include: Most ridiculous boob job Most botoxed lips Worst acting Most cringeworthy piece of dialogue Fakest moans (subcategories: while giving blowjob, most monotonous) Stomach churning sexual act of the year Biggest hair Read More …
The 2007 AVN Awards have been announced, and it pretty much looks like more of the same. Manhunters, a feature from Wicked Pictures, was named Best Film. It’s by Brad Armstrong, with a label of “action-erotica”, and sounds kind of like an adult version of Charlie’s Angels. I have to say, I’m not in any hurry to watch it. There were also a score of other awards for every kind Read More …
I need to make up an award, I think. It should be called the Women’s Gratitude Award for the Actor Who Works Hardest To Get His Kit Off In Films. And naturally it should be awarded to Ewan McGregor. In the past, Ewan has worked tirelessly throughout his entire career to ensure that he appears nude at some point in his films. It’s been something of a mission for him: Read More …
This article looks at the growth in adult programming on cable television, particularly in the area of video on demand (VOD). They say that VOD has shaken up the previously stable world of adult cable TV and created more competition. A few paragraphs: Newer players are hoping to capitalize on the fractured competitive landscape. Among them are two services aimed at women, Inpulse TV and 2 Hearts Entertainment, along with Read More …
Today I received a press release from Candida Royalle about what she’s up to. She’s currently attending AVN’s Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, promoting her latest film Under The Covers and her new Natural Contours vibrator, the “Ideal.” She’s also giving a seminar today (12th) on women’s issues in the adult marketplace. The release also had some more information about her Femme Chocolat line of ethnic women’s films: Another Read More …
CAKE is in the firing line again. This time it’s an opinion piece in Elle magazine by Virginia Vitzthum, a writer whose main interest is the online dating scene. Ostensibly the piece starts out like a feature, but it quickly becomes a soapbox for Vtizthum’s own views on feminism, and why she doesn’t think CAKE measures up. As a piece of journalism, I think it makes a good blog rant. Read More …
So, about six months ago I thought I’d better check out this MySpace thing. I created a Ms Naughty profile, added a pic, a quick intro and a couple of links. And then I ignored it. The fact is, I have absolutely no idea what happens next. I’m not really sure of the point of MySpace. I can see that it’s a way for people without HTML skills to have Read More …
Violet Blue has posted her call for submissions to the 2008 edition of Best Women’s Erotica. She’s looking for “fictional stories that seek to push the boundaries of female sexuality, present realistic fantasies and situations, and break taboos.” The guidelines can also be found here at the Erotica Readers Association. The Best Women’s Erotica series is published by Cleis Press, a small, independent publishing house that mainly puts out erotic Read More …
Our feature article at For The Girls this month is about female sex bloggers. I had a really interesting time talking to numerous bloggers for the article – with extra thanks to Always Aroused Girl and Audacia Ray. I am not a sex blogger in the standard sense of the word. While my blog is about sex and porn, it’s not about me. I don’t often write about my private Read More …
Suddenly it seems as though sex blogging awards are everywhere! Nominations for the 2007 Bloggies close today (10th January). Nominations for the Dirty Spoke Sex Blog of the Year awards close on the 15th January. A site called KBCafe currently has voting for best sex blog among others, from a huge selection of 2. I found this “best sex blogs” page from a site called the Best of Blogs awards, Read More …
Thanks to Crikey.com for publishing this story that reveals Saddam Hussein’s gruesome hanging video would have got an R rating in Australia, whereas sexually explicit movies “without artistic merit” get an X rating and bans. The Eros Association decries the whole situation as ridiculous, especially in light of their failed attempt to have Viva Erotica passed as an R rated film. Eros’ Fiona Patten says: “The CRB is basically saying Read More …
Thanks to Chanelle from Good For Her, I now know of a number of new releases of authentic lesbian porn. Pink and White Productions have released a follow up to The Crash Pad called Superfreak. According to the promo, “Superfreak is a frisky romp through an all girl party with lots of hot semi-piublic sex, squirting and three-ways.” If you’re singing Superfreak in your head now, just like me (or Read More …
Audio books are becoming increasingly popular, according to this report, and sex is a popular topic. When Audible started nine years ago, “porn” and “sex” were popular Web search terms, even more so than now. So as an Internet company, Audible chose to offer racy titles. It now has hundreds of briskly selling erotica offerings, most available only as downloads, and increasingly geared toward women, including the “Herotica” series edited Read More …
So, I’m a bit late with my wrap up of 2006, but here it is. Ms Naughty blog has now been a WordPress blog for a year (although it was a little manual number for 18 months before that). 2006 was a bumper year for women’s porn. It garnered a lot more media attention than previous years and women certainly had a lot more erotic material to choose from. A Read More …
A while ago I wrote the post Ms Naughty Is About Porn For Women, partly to rant about dropping down the listings in Google, and partly as an attempt to get the search engine’s attention for that particular phrase. I thought I’d bring it up again because over Christmas, Google gave Ms Naughty another big boot up the clacker, and now I’m on page 16. What’s more disturbing is the Read More …