Am I Terminated From Youtube Or Not?
I’ve been temporarily banned from Youtube. Their guidelines are obscure and I want to appeal but Google has made the process impossible. Read More …
Category: Censorship
Hollywood and The C-Word: Cunnilingus Scenes
Hollywood thinks cunnilingus scenes deserve “explicit” ratings, though violence and rape don’t receive the same censorship. Evan Rachel Wood protested this suppression of women’s sexuality on Twitter. Here’s a list of mainstream films that have cunnilingus. Read More …
Fists Are For Fucking, Not Fighting
In honour of Fisting Day, here’s a snippet of the short erotic film starring Zahra Stardust. In this movie we hear some of Zahra’s thoughts on fisting. Read More …
What If A Religion Is Running The State-Sanctioned Internet Filter?
Filter software Net Nanny aka ContentWatch takes a moral stance about porn, “porn addiction” and gender essentialism. It is partnered with Focus on the Family. What happens when a government mandates the use of filter software that is owned by a religion? Read More …
Surprise! Another Internet Filter Plan!
The conservative party in Australia didn’t release costing until 41 hours before the election. And hidden in those policies is a mandatory internet filter. Worse than the one our government abandoned last year. Read More …
Vulva Cover Censored: Apparently “Demeaning To Women”
The editors of the Sydney student newspaper decided to use the cover to make a point about women’s bodies and thus photographed the vulvas of 18 students in all their glory. The cover has been censored and removed from shelves Read More …
Aporntheid – How I Experience Discrimination Because Of My Work
Creating porn – even if it’s ethical, feminist porn – means I experience a variety of discrimination in how I am treated. This is especially true when it comes to accessing and using social media and much worse when dealing with Google’s monopoly. I think it’s fair to ask: why? Read More …
Porn Panel At Reality Bites Literary Fest
Yesterday I attended the “Money Shot” porn panel at the Reality Bites Literary festival. I wanted to hear what author Jeff Sparrow had to say about porn and censorship. He has written a book called The Money Shot, which looks at the dysfunctional censorship system here in Australia. This review does a good summary of the book. Also on the panel were erotica and fiction writer Krissy Kneen and journalist Read More …
UK Goes Mad With New Opt-In To Porn Policy
The conservative government in the UK has announced that all households in the UK will have to officially opt-in to allowing porn by notifying their ISPs of their intention. The Guardian reports: In the most dramatic step by the government to crack down on the “corroding” influence of pornography on childhood, the prime minister will say that all internet users will be contacted by their service providers and given an Read More …
Tumblr Reverses Its Pornocalypse – For Now
Over the last few days the internet as been mightily stirred up thanks to Valleywag “breaking the news” that Tumblr had effectively hidden all 2 million-plus porn blogs. It had removed the “erotic” tag along with numerous other porny tags and inserted a robots.txt file that hid any blogs marked “NSFW” or “adult” from all search engines. I say “breaking the news” because Bacchus from Eros Blog had actually discovered Read More …
Clitblocked By Google
This is not going to be a very coherent post, I suspect. More of an angry “I need to vent” kind of rant. Hot on the heels of being censored by Vimeo came the news that Blogger (owned by Google) was giving users 4 days to remove any adult advertising from their sites. The email sent out to those who had voluntarily labelled their blogs NSFW didn’t bother to define Read More …
What Happened When I Asked Vimeo To Define “Pornography”
If you read my twitter stream you know that last week Vimeo deleted four of my film trailers (and two private full videos) because apparently the films had violated their community guidelines. The original emails I got said: Hello Ms Naughty (Louise Lush), Your video “I.M. In Love Trailer” has been removed for violating our Guidelines. Reason: Vimeo does not allow pornography or sexually explicit material. If you believe this Read More …
Fisting Day Reveals The Nonsense That Is Censorship
You may be surprised to discover that October 21 is International Fisting Day. This is a day to celebrate and raise awareness of a sex act that is considered to be too obscene for porn. It was created last year by queer porn stars Jiz Lee and Courtney Trouble in an effort to draw attention to the issues surrounding fisting. Read More …
Porn On Australian Current Affairs Shows
About this time last year I wrote a post called Beware These Skewed Statistics About Porn “Addiction”. I talked about preliminary research by two University of Sydney academics, Gomathi and Raj Sitharthan, who had conducted a survey of 800 people, focusing on compulsive behaviour toward porn, or, as it’s misleadingly called “porn addiction.”* The survey specifically invited participants who self-identified as having a problem with porn. Many of the questions Read More …
“Excessive Genital Detail”: Photoshopped Vulvas In Men’s Mags
A while ago I went to Sexpo and came home with a showbag full of… well, I didn’t bother to look to be honest. I was too busy being interested in my new corsets. The bag got shoved into a corner of my office and ignored until I did some cleaning. Thus I discovered 3 freebie copies of softcore men’s magazines: Zoo Weekly, Picture and People. These magazines won’t win Read More …