Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
If you’re not already familiar with them, this is from the BBC comedy series The Goodies. Pretty much every Australian kid who grew up in the 70s and 80s watched these guys at 6pm on weeknights on the ABC. They had a fairly large influence on my sense of humour. This sketch was part of an episode where they lampooned Mary Whitehouse, the conservative nutjob who did her best to Read More …
A while ago I made a little site called ExExExChurch which is my response to the way some religious groups are fixated on the idea of “porn addiction.” The name is a play on one of the worst culprits, XXXChurch, a insistent rabble of lunatics who believe that masturbation is a sin. Anyway, via Fleshbot I found this news story of another bunch of self-righteous busybodies who are filming the Read More …
I fondly remember the genuine quirkiness of the first episode of Malcolm In The Middle, mainly because of the opening scene when Malcolm’s mother Lois answers the door topless. Caroline: I’m here because I think there is a tremendous opportunity for Malcolm. Could you maybe put a top on? Lois: They’re just boobs, lady. You see ’em in the mirror every morning, and I’m sure yours are a lot nicer Read More …
Every time I’ve started to blog on this story it’s escalated, and now it’s just crazy. Police have seized artworks and are expected to lay child pornography charges against photographer artist Bill Henson and the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney. This is because Henson’s works included several photographs of 12 year old girls in the nude. In yesterday’s SMH, the artist explained his work: “I’ve worked with people this age Read More …
I read on Petra Joy’s blog today that her award winning bi scene from Female Fantasies was cut out of some copies of her film at the behest of a dealer. Male bi sexuality and female/male role reversal is still a major taboo in mainstream porn. So this scene was censored by one of my big dealers who accepted “Female Fantasies” on their shelves only if that particular scene that Read More …
A disturbing development in US free speech law – you can now be prosecuted for writing “obscene text.” Author Karen Fletcher was arrested a couple of years ago for offering explicit stories about child torture and sex on her members-only website. Today she has decided to plead guilty to obscenity charges, saying she has agoraphobia and doesn’t want to contest the case in public. So… this is one of these Read More …
I have a piece of paper that says I can be a teacher. I have no intention of using it unless I’m desperate because teaching in 2008 is a shit job that is undervalued and underpaid. But I suspect that I would have no hope of employment even if I did go mad and decided I wanted to teach. That’s because teachers are supposed to be flawless, upstanding members of Read More …
You may already be aware that Britain is about to pass a law which outlaws the possession of “extreme pornography” (details here.) The law is based on moral hysteria and very bad science and is being shuffled through parliament in a much larger bill full of other issues such as privacy and immigration. Interestingly, the British press has done more reporting on a clause about data loss than it has Read More …
The Australian government seems determined to go ahead with plans to filter the internet at ISP level, making people “opt in” if they want to see adult sites. While the story itself is distinctly biased, the 51 comments listed after it cheered me up immensely. About 95% of them are against ISP filtering, and all make the point that parents shouldn’t expect the government to do their job for them. Read More …
We may have a new government but it looks like they’re going to be just as painfully conservative in some areas as the last lot. On New Year’s Eve (nice sneaky date for it) the communications minister Stephen Conroy announced a plan to filter internet content at the ISP level. This despite the fact that every computer-savvy person knows it just won’t work. Complaints that the plan was repressing free Read More …
On Monday the Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun ran a dodgy article about an unnamed Australian website. The article is long on self-righteous moralising but extremely light on for names. It asserts that the website is running photos of “teenagers”, that the models are exploited and that the websites charges money to remove photos if the models request it. It also gets very excited about the idea that the site Read More …
I’ve stumbled across another dodgy example Christian anti-porn extremism. This page asserts that the domain just4ladies.com was originally a “pioneering porn site for women” and was in operation as far back as 1995. It then gushingly praises the owner, Michele Washam, for converting it into a Christian site. Naturally I was curious to discover this when I found it on Google News. As far as I was aware, the first Read More …
I had to laugh at this terribly worried article about how the racy articles in Cosmopolitan automatically lead children to “the hard stuff.” For some parents and one community leader in Gainesville, magazines like Glamour, Cosmo, and Vanity Fair are sending the wrong message. “You’re just telling teenagers to come out there and get some,” Kathy Imes tells NewsChannel 32… “As you know, children are curious. They’re going to look Read More …
The lovely Ell told me about a new campaign from the Eros Foundation that just may make me forgive Robbie Swan for those other stupid comments about banning porn in the NT. They’ve started the I Love Sex Campaign, setting up a handy page that allows you to send emails to politicians, defending the right to enjoy porn. It’s a response to Christian lobby groups which are engaged in their Read More …
There’s been a landslide of depressing things happening here in Australia with regards to censorship and privacy issues. Depressing News Story 1: Australian police can now tap phones and monitor emails for 45 days if they suspect a person is “believed to be connected with child pornography.” I don’t think there’s a lot of checks and balances on this legislation so basically they can say that anyone is involved without Read More …