Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Well, bugger me with a fish fork. Australia’s Eros Association – which is supposed to be the lobby group for the adult industry here – seems to be perfectly OK with the government’s plan to ban Aborigines from owning porn. The racially dubious laws make it illegal to own adult material in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and they come into effect today. If you own more than Read More …
Right, so this post won’t seem very relevant to non Australians but I just have to voice my glee at the stunt pulled by The Chaser team today. They set up a fake motorcade with Canadian flags and made it past two checkpoints (I’m sickened there’s such a thing as a “checkpoint” in my country right now) in the APEC fenced security area in Sydney, drove all the way to Read More …
Three cheers for 16 year old Tom Wood who, in half an hour, proved that the new Australian government-approved porn filter isn’t worth the smear on an IT expert’s underpants. He’s shown that spending $84 million on compulsory net filtering software is a complete waste of money because teenagers know how to get around that kind of thing. If they want to look at porn, they will. But what I’m Read More …
The German author of a children’s book has pulled the plug on an American book deal because the publishers demanded that she censor images of nude art in the background of her story. It wasn’t even the painted reclining nude woman that caused a problem. Nope. Instead, the publishers were up in arms over a nude male statue, complete with penis. Now, the article about this describes said penis as Read More …
I’ve spent a bit of time mulling over this interview between Susie Bright and author Debbie Nathan (thanks to Violet Blue for the link). They discuss sex panics and censorship and Debbie bravely puts the question out there about whether there’s as much child pornography as popular belief (and the government) suggests. It’s a question worth asking given that child abuse is being used to justify attacks on civil rights Read More …
It’s depressing, but not surprising. The Australian government’s plan to prevent aborigines in remote communities from accessing porn has sparked calls for more censorship. Mr Anderson said that by banning pornography flowing into NT Aboriginal communities, the Howard Government had effectively conceded there was a link between watching the material and acting in dysfunctional ways. “I think what comes out of this is we are now conceding that there’s a Read More …
Dating site Mingle has come up with a very viral way of getting themselves out there – this automatic blog rater. Unsurprisingly, Ms Naughty is an NC-17 blog according to their American-based rating system. They came to this conclusion because: This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: * porn (19x) * sex (3x) * sexy (1x) I feel kind of disappointed. Surely they could have Read More …
I can’t believe that’s the title of this post. The Howard government has announced an “emergency” plan to deal with widespread child abuse among aboriginal communities, especially in the Northern Territory. Beyond banning alcohol and resuming control of communities and land, the government plans to ban X-rated porn. More information here. While I’m all for preventing child abuse (isn’t everyone?), I feel the need to stand up and say that Read More …
You learn something new everyday. I’ve discovered that in the UK the unofficial rule for deciding whether a photo of a naked man was obscene was called the “Mull of Kintyre Test.” In Britain it was against the law to publish photos of erect penises. Of course, “erect” can encompass a whole range of turgidity and so to counter this grey area a general consensus was reached: the dick could Read More …
This morning’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age both have two major stories on porn. The first’s headline is One in three porn viewers are women. Adele Horin sites Nielsen Netratings figures about how many Aussies are enjoying online smut (4.3 million in the last month), and says one third are female. Unfortunately, that’s not what the main gist of the article is about. It’s actually a leader into the Read More …
My red skirt is hitched up to my waist though no higher. Below it the Commander is fucking. What he is fucking is the lower part of my body. I do not say making love, because this is not what he’s doing. Copulating too would be inaccurate, because it would imply two people and only one is involved. Nor does rape cover it: nothing is going on here that I Read More …
I’ve posted about the Eros Association and AdultShop.com challenging the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification before, here, here and here. Now AdultShop is taking their Viva Erotica fight to the federal court, asking that adult films depicting non-violent consensual sex be given an R rating, meaning they can be legally sold everywhere. The CEO has pointed out that community standards had changed since 1984, when they were first Read More …
Not sure how I missed this one. In Texas, police arrested a group of 8 Chippendales dancers for gyrating sexually. With their pants on. They’ve now been let off. Last Friday eight Chippendale dancers and three show and club promoters were arrested making national headlines. According to police, the arrested dancers “sexually stimulated and sexually gratified” female audience members during their show at Jake`s Sports Café, which violates the city`s 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 …
I’m sad to report that Adultshop.com has failed in it’s bid to get the Australian censors to change the laws regarding explicit material. (Here’s my previous post about their legal challenge regarding community standards in Australia.) According to the SMH, the Classification Review Board has ruled that Viva Erotica cannot be rated “R” rather than “X” because it primarily has sex in it, without a plot, and thus has no Read More …