Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Good For Her’s Feminist Porn Awards are over for another year. 350 attended the ceremony and party, which featured guests Anna Span, Simone Valentino, Peggy Comstock and Shine Louise Houston. “We came up with the idea for the Feminist Porn Awards because people don’t know they have a choice when it comes to porn,” said Chanelle Gallant, manager of Good for Her and the event’s organizer. “Yes, there’s a lot Read More …
“We knew more about each other than most of our friends knew about us.” This is a quote from Naked On The Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing In On Internet Sexploration. It’s by a sex blogger, talking about how she cultivated friendships with other women online. As I flicked through Audacia Ray’s new book, the statement rang true for me, because on almost every page I encountered names that I Read More …
Today is the 30th anniversary of the US release of Star Wars, a fact that no doubt has millions of Generation Xers such as myself feeling rather old. Naturally this has started me musing about the impact Star Wars had on my life, especially as I became quite obsessed with it when I was 10. And I do credit it as being a reason why I became a feminist. The Read More …
It’s getting closer to Good For Her’s Feminist Porn Awards which I blogged about here. They’ve updated their site and details are here. They’ve added a few more details to the guest list: Roundtable Guests Anna Span, UK’s first female porn director (Anna’s Mates, Pound A Punnet) Shine Louise Houston, the only queer woman of colour with a distribution deal for her erotic films (Crash Pad, Superfreak, In Search of Read More …
I was just perusing Amber Rhea’s blog and, amidst the many interesting musings on feminism and blogging, I discovered that she has graduated from her pole dancing school with a purple garter. I tried pole dancing, once, over two years ago. And I was absolutely crap at it. Jane and I from For The Girls attended a class for a feature we were doing. I did the dancing, Jane took Read More …
The BBC tells me that scientists are working on some kind of superpill that, get this, not only boosts a woman’s libido, but also reduces her appetite. The sensible feminist part of me frowns at this, thinking that it’s yet another attempt to pharmacologically mould women into something they’re not. The evil capitalist part of me wants to buy in on this research because it’s bound to make billions if Read More …
Xtra.ca has a great interview with Betty Dodson, the “Mother of Masturbation.” It makes for great reading, but one bit stood out for me: DW: Is there a distinction, in your mind, between sex-positive erotica and porn, or is this a false divide? BD: That debate successfully divided and conquered America’s feminism in the ’80s. One woman’s erotica is another woman’s porn or the other way around. It’s all sex Read More …
There’s a truly delightful, angry post about that Porn for Women book at OnlyMagazine.ca. Porn for Losers thoroughly puts the boot into the idea that the only thing that turns women on is housework. A few choice quotes: Finally ladies, a book that properly sanitizes and legitimizes pornography in a way that allows manufacturers to continue selling us lemon-scented furniture wipes and lets us chastely masturbate at the same time… Read More …
This is meant to primarily be an entertainment blog, but today I read something that raised my feminist hackles so much that I have to post about it. You may not be aware but on March 31 the Eritrean government banned female genital mutilation (FGM, also known as female “circumcision”). In looking up this story on Google News I was confronted with several opinion pieces in African newspapers by a 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 …
The recent news about the two female students suspended for using the word “vagina” when performing The Vagina Monologues at school had me feeling peeved – once again – at the way so many people use the word “vagina” instead of “vulva” to describe a woman’s genitals. Hell, if I was the principal, I’d feel tempted to suspend them because they used the wrong word. I’ve already written a long Read More …
The US FCC has banned a television commercial by Dove cosmetics because it shows too much flesh. The ads feature older women who are nude but discreetly posed, accompanied by the slogan “Too old for an anti-aging ad.” Adland also reports that conservative groups are upset by the campaign because it is “contributing to the sexualization of women as a commercial tool, as well as exposing children to adult nudity.” Read More …
The Sunday Mail reports on new research into the sexuality of women over 40. It found that women were far more likely to reach orgasm when masturbating alone than with their partner. 55% of women with no partner could achieve orgasm every time alone, compared to 24.6% with a partner. The study, called “What does sexuality mean to older women?” looked at 500 older women and measured their changes over Read More …
It’s International Women’s Day. I thought the best way to celebrate it at this blog was to whack up a photo of a naked man. See, feminism IS fun. Actually, I found this bit of information on the IWD site quite interesting: Many women’s groups around the world who understand, respect and chose to honour the history and progress made by the suffragettes use purple as their predominant representative colour. Read More …