Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
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 …
I feel the need to say this to the world: I am a woman, and I don’t shop. Shopping is not a fun activity for me, and it certainly doesn’t define who I am. Shopping is an unfortunate necessity that often leaves me feeling frustrated, exhausted and – if it’s clothes shopping – with low self esteem. Ditto with shoes. I don’t find high-heeled shoes appealing. I can’t wear them. Read More …
Australian patron of anti-feminist backlash sentiments, Bettina Arndt, has written an opinion piece berating all those nasty 70s feminists, particularly Shere Hite, for “oppressing” women who have orgasms via intercourse. She’s claiming that new research into the nerve endings of the vagina has made the old vag “fashionable” again after decades of “clitoromania.” Thankfully, Emma Tom has her own spin on this rather over-the-top piece: A better response to Whipple Read More …
Earlier this year, Toronto adult store Good For Her hosted the inaugural Feminist Porn Awards. Now manager Chanelle Gallant has given an interview to Canada.com. She says that sales of female-friendly porn have tripled this year. “I think it’s kind of like ‘If you build it, they will come.’ We just needed to let people know that there was porn out there that is more female-friendly.” She says that DVD Read More …
So, after skimming through this extract from Fay Weldon’s book “What Makes Women Happy” I found myself wondering if it had been written in jest. Surely she can’t be serious? What else to make of paragraphs like this: Better, more conducive to happiness, to see orgasm as an additional extra, something special that happens, a bonus. Just fake. Happy, generous- minded women, who are not too hung up about emotional Read More …
The commercial media in this country shits me, it really does. Poor old Steve Irwin is dead, killed by a stingray. It’s sad, but somehow not surprising that he should die young at the hands of a wild animal. Everyone I know says pretty much the same thing: “Yeah, I thought a snake would get him. He was a bit of a nong, wasn’t he? But he was so enthusiastic Read More …
No one has the right to tell you how to fuck, according to Rachel Kramer Bussell in her latest Lusty Lady column at The Village Voice. Arguing against those feminist “scolds” Ariel Levy and Pamela Paul, Rachel makes the point that enjoying sex – in any form – does not constitute a betrayal of feminist ideals. Here’s a few paragraphs: There’s a world of difference between being branded a sex Read More …
Searching Google for “porn for women” I found this this blog post by a radical feminist, announcing why women’s erotica is against the sisterhood. This blogger toes the old line about how porn only exists so men can degrade women, and wrongly declares that the word “pornography” means “depictions of women as vile whores” in Greek (the real translation is “writing of/about harlots”). She then says that, since porn’s only Read More …
This month’s feature article at For The Girls is a tribute to the pioneers of Pro Sex Feminism: Annie Sprinkle, Betty Dodson, Susie Bright, Joani Blank, Candida Royalle et al. It was hard to sum up the achievements of these women in one handy-dandy paragraph each, but I gave it a red hot go. In researching each of these heroines I visited their websites to see what they’d been up Read More …
The National Post has a nice feature article discussing the recently held feminist porn awards. A few quotes: “‘It’s not that sex is degrading – sex is awesome. It was the images that were degrading,’ explained Abiola Abrams, an African-American porn producer based in New York.” “While feminist porn is made for women, the directors hope there will be a sort of sexual trickle-down effect, that men will see what Read More …
There’s a post at the Smart Girl’s Porn Club by Sarah about the book Pornified by Pamela Paul. Sarah says: “She lists of the reasons that Pro-Porn fems aren’t really feminists at all, and why they don’t really get the dark truth about porn: They only view the soft stuff, the Candida Royalle collections, the womens erotica shelf. They are brainwashed by the patriarchy and the media to think that Read More …