Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
I watched the final of the Eurovision song contest last night and all the songs I liked didn’t do very well. I was so relieved and happy to hear the UK’s Hot Chocolate disco song because it wasn’t yet another boy band… but it came last. Denmark had a happy-go-lucky song that was very likeable and I also enjoyed the whimsy of the French song with its female singers wearing Read More …
Just wanted to whack up a couple of quick links today. The first is this Canadian article on the growth of Yaoi – Japanese gay erotica made for straight women. I’ve written about Yaoi before, this adds another perspective. Secondly I found this board post from a woman who works in IT. She is making a point about how IT is still an overwhelmingly male industry, at least in the Read More …
Over the weekend I watched all four Alien films plus AVP. It inspired me to get out my book of H.R. Giger’s amazing surreal artwork, some of which is amazingly explicit. Everything he creates has a lurking, dark sexual element to it, as if tapping into the vast and unvoiced fears of our sexual subconscious. It’s both arousing and frightening. Indeed, if you watch the first Alien film, I can’t Read More …
Stumbling about today I found this post at the delightfully named Adventures of a Well Mannered Can-Can Dancer blog. The author has posted a bunch of beautiful photos of guys dressed in 19th century clothing, posing as they would for an official portrait. The pics originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 06 edition of Numero Homme magazine under the title “Ultimate Dandys” (sic). Unfortunately I don’t have a proper link for Read More …
The newspapers seem to have gone into a gurgling meltdown this week over the upcoming Sex and The City Movie. Which prompts me to rant. Me and Sex and The City were not friends. It pissed me off. I think I only managed to watch a couple of episodes before I gave up in frustration. Sure, it was nice to have a show that talked so openly about sex, but Read More …
There’s something super post-post-modernist about my blog commenting on someone’s blog which is commenting on another blog… but anyway: Idolator blog offers up a list of sexy album covers featuring naked men, as distilled from Gigwise’s 50 sexiest album covers list. They also point out that most male entries in the list are treated as a joke, rather than as something “sexy.” This compared to the nude female album covers Read More …
Apparently the upcoming spring/summer issue of Britain’s GQ Style features an essay by fashion guru Tom Ford and pictorial featuring naked men. Ford says he wants to look at the way Western society avoids serious study of the male body and the disparity between the treatment of men’s and women’s bodies. NYMag has lifted whole paragraphs from Ford’s essay and turned it into a mock interview. It makes for interesting Read More …
I love Ewan McGregor. And it’s not just because of his eagerness to get naked in almost every film he’s been in. He’s also very likeable. Proof: Long Way Round. Damn, that was great TV. Oh, and he was naked in it too. Anyway, apparently his latest film was too much even for him. He’s told the press he was exhausted after having to repeatedly get nude and simulate sex Read More …
I told myself I wasn’t going to write about the Porn for Women book anymore because I’m sick of feeding their first page Google ranking while my blog languishes in purgatory for this particular term. But I can’t help it. Today I found the Chronicle Books blog which has a number of posts by the authors of “that book.” One asks women to submit “fantasies” for future books. Readers have Read More …
Violet Blue’s SF column this week, Ugly Violet, and her subsequent blog post has really struck a chord with me. She writes about the way comment trolls dismiss women because of their appearance and the body image issues women have in our culture. This is a conversation we need to be having and one I considered writing about a while ago. I must admit, I never got around to doing Read More …
Every now and again I search Google news for the term “porn for women” just in case someone has mentioned women’s erotica in the news. It’s popping up rather heavily at the moment but, unfortunately, the subject isn’t about porn. The cause of all the fuss is that damn Porn For Women book which features clothed men doing housework, combined with captions like “That’s OK honey, I’ll do the dishes.” Read More …
I find it hard to believe that the babies born in 1990 are coming of age this year. To me, 1990 wasn’t long ago at all. It was only yesterday. And it was a bit of a golden year for me. I was 17, I was finishing school, I was freshly in love and life was an open book, full of possibility. What is amazing is that 18 years ago Read More …
The Porn Report seems to be making waves at the moment, with most newspapers giving the story a relatively positive spin. The Courier Mail, for example, gives Alan McKee plenty of column space here, with only lip service paid to the conservatives who argue against porn, albeit without any proof, by the sounds of it. I think that’s the cool thing about this book – it offers good, well researched Read More …
Last Friday on a whim I decided to attend Sexpo in Brisbane, hoping to maybe make some industry contacts and also just to check it all out. I last went to one of these mega sex exhibitions in Sydney ten years ago, back when I was a “civilian.” That expedition was part of the growing curiousity about sex and the adult industry that led me to write for Australian Women’s Read More …
It’s almost 20 years ago that my brother bought Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son and insisted that I listen to a song called Infinite Dreams, even though I swore that I hated heavy metal because it was all noise. It wasn’t long after that that I bought the extremely cool Seventh Son T-shirt and spent the long years of my youth headbanging to a variety of hair Read More …