Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Good porn, bad porn, new developments in the industry, gossip
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 …
On October 20, 2003 an article called “The Porn Myth” by Naomi Wolf appeared in NYMag. The article suggests that porn desensitises men to real women and thus ruins relationships. She says that women now have to compete with a porn star aesthetic: Now you have to offer—or flirtatiously suggest—the lesbian scene, the ejaculate-in-the-face scene. Being naked is not enough; you have to be buff, be tan with no tan Read More …
The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, hosted by the BFI, featured a special selection of female-focused and produced erotica. Under the banner “Female Fantasies”, the festival screened a number of erotic shorts by female filmmakers, including Petra Joy. From festival website: A new wave of feminist pornographers explore authentic onscreen sexuality with humour, edge, and style. Celebrating bisexual and lesbian women’s fantasies, they are not afraid to cross genre Read More …
Delightful columnist Emma Tom had a bit of fun with this column, inspired by the recently released Porn Report. She takes the idea that all porn is always addictive to its logical conclusion. Unfortunately your frigid female boss (who’s probably a lezzo and not the good kind, either) lacks a sense of humour. You lose your job, then lose all your money downloading pony porn and snuff flicks from the Read More …
The recent Cinekink erotic film festival in New York featured a panel discussion called “Women Behind The Lens” featuring Candida Royalle, Audacia Ray and Julie Simone. There’s a video of the whole discussion here. I haven’t watched it yet because I just don’t have the time today but it’s there if you’re interested. Audacia has blogged about her participation here. Both she and Cory Silverberg question the validity of the 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 …
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 …
Seems the Israeli girls are all rather liberated, if we’re to believe a survey of over 14,000 women published recently. Apparently 71% of Israeli women consider themselves to be liberal and daring in bed, with the same percentage happily having orgasms regularly. So it’s unsurprising that half of them say they enjoy watching erotic materials including films, websites and books with 37% specifically saying they liked pornography. They were also Read More …
The AVN awards for 2008 have been announced and, disappointingly, Candida Royalle’s Afrodite Superstar only received one award, for Best Music, despite receiving a large number of nominations. It’s a real shame that so few other female-friendly films got up, especially considering the huge number of movies that were nominated this year – I made a full list here. Instead, awards went to such quality productions as Face Full of 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 …
It’s a little late but here it is, as promised: the Porn for Women Retrospective for 2007. It was actually a very busy year for women’s erotica, with heaps of movies released especially for straight women and continuing coverage in the press. Statistics and surveys showed that the number of women enjoying adult material is still growing – even if a lot of people still think that women don’t really Read More …
USA Today reports on a survey of 813 students about attitudes to porn. The researchers have concluded that young people are more accepting of porn than their parents, seeing it as an “acceptable way to express sexuality.” Naturally the study has prompted much hand wringing about the terrible influence of internet porn. Most headlines have focused on the idea that women are more accepting of porn, although apparently most of Read More …
After yesterday’s post about that Abby Winters beat up, I thought I should post this. Porn and sex in general often get a bad wrap in the mainsteam media. An awful lot of news stories and articles feature an anti-porn and sex-negative slant that help to create a “bad vibe” when it comes to sex in general. The “Sexies” are new awards designed to reward fair and sex-positive journalism. Readers 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 …
In Australia, “rooting” is a euphemism for having sex. So we’ve long giggled whenever an American says “I’m rooting for ___ to win.” Now I can use it in a title… and I’m giggling. Anyway, the AVN award nominations have been announced and it’s another year of the same ol’ same ol’. Even the “alternative” category is laced with productions by big name companies like Penthouse and Playboy and is Read More …