Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Good porn, bad porn, new developments in the industry, gossip
I’ve stumbled across another dodgy example Christian anti-porn extremism. This page asserts that the domain just4ladies.com was originally a “pioneering porn site for women” and was in operation as far back as 1995. It then gushingly praises the owner, Michele Washam, for converting it into a Christian site. Naturally I was curious to discover this when I found it on Google News. As far as I was aware, the first Read More …
GayWired has a long article about bisexual male porn stars that I found interesting. I normally don’t pay much attention to gay porn stars but perhaps I should, given that they’re mostly very good looking guys. The article discusses the idea of “gay for pay” and points out that male stars in gay porn are paid a hell of a lot more than in straight porn. They talk to gay-for-pay Read More …
Portfolio.com has a long article about the changing face of the porn industry, focusing particularly on YouPorn and the fact that it’s giving away free porn and not making any money, even though the owners want $20 million for it. The article has a few paragraphs about the emergence of women as consumers of porn, and in the interests of posterity I’m just going to cut and paste them (the Read More …
There’s been a landslide of depressing things happening here in Australia with regards to censorship and privacy issues. Depressing News Story 1: Australian police can now tap phones and monitor emails for 45 days if they suspect a person is “believed to be connected with child pornography.” I don’t think there’s a lot of checks and balances on this legislation so basically they can say that anyone is involved without Read More …
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 …
The Trinidad and Tobago Express has an enlightened article dealing with the idea of “porn addiction”, especially in reference to women. It starts off with a bit of a judgemental tone but then ploughs straight into the facts about what psycholigists really think of the term “porn addiction” (they think it’s crap). Linz added, “In fact, the notions of “sexual addiction” generally, including “pornography addiction” as well as the recent 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 …
Good For Her’s Chanelle Gallant has been interviewed about women and porn in the Toronto Sun. Most of the article focuses on the idea that porn can be a problem in relationships however the bottom half looks at the idea that chicks like porn too. “Sex on film is not anti-feminist,” she now says. “I think that’s total bull.” Chanelle is of course the organiser of the Feminist Porn Awards, Read More …
Apparently there are some gay men who get off on watching cunnilingus in porn. In response to a piece of advice by Dan Savage, a number of gay guys wrote in to say they enjoy seeing straight men muff dive. I love watching them be oral, enthusiastic, and submissive. I love to watch them slobber and grind their faces in, turn red with effort, etc. It’s not the sole focus Read More …
The Age has a lengthy article on the state of the Australian porn film industry here. It’s isn’t a huge business at this point, and very few adult films are made here. “It is, technically, illegal to make (porn) films in Australia,” says Fiona Patten, executive officer of the Eros Association, Australia’s national adult retail and entertainment association. Despite this, it is still possible to make smut movies in the 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 …
Figleaf has made an interesting post about porn for women here. He’s suggesting that society thinks that most women aren’t really interested in sex – he’s calls it the “no-sex class” and that this is a reason why it may be difficult to define “porn for women.” I won’t do a big post here because I wrote a lengthy comment on his blog. I do think it’s an interesting idea Read More …
I just had to laugh at the opinion piece by Shaunti Feldhahn proclaiming the serious dangers women face if they read romance novels. I was concerned to learn that many romance novels are not as harmless as they look. In fact, some marriage therapists caution that women can become as dangerously unbalanced by these books’ entrancing but distorted messages as men can by distorted messages of pornography. Oh my God! Read More …
Annie Sprinkle has published the transcript of a cheerful conversation held with anti-porn feminist Mae Tyme. Annie is a legend of sex-positive activism. Mae is a radical lesbian who feels that porn is a tool of the patriarchy. It makes for great reading. Mae: The truth is that you and I do view pornography very differently. You view it as an avenue to independence, joy, freedom, fun… Annie: ….education, harmony, Read More …
A Canadian man had the bright idea of putting porn pictures on the bottom of pizza boxes, to be revealed slowly as each slice was eaten. The big shock-horror aspect of this story is that most of his customers are female. “It’s about 75 to 80% female that are placing the orders and are taking orders at the door,” he said. There’s also a “think of the children” backlash. Of Read More …