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On Sunday celebrity sex blogger Belle De Jour outed herself as research scientist Dr. Brooke Magnanti. The media has since gone beserk over the story and I won’t repeat it all here. What I have been doing is trawling through the stories on Google news and one thing keeps popping out at me: a lot of commenters refuse to believe that Dr. Magnanti doesn’t regret her foray into prostitution. They’re Read More …
The mainstream media has featured a number of articles about women and porn recently, most still breathlessly amazed that women enjoy porn. The Telegraph (UK) featured a short piece on the large number of women present at the Berlin Porn Film festival. It also discusses the “PorYes” awards created by Laura Merritt. The SMH has reprinted the article today with comments. I’m still waiting for mine to be moderated. Meanwhile Read More …
Today (November 17) is the big day. The long-awaited Oprah Winfrey show about women and porn is due to be aired. It features Violet Blue, longtime blog friend and advocate of women’s porn. It also has an interview with Jenna Jameson. That bit is to be expected given she’s the big name star but I’m not sure she’s the best example of the way women are changing the industry. The Read More …
I’m back. I’ve actually been back in Australia for a week but it’s taken me 7 days to drive home from Sydney, visit a bunch of people on the way and recover from jetlag. Or try to recover – I was up at 5.30am this morning, listening to the familiar birdcalls and feeling excited about getting back into work. I’m particularly keen to edit my video taken at the Berlin Read More …
I’m really late with this announcement but it’s still worth shouting from the rooftops: gorgeous male porn star and Heartthrob of the Year Tyler Knight is writing a regular column for For The Girls! Tyler has long had ambitions to write and his straight-from-the-heart columns about life inside the porn industry are compulsively readable. A taster: We have never met. What happens between us is not chemistry. It is biology. Read More …
If you’ve got a thing for very thin, gothy-looking, half-naked men then you’ll be pleased to discover the Home For Lost Boys. It’s a relatively new membership site featuring galleries of “alternative, beautiful, non-mainstream boys” and it does seem to be aimed at women. The FAQ says that they’re not necessarily a porn site: The site focuses on sensual, rather than explicit, content. None of our models are required to Read More …
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by a journalist from the Spanish media site 20 Minutos. Their article about porn for women is finally out – available here. Unfortunately it’s all in Spanish and – curse my monolingual Aussie heritage – I don’t really know what it says. Except that the photos let me know it’s got comments by Spanish erotic filmmaker Erika Lust. Babelfish to the rescue. Read More …
I found my heart beating a little faster this week when the organisers of the Berlin Porn Film Festival sent me their catalogue for the upcoming festival. There it was, my film, scheduled to screen at 6pm on Sunday 25th October, 2009. How completely exciting! I remember the first time I had anything published: it was an erotic story in Australian Women’s Forum in 1997. This film premiere is kind Read More …
In the last week or so I’ve been musing about the length of sex scenes in videos, specifically, what’s too short and what’s too long. I was recently editing a non-exclusive male masturbation vid and, in a frenzy of cuts, got a painfully long 18 minute video down to under 5 minutes. In that space of time I captured the guy fondling himself through his pants, taking them off, becoming Read More …
Wow. Erika Lust, who produced the amazingly good Five Hot Stories For Her, is working on a new project. And she’s just released this 7 minute short to promote it. The first half is a bit too dark to really work out what’s happening but things hot up at the mid way mark. Just goes to show that a film can be incredibly erotic without going into too much explicit Read More …
I hate being late to the party with these things but I’ve only just heard about the European Feminist Porn Award which is being held on Saturday 17th October in Berlin. Yes… I’m going to miss them, dammit, but despite my general divineness and best efforts at omnipresence I’ve discovered that I just can’t be everywhere at once. So this is essentially a party and film night to honour the Read More …
A survey of over 1000 French adults has found that 89% of those interviewed had seen an adult film in part or full, with 83% of women saying they’d seen porn. Most had viewed the porn at home, with just over half having watched it with a partner. Despite the impressive viewing statistics, many French considered porn to be less than satisfactory. 84% said the sex in porn films had Read More …
Almost 3 years ago I interviewed Anna Span and she mentioned that she was working on a porn film called “Women Love Porn” but it had been delayed. The British censorship body didn’t like a scene of female ejaculation because they don’t believe in it and ruled it to be pissing. (Yes, that’s right. They don’t believe in it. Sigh.) In any case, this film has been hanging around in Read More …
This week sees the premiere of Dirty Diaries, a new feminist porn film helmed by filmmaker Mia Engberg. The movie features twelve shorts created by different women, each offering their own version of what’s sexy. The above pics are stills from three of the films: Skin, For The Liberation of Men and Flasher Girl On Tour. “Erotica is good and we need it,” says the Dirty Diaries manifesto. “We truly Read More …
Erotica authors (and book cover crusaders) Kristina Lloyd and Mathilde Madden have written a great piece in the Guardian discussing the difficulties Filament has had in printing erect dicks. I liked this bit: When set against the plethora of men’s lifestyle and top-shelf magazines featuring scantily clad and open-legged women, the struggles faced by Filament highlight a deeply entrenched sexism: men can look at women but women cannot look at Read More …