Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress Read More …
I seem to be doing a lot of travelling and going offline. I’m doing it again now – I have a wedding to attend 2000km away and I’m driving down there. Plus I’m going to see Sting which will be great. I’ve been to every concert of his in Australia since 1993. So the poor blog is neglected again. I’m sure you’ll understand. Please, have a look at past posts Read More …
I’m flooded in. I haven’t been posting on my blog or doing much work lately because I’ve a) been on holidays and b) have been very distracted by an unfolding natural disaster over the last few days. Where I live in Australia is suffering the worst flooding in many years. I’m safe but all the roads into my town are cut by floodwater. And yesterday things became so much worse Read More …
I’m an atheist but I still enjoy Christmas because it means good times with my family. Whatever it means to you, here’s wishing you a fantastic festive season.
I’ve been away for a week, visiting Sydney on a bit of a junket. While I was there I joined in the Marriage Equality march that went from Town Hall to Taylor Square. I had intended to go to the speeches at the start but… well, I must admit I got a little caught up at the AC/DC exhibition. Marching is more fun anyway. I took a bit of video Read More …
I’m in love with this video: it’s called The Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris . Yes, strange, but very clever. I’m posting this because I don’t have time to blog at the moment. I’ve decided to take part in National Novel Writing Month. I’ve got to have a 50,000 word novel written by November 30. Trouble is, I only started on November 7. Read More …
It’s Movember and that means all over the world, guys are growing some lovely facial hair under their noses for a good cause, usually prostate cancer research. I think it’s fabulous and I enjoy seeing the hair-growing progress of my male friends as the month goes on. There’s a certain air of irony to Movember. It seems to operate on the idea that a sane man wouldn’t ordinarily sport a Read More …
This happened two nights ago. It was a balmy evening by the beach and we were heading off from the caravan park to have dinner at a nearby restaurant. As we headed for the exit we noticed a young woman walking quickly away from a man muttering “fuck off!” She started to run into the main area of the park. She and the man were followed by two other people Read More …
You may have already seen this video by sex advice columnist Dan Savage. In it he and his husband urge gay teens to ignore the bullies at high school because life does get better. Today I also watched this very moving speech by Texas city councillor Joel Burns, discussing his own experiences of bullying and the happy life he’s led since high school: The “It’s Get Better” Project has now Read More …
Thanks to Violet Blue, I found myself perusing Franklin Veaux’s Human Sex Map, a very clever visual representation of all the various kinks, fetishes and sexual practices that people enjoy. The map groups together sexual behaviours and depicts them as countries, or mountains, or islands. Thus the Land of D/s includes the counties of Orgasm Denial and Old Leather. I found the map to be quite fascinating and marvelled at Read More …
You may have noticed that blog and twitter posts have been a little scarce over the last few weeks. That’s because I decided to take up a new hobby and it’s taken over my life. Five weeks ago I decided to join my husband on a 570km 9 day cycle tour, along with 1500 other people. A bit of a strange decision for someone who hasn’t really been into cycling Read More …
Over the weekend, Australia had an election. Now the people have spoken and their overwhelming response is: Meh. We have a hung parliament. Neither Labor or the Liberal/National coalition won enough seats to form government. This means the fate of the country lies with three country independents and a freshly minted Greens MP. Meanwhile, the Greens have gained control of the senate. This is all fantastic news. If you’ve been Read More …
So it’s official now: the Opposition will scrap plans for the internet filter if they get into government. Liberal Treasury spokesperson Joe Hockey spoke about this stance on JJJ radio and it was later confirmed by another party spokesperson. If you were reading my Twitter feed you would have seen that my husband actually got Joe Hockey to say this over two weeks ago (July 18) when we were on Read More …
2010 was going to be a fabulous year for me. After winning the Petra Joy Award in Berlin in October 2009, I had big plans to make more erotic films including a feature. I had planned to travel to the US to make the movie and do more business there. I was also going to do a lot more with For The Girls and maybe get a book organised. And Read More …
Gorgeous cartoon from Stuff No One Told Me, via Erika Lust. I think we need to make this point a little more often. Romance novels are often derisively called “porn for women” and, while this is inaccurate in a lot of ways, it does make a point about unrealistic fantasies. Both porn and romance/fairytales offer a fantasy version of the opposite sex and depict sex and relationships in a very Read More …