Category: Raunch Culture

I’ve been contacted by Anne Sabo, an academic who is researching women’s porn, and the changing face of gender relations within pornography. She’s co-hosting an academic conference at the University of Oslo in Norway in June entitled Heterosexual desire in gender equality discourse: A point of trouble? Now, don’t let the title put you off. This is actually an important roundtable discussion about women and porn, new and alternative porn, Read More …

The SF Weekly has a very long article on the Cake movement… and bits of it have me shaking my head. Overall, it gives a negative view of the Cake women, and suggests that they’re not “real” feminists. Having just written a huge post about the way some feminists make assumptions about other women’s motivations and intelligence, I now see a fine example of this mindset in that article. Take Read More …

Last week For The Girls published my review of the book A Piece of Cake: Recipes for Female Sexual Pleasure. Written by Melinda Gallagher and Emily Scarlet Kramer, the book is essentially the manifesto of the five-year-old CAKE movement. It tells the real-life stories of women’s sexual experiences and fantasies. A while ago I posted about CAKE in my old blog. CAKE parties feature porn viewings, male and female strippers, Read More …