Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Today brings the sad news that Patrick Swayze has finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer. I thought I’d add a blog post on behalf of all the thirty-something women who are feeling a little bit sad right now. In our teens, Patrick embodied an ideal of manhood that was very appealing. His role as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing was certainly romantic… but it was something else too. He represented an Read More …
Fashion and design magazine Wallpaper* has gone out on a limb by offering a cover featuring a “peelable” naked man. The cover starts out all very clothed, but you can then peel back a sticker and the rather handsome guy on the cover is totally naked. It’s a lovely idea and one I’d like to see more of. I’m sure the girls at Erotica Cover Watch will be very pleased. Read More …
I’ve been following the lovely Eddie Izzard on Twitter for a while now. He’s currently running six weeks of consecutive marathons across Britain for charity, which is reason enough to admire him, but he’s also an extremely funny cross dresser. As you can see from the above video. Eddie enjoys getting out the high heels and putting on makeup and is happy to flaunt the fact in his shows. He Read More …
The Murdoch Newspapers have this week been plugging a book called Why Women Have Sex by Cindy Meston and David Buss. After surveying 1000 women they authors claim they know the “real reasons” why women have sex and say that desire, lust or attraction come a long way down the list. The 1,006 women interviewed as research for the book gave some very surprising answers. One claimed she did it Read More …
Electronics company Philips has decided to brave the prudes and boldly bring out a massager that’s explicitly for sexual use. That’s right. Philips has started to make sex toys. Gasp, shock, look at the share price go up. Their new range of personal massagers are designed for use by couples which is an interesting take on things. “We know that couples in happy relationships tend to have satisfying sex lives 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 …
[flashvideo file=”video/labyrinth.flv” /] In 2005 I wrote about my love of the film Labyrinth. I also re-discovered the wonder that is David Bowie’s crotch. If you haven’t seen Labyrinth, it’s basically a fantasy film created for young adults by Jim Henson (may peace be on his name). It’s got a lot of muppets, puppets and humour. It’s also chock full of sexual tension between Jennifer Connolly’s female protagonist and the Read More …
In the last year I’ve become a heavy user of Twitter, as you can see from the sidebar with my regular Tweets. While it’s been great fun it’s also been a serious drain on my time and resources. I can lose half a day following links and Twittering and reading what other people have said. I put off doing real work because I’m frittering away my time, amusing myself, finding Read More …
No reason for posting this. It’s just funny.
One of the good things about working from home is the ability to drop everything (including blogging) if someone comes to visit. And that’s why there hasn’t been much happening around here the last few days. I’m back now and armed with this lovely photo of a firefighter, taken at a festival on Thursday. He was selling charity calendars of half-naked firefighters and so I thought I’d do a quick Read More …
This week’s movie review at For The Girls is of Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex. When it first arrived in my mailbox I must admit to feeling very nervous about watching it. Rough Sex is not exactly my bag, baby. In the end, though, I appreciated it for what it was: a step in the right direction. Tristan has worked her sex-positive magic on a very prickly topic and turned spitting Read More …
In Berlin last year I had the honour of meeting Jennifer Lyon Bell, an American filmmaker with a compelling vision for erotic film. Her film Matinee is a gorgeous work of art, well written, masterfully acted and beautifully filmed. It is a wonderful addition to the growing canon of well-made, female-focused erotic films and I consider it to be part of the new wave of sex-positive movies that are forging Read More …
Here it is folks, down and dirty MRI pornography! Actually, this video features the animated images taken of a man and a woman having sex in an MRI machine. All for research, of course. The sex bit starts at 1.37 if you can’t wait. Funnily enough, it looks pretty much how you’d expect it to look, although I find the way the woman’s insides move around to be rather fascinating. Read More …
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ~Gloria Leonard My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live. ~Erica Jong, Playboy Magazine, September 1975 Familiarity breeds contempt – and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935 Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection. Read More …