The Joy Award: Encouraging Female Perspectives In Porn

I’ve long been a fan of the films of Petra Joy. Now she’s launched The Joy Award, a short film competition that aims to encourage new female filmmakers to create erotic movies. This award is for first time female film-makers who would like to create erotic films that dare to question porn clichés and show sex in innovative and creative ways… The theme of the short film competition is: “What Read More …

Erotica Label Black Lace Shuts Up Shop

The Guardian reports that major erotica publisher Black Lace will not be publishing any new titles in the coming year. The 16-year-old Black Lace imprint specialises in erotica for women, by women, and has sold more than 4m books worldwide, but its publisher, Virgin Books – part of the publishing giant Random House – has decided to stop commissioning new titles for both itself and its sister imprint, Nexus, which Read More …

EEK! I’m Turning 36

Yes folks, it’s my birthday. I’m another year older and there’s a few more wrinkles. This year I found a great list of reasons to feel good about getting older: 1. It sure as hell beats the alternative. 2. I can still touch my toes. 3. Any occasion that encourages cake and gifts is a good occasion. 4. When I see a light at the end of a tunnel, I Read More …

Mixing Business With Pleasure

This sexy threesome pic is one of my faves – I love how both the guys are totally focused on her and she’s in the middle of a gorgeous male sandwich. You’ll find more pics from this set at the site Mixing Business With Pleasure. And with that, I’m going to be scarce for a bit. Yes, I’ve already been very scarce as it it on this blog, I’ve been Read More …

An Interview With Emily Dubberley

Emily Dubberley is the editor of Scarlet Magazine and she used to run Cliterati which was a great female-friendly erotica site ages ago. Now she’s got a book out about kinky sex. I found this great interview with her so thought I’d throw up a quick link to it. I tend to sympathise with this comment: Occasionally I’ll get turned on writing about sex, but 99 per cent of the Read More …

The Gorgeous Tim Minchin

I’ve had this song in my head for days so I thought I’d share it. Tim Minchin is an Australian comedian with a very dark sense of humour. He’s also strangely attractive. I think it just goes to show how eyeliner on a man can be extremely sexy. Also just have to include the following photo, officially called “Erotic Jesus Tim” because it’s gorgeous. See more pics at the official Read More …

Absolute Nakedness

I post a lot of photos of naked men on the blog but this one is so very different. We’ve all seen it plenty of times but today I was just struck by the sheer beauty and vulnerability it. The photo is by Annie Lieboweitz and it was taken on December 8, 1980 – the day John Lennon was shot. There’s something incredibly poignant about the fact that this image Read More …

Abby Winters Gets Raided

Yesterday the Victorian cops raided the office of abbywinters.com and arrested its owner Garion Hall. The raid was instigated by a journalist at the Herald Sun who provided the cops with a “dossier” on the site. Garion has since made a statement saying no charges were laid, no hardware was taken and the police were “polite and amiable”. No doubt this won’t satisfy the Rupert Murdoch-run paper which will continue Read More …

ABC Nightline To Feature Porn For Women

On Thursday 11th June “Nightline” on ABC in the US will feature a story on porn for women. Candida Royalle and Nica Noelle from Sweet Sinner are due to be interviewed. If we’re lucky – very lucky – For The Girls MIGHT get a mention. Not sure on this, especially since being in Australia makes it harder to contact us due to differing time zones. I’m not sure what angle Read More …

Penis Art Exhibition Censored

The SMH reports the Venice Biennale have rejected a proposal for an art exhibition featuring symbolic drawings of famous genitals. Jacques Charlier, a Belgian artist, had wanted to show the visual puns, each with a written clue, inviting viewers to guess who owned what. For example, Christo’s resembled a parcel, with the clue “wraps in very special things”. The authorities rejected the proposal for fear of offending Venetians and the Read More …

I’m Not Really A Sex Blogger

On Friday SBS Australia screened a Channel 4 documentary called The Sex Blog Girls which originally aired in the UK in late 2007. The doco primarily looks at the story of The Girl With A One Track Mind, the sex blogger who was notoriously outed by the press in 2006 when her book was released. I’ve long admired the Girl and have been the grateful recipient of a link from Read More …