Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Just spreading the word about two academic researchers that need porn-loving women to fill out their surveys. Firstly, a Women’s Studies MA student called Hayley is asking feminists for their views on porn. Here’s you chance to kick Andrea Dworkin in the butt again, girls. Tell her what you think here. Secondly, PhD candidate Susana Mayer needs to know about the sexuality of post-menopausal women – especially those who like Read More …
An Australian dating site ran a competition to find the best-looking tradesman. Here’s the result. He actually looks more like a model, to be honest. Or a tradesman that has an awful lot of time to go to the gym. Still, not a bad piece of eye candy.
Good news for female porn fans in the US – Petra Joy has revealed on her blog that Feeling It is going to be distributed in America through Candida Royalle’s Femme line of films, and Adam and Eve. I know Petra’s had a hell of a time trying to get her films out to the public, with numerous potential distributors either going broke or else trying to impose inappropriate ideas Read More …
Yes, yes, I know I already wrote that about the Rated X festival in Amsterdam. But this is true too – I really, really wish I could be in New York to enjoy the Cinekink erotic film festival. For a start, Jennifer Lyon Bell’s amazing film Matinee is showing on Friday night, as well as a collection of female-friendly shorts collected under the banner of “Wanton Female Desire.” And of Read More …
Apparently the lunatics from XXXChurch will be handing out bibles at Sexpo in Brisbane over the weekend. I’m very very tempted to go and protest their protest. Maybe hand out flyers about the dangers of church addiction. These silly bastards should have some kind of counter to their insanity. Although I suspect most people going to Sexpo will just laugh at them.
Do you remember your first introduction to sex education? I found myself pondering this as I read about the new documentary The Joy Of Sex Education. The doco looks at the history of sex ed films, from the earliest “look out for VD” propaganda from WW1 to the hippy-influenced fun of the 70s through to today. It occurred to me that there was never a moment in my life where Read More …
So this week has seen Clive Hamilton come out hyperventilating in support of the ill-considered mandatory internet filter – originally his idea, by the way. His arguments are flawed in a lot of ways and I recommend the excellent Somebody Think Of The Children blog for further analysis. To be honest I’ve been trying to stop thinking about it because it, and the comments section, inundated with nonsense as a Read More …
I hate shower curtains. It’s been scientifically proved that the difference in pressure between the warm inside of the shower and the cold outside will always make the plastic blow in and stick to your leg. Still, I’m finding it a lot harder to hate the Shower Boyfriend curtain. Mainly because it features exactly the kind of hot sexy guy you’d want sticking to your leg. It’s like a big Read More …
The Independent has a he-said, she-said article discussing women and desire. Much of it rehashes the New York Times article from a couple of weeks ago, but I felt the need to blog these two paragraphs, just because I liked the sentiment. So female desire can be a paradox – as Prof Chivers reports, we may want to be ravished roughly in an alley and also want someone who can Read More …
I’m a bit late with this but I wanted to direct your attention to Violet Blue’s SFGate column criticising the mainstream porn industry’s ongoing continuation of racist stereotypes in their movies. Her article quotes several feminist porn stars and directors including Madison Young and Shine Louise Houston. She’s also made a number of further comments on her blog. While we all understand that sexual fantasies are often politically incorrect, it’s Read More …
Almost another week gone without a post. The last few days have been rather stressful, mainly because my husband had a seizure on Wednesday. Beyond the initial adrenaline-laced shock of that day, I’ve been busy visiting doctors and generally looking after him, not to mention doing a lot of online research into epilepsy. We’re both OK now, but it’s going to mess with our lives a bit. For me, the Read More …
My poor blog has been neglected for a week now, but I like to think I’ve got a good excuse. I’m currently editing the footage from my first ever video shoot which occurred over the weekend. It involved a heap of planning beforehand and a very busy couple of days in the city. It was my first time directing and working behind the camera. I’m pleased to say that whole Read More …
Bam. Two negative, almost hateful diatribes against female-focused erotic fiction books in as many days. Instead of being condemned as a cheapjack book slut pandering to male fantasies, you will be profiled in the serious press, with a photograph of you dressed demurely, and women will not be ashamed to be seen reading your book on the Tube. Feminist websites will praise you for “provoking debate in intellectual circles” and Read More …
Behold: Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies, the Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States. That’s a whole lotta capital letters, but if you skimmed over that last bit it didn’t matter much. The main thing is that a bunch of online companies and government bodies got together and tried to determine Read More …
I can’t believe I haven’t read this before. I discovered it via a short story by Cory Doctorow and found myself nodding along as I read. This Declaration was written 13 years ago but it still resonates now, especially as Australia, China, Germany, the UK and US continue to plan ways to censor the internet. I think we Netizens need to reaffirm the ideas behind this: that the internet is Read More …