Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Today I’m feeling optimistic about the future of the internet in Australia. Grassroots group GetUp has finally launched a campaign against the clean feed. They’ve already collected 32,000 signatures in a little over 24 hours and the comments are running hot on their site. Apparently they’ve had more emails requesting a campaign on this issue than anything else. There are now protests planned on December 14 in a number of Read More …
It’s taken far too long but I’ve finally posted my video and report of my adventures at the Berlin Porn Film Festival. I was held up waiting for permission and excerpts from some of the films and unfortunately most of those I contacted didn’t reply. It’s a shame because I saw so much talent on display at the festival and I was eager to give those people a bit of Read More …
13 years ago today, I got married. It was a beautiful sunny spring day, blue skies and green grass, the river running high and brown after recent rain. We had the ceremony by the river in my home town, a sacred site to me, the place I had come to play, swim and have fun with my relatives since I was a baby. Surrounded by family and friends, I walked Read More …
This is not my topic but I thought I’d blog about it because it’s caused a stir. Tony Comstock’s distressed crusade against the insanity of Google’s “safe” filters continues. He’s found that, with SafeSearch turned on, Google delivers NO results for the word “clitoris” but 33 million results for the word “penis”. The sexism and stupidity of this speaks for itself, so I won’t write too much as other people Read More …
It’s Friday, I’ve been busy so I’m quickly putting up a nice pic of a naked guy with a hairy chest to keep you all happy. You’ll also be interested to know that For The Girls now has an exciting new tour, freshly minted and uploaded. I think it looks very swish and generally fabulous AND it’s now got fancy new flash video samples. It’s been a long time coming Read More …
Nearly three years ago I posted about The World’s Biggest Penis, citing Jonah Falcon as being the man with the biggest dick in the world. It seems that this post does well with Google for some reason. And today someone asked for a clip from the documentary of the same name. I can’t find one (apart from a million bittorrents which I’m NOT going to recommend) but I did discover Read More …
Good news: the folks at the Eros Association have decided to get serious and form a political party. They’re launching the Australian Sex Party at Sexpo in Melbourne on Thursday and are hoping to round up the 500 members required to make it officially recognised by the legal system. They’re aiming to put censorship onto the agenda, but they also want to talk about sex education, abortion, contraception, gender issues Read More …
The New York Times has a two-page feature article about the demise of Playgirl magazine. It features interviews with the three women who edited the mag and gives fairly frank details about what went wrong: So she and her fellow editors, all women in their 20s and all relative neophytes to the world of magazines — and pornography — resolved to fill Playgirl with something different. They aspired to bring Read More …
I just want to draw your attention to an issue that I hope will snowball: what’s being called the “Google No Fly List”. Numerous bloggers have found that the Google Suggest function – which auto-fills your searches with a number of possible phrases – excludes search terms relating to sex. Even if you’ve set your preferences to “do not filter results.” The tool doesn’t have a problem with suggesting white Read More …
Teat Beat of Sex: Kirby (“I was always afraid of big dicks…” Dirty Little Shorts: The Letter C (C is for cameltoe…) I saw a lot of fantastic short films at the Berlin Porn Film Festival. The two above featured in the “Fun Porn” program and, as you can see, they’re more fun than porn. Which kind of sums up the whole festival; anyone who attended thinking it would be Read More …
This is just a gorgeous, lovely pic. Enjoy. Full set is at For The Girls – of course!
11am today marked the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I. The above two photos were taken during my trip to France. The first one is the grave of an unknown soldier at the Adelaide Cemetary at Villers-Brettoneux. The second photo was taken at the official Australian memorial amid the fields of the Somme. It shows machine gun damage to one of the monuments, caused when the Nazis Read More …
Maybe I’m just more aware of porn festivals since I went to Berlin, but it seems they’re popping up everywhere. This weekend sees the second Pornotopia Feminist Porn Film Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Petra’s Feeling It and Erika’s Five Hot Stories For Her are featured, as is Audacia’s funny new short Dacia’s Love Machine. The weekend we got to Paris saw the first ever Paris Porn Film Festival… which Read More …
Thanks to The Girl for pointing me in the direction of Erotica Cover Watch. This is a new blog that asks the question: why are only women featured on the covers of erotic books? It’s a very good point and the topic naturally delves into the whole feminist issue of the male gaze and the continued way that straight women are still considered to be non-visual. It all comes down Read More …
Yay America. Now believe me, that’s a phrase I haven’t thought of in a very long time. It’s been a long, painful 8 years. Tonight, however, I’m standing with you, cheering you on, congratulating you on taking a step into a hopeful, friendly future. Someone on the news tonight said that Obama is now the closest thing to a “president of the world” and right now, that feels OK with Read More …