Ms Naughty looks at porn for women, feminism and sex in general
Just wanted to add a further post about the recent survey of the sex lives of Australian women (previous post here) News.com.au has an article unfortunately titled “The sad sexual secrets of women” which is rather misleading since the survey has plenty of positive aspects to it, including an increase in masturbation, a desire for more consideration from male partners and a general urge to explore one’s sexuality. I wanted Read More …
I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled… Today I turn 35. This is freaking me out a little bit. 35 feels like a marker, a turning point. When you’re 35, you can’t be classified as “young” anymore. I’ve tipped over the edge, heading for middle age. That’s pretty scary, especially because in my mind I’m still only 25. I don’t think anyone Read More …
Last week I reviewed the new erotica for women book Dirty Girls for For The Girls. In a previous post I expressed concern at the cliquey comments on the back, but I’m pleased to say that the inside is fabulous. Don’t judge a book by its cover! The collection is chock full of naughty sexual adventures starring women who aren’t afraid to enjoy themselves. These are dirty girls indeed, greedy Read More …
I’ve been writing a lot of very wordy posts lately, getting off topic and not giving you nearly enough porn. So here’s a nice dirty pic for you to enjoy. It’s also given me an excuse to offer up a Google-friendly title for the post. And, looking at it, I think it’s a good example of porn for women because a) It shows a woman receiving pleasure and that is Read More …
A few months ago I had a wonderful experience when I went swimming with a pod of dolphins in an ocean channel. Since then I’ve discovered it was a bit of a foolish activity as the water was very murky and there could have easily been bull sharks in the canal. And now I read this article, which says that dolphins have been known to injure people swimming with them. Read More …
The Ask Sam blog at the Sydney Morning Herald has published this post entitled “Why Women Hate Porn.” Unfortunately the article doesn’t actually discuss the whys and wherefores of any negative female reactions to porn. Rather it points out recent statistics that one in three Australian women regularly watch porn. And then the author asserts that women have taken up porn watching because it’s trendy, or because they want to Read More …
Another day, another book, another news item and survey that says that women like porn. A book called The Sex Lives of Australian Women says that 1 in 4 Aussie chicks will look at porn at least once a month. The book is based on a survey of 2000 self-selected internet participants. Naturally, I’m not surprised at this 1-in-4 statistic, which seems to be the similar to the 27-30% figure Read More …
Writers! Please! This is a call for more submissions to For The Girls – both to our regular erotic fiction and Wicked Ways sections and also our erotic story contest. I realise that it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere and that you guys are probably more interesting in BBQs and swimming and not doing a damned thing, but please, please, can you spare a few thousand words of steamy, arousing, Read More …
I just have to blog about this news story because I find it fascinating. The New York Times has a piece about the sworn virgins of Albania. These are women who took an oath of virginity and took on the role of male head of the family when all their men died. For centuries, in the closed-off and conservative society of rural northern Albania, swapping genders was considered a practical Read More …
Just a quick post. Amber Rhea has hosted the latest Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy with a fab post here. It’s chock a blog (yes, that was a typo but I like it so I’ll leave it) full of great posts about the intersection of sex and feminism. And yes, I’m listed in there too. If you’re after some well written, thought-provoking reading about sex, check it out.
A man in Western Australia has been arrested for receiving porn movies through the mail from overseas. His house was raided by customs officials who seized more than 100 DVDs and he is expected to be charged with breaching importation regulations for “pornography and objectionable material”, listed thus: Includes computer games, computer generated images, films, interactive games and publications that describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, Read More …
Petra Joy reports on her blog that her latest film Feeling It is up for two major awards at this year’s International Erotic Film Festival in Madrid, Spain (FICEB). The first nomination is for Best Film and the second is for Best Director. She’s up against heavyweights from the adult industry including films from Vivid and Evil Angel. It’s quite an achievement for an indie director and it’s also a Read More …
These images are from Wordle, a site that analyses text to see which words are used most often. The first image is made up of my del.icio.us tags. The second one is the result of taking all the posts on the index page (back to 19 May) and seeing what I talked about the most. I guess there’s not many surprises here.
An article in the New York Times and other media sources today cites new research that suggests straight women aren’t necessarily turned on by naked men. The study, by Meredith Chivers from the Center for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto, measured the genital responses of women to various images. It found that women were often more turned on by other women, although the researchers concluded that Read More …
If you’re not already familiar with them, this is from the BBC comedy series The Goodies. Pretty much every Australian kid who grew up in the 70s and 80s watched these guys at 6pm on weeknights on the ABC. They had a fairly large influence on my sense of humour. This sketch was part of an episode where they lampooned Mary Whitehouse, the conservative nutjob who did her best to Read More …